Is kitetravel.net safe?

http://kitetravel.net/

Low RiskStatus

Coveragestrong3 of 4 applicable core capabilities

Verdict

Kite Travel appears to be an established travel-services website, but bookings carry notable confirmation and refund conditions.

The website presents Kite Travel and advertises a visa invitation letter service, while also listing phone, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook contact channels. Current technical checks found a valid encrypted connection and no threat warning. The Low Risk score reflects a stale suspicious detection and the site's warning that payment does not automatically guarantee a reservation and that airline or hotel refund rules apply.

Use normal caution before paying: obtain written confirmation of the exact reservation and review the applicable airline or hotel cancellation and refund rules. Independently verify the claimed travel licence if it is important to your decision.
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Calibrated safety spectrum

Where this site sits

  1. Dangerous1–20
  2. High Risk21–44
  3. Moderate Risk45–69
  4. Low Risk70–84
  5. Safe85–100

The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.

01 · Investigation Brief

Investigation Brief

The website presents Kite Travel and advertises a visa invitation letter service, while also listing phone, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook contact channels. Current technical checks found a valid encrypted connection and no threat warning. The Low Risk score reflects a stale suspicious detection and the site's warning that payment does not automatically guarantee a reservation and that airline or hotel refund rules apply.

Travel-service presence and contact channels

The observed page identifies itself as Kite Travel and promotes a visa invitation letter service. It publishes a telephone number and links visitors to WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook.

The company states that it is registered with the Afghan Tour Organization under licence ATO-KBL-1445. The supplied evidence establishes that this claim appears on the site, but does not independently verify the registration.

Technical checks are reassuring, but customer terms require care

The current checks found no threat warning and confirmed an encrypted connection. One saved antivirus observation marked the URL suspicious, but that result is stale and should not outweigh the fresher checks by itself.

The more relevant customer risk is contractual: the site says a purchase does not automatically guarantee a reservation, confirmation may take up to two business days, and customers are bound by the refund policies of the airline or hotel involved.

Why the score is 76

The score combines saved deterministic evidence with the grounded analysis available for this report. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.

02 · Security Evidence

Security evidence

Collected signals and independent provider data for this URL.

Antivirus Engines

1/ 91

detections

Saved result - stale

1 engine flagged this URL

Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.

Malicious
0
Suspicious
1
Total
91
Adverse antivirus results
EngineFinding
GridinsoftSuspicioussuspicious
All 91 engine results
  • Gridinsoft - suspicious - Suspicious
  • 0xSI_f33d - unrated - Clean
  • Abusix - clean - Clean
  • Acronis - clean - Clean
  • ADMINUSLabs - clean - Clean
  • AILabs (MONITORAPP) - clean - Clean
  • AlienVault - clean - Clean
  • alphaMountain.ai - unrated - Clean
  • AlphaSOC - unrated - Clean
  • Antiy-AVL - clean - Clean
  • ArcSight Threat Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • AutoShun - unrated - Clean
  • Bfore.Ai PreCrime - unrated - Clean
  • BitDefender - clean - Clean
  • Bkav - unrated - Clean
  • BlockList - clean - Clean
  • Blueliv - clean - Clean
  • Certego - clean - Clean
  • ChainPatrol - unrated - Clean
  • Chong Lua Dao - clean - Clean
  • CINS Army - clean - Clean
  • CRDF - clean - Clean
  • Criminal IP - unrated - Clean
  • CSIS Security Group - unrated - Clean
  • CTX AI - clean - Clean
  • Cyan - unrated - Clean
  • Cyble - clean - Clean
  • CyRadar - clean - Clean
  • desenmascara.me - clean - Clean
  • DNS8 - unrated - Clean
  • Dr.Web - clean - Clean
  • EmergingThreats - clean - Clean
  • Emsisoft - clean - Clean
  • Ermes - unrated - Clean
  • ESET - clean - Clean
  • ESTsecurity - clean - Clean
  • Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - clean - Clean
  • Fortinet - clean - Clean
  • Fortra - unrated - Clean
  • G-Data - clean - Clean
  • GCP Abuse Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • Google Safe Browsing - clean - Clean
  • GreenSnow - clean - Clean
  • GreyNoise - unrated - Clean
  • Guardpot - unrated - Clean
  • Heimdal Security - clean - Clean
  • Hunt.io Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • IPsum - clean - Clean
  • Juniper Networks - clean - Clean
  • K7AntiVirus - unrated - Clean
  • Kaspersky - clean - Clean
  • LevelBlue - clean - Clean
  • Lionic - clean - Clean
  • Lumu - unrated - Clean
  • Malwared - clean - Clean
  • MalwarePatrol - clean - Clean
  • MalwareURL - unrated - Clean
  • Mimecast - unrated - Clean
  • Netcraft - unrated - Clean
  • OpenPhish - clean - Clean
  • PhishFort - unrated - Clean
  • Phishing Database - clean - Clean
  • Phishtank - clean - Clean
  • PREBYTES - clean - Clean
  • PrecisionSec - unrated - Clean
  • Quick Heal - clean - Clean
  • Quttera - clean - Clean
  • Rising - clean - Clean
  • SafeToOpen - unrated - Clean
  • Sangfor - clean - Clean
  • Sansec eComscan - unrated - Clean
  • Scantitan - clean - Clean
  • SCUMWARE.org - clean - Clean
  • Seclookup - clean - Clean
  • Snort IP sample list - unrated - Clean
  • SOCRadar - unrated - Clean
  • Sophos - clean - Clean
  • StopForumSpam - clean - Clean
  • Sucuri SiteCheck - clean - Clean
  • ThreatHive - clean - Clean
  • URLhaus - clean - Clean
  • URLQuery - unrated - Clean
  • Viettel Threat Intelligence - clean - Clean
  • VIPRE - unrated - Clean
  • ViriBack - clean - Clean
  • VX Vault - clean - Clean
  • Webroot - clean - Clean
  • Xcitium Verdict Cloud - clean - Clean
  • Yandex Safebrowsing - clean - Clean
  • ZeroCERT - clean - Clean
  • ZeroFox - unrated - Clean

Security Scans

Browser Threat Feed
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.

What we observed

CAPTURED PAGE
kitetravel.net
What our review noticed on this page
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

Kite Travel

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    Kite Travel

03 · Investigation Story

Investigation story

The behavior, reputation, and operator evidence that explains how this site may affect a visitor.
  1. What the site claims

    Visit Afghanistan | Guided Tours

  2. What we observed

    Saved browser evidence recorded cross domain landing.

  3. What independent research found

    1 external finding were saved and compared with the page evidence.

  4. What remains unverified

    1 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.

What kind of site and risk is this?

Threat category

No threat category confirmed

Service and business model

Financial Service

Transaction

Observed behavior

Cross Domain Landing

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 01The registrable domain is 1,742 days old, providing limited evidence of continuity.
  2. 02Fresh checks found no threat warning and a valid encrypted connection.
  3. 03Fresh checks found no threat warning and a valid encrypted connection.

Web research findings

Independent findings for kitetravel.net, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.

Business registration
No public record found
Could not match the site to a registered company — common for small sites.
Clone check
No clone detected
The completed research found no supported clone indicator.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The completed research found no supported look-alike match.
Web mentions
No scam reports found
The completed search returned no sourced scam reports or complaints.

No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for kitetravel.net. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
ListedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

04 · Domain & Infrastructure

Domain & infrastructure

Timeline · identity · encryption · redirects · hosting

The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.

Infrastructure map

How the saved page connected to the wider web.

  1. Domainkitetravel.net
  2. Redirects tokitetravel.net
  3. Hosted byBrander Group Inc.
  4. Referencesapi.tiles.mapbox.com · googletagmanager.com

Domain Timeline

  1. Dec 23, 2021
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 4.8 years old when this review was saved.

  2. Sep 30, 2026
    Saved security review — Reviewed — inconclusive

    The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.

kitetravel.net has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.

Contact Verification

Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.

What We Found
Has a contact email on its own domain
Emails on site's domaininfo@kitetravel.net
Phone numbers+93 790 915 555
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles3
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
  • Contact email on the site's own domain (info@kitetravel.net).
  • Phone number listed (+93 790 915 555).
  • Links to 3 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age5 years old
Registrar123-Reg Limited
RegisteredDec 23, 2021
ExpiresDec 23, 2026
Owner privacyUnknown
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YE2
ExpiresNov 9, 2026 (39d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingBrander Group Inc.
Server locationUS
Web serverhcdn
Platform / CMSThinkRank 2.11.0

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://kitetravel.net/
  • 2200https://kitetravel.net/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPBrander Group Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Referenced Domains

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

Coverage, provenance, and source freshness remain separate so a missing check is never mistaken for a clean result.
  1. Antiviruspartial
  2. Browser threat feedcomplete
  3. Page contentcomplete
  4. Analysiscomplete
  5. Visual evidencecomplete
Completed analysis

The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.

Technical threat

unknown

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

Additional evidence review

Operator / customer risk

unknown

Complaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.

No confirmed evidence in this dimension.

Source coverage and freshness

Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.

Antivirus
Result1 of 91 engines flagged
CompletionLimited
FindingAdverse
Freshnessstale fallback · Sep 30, 2026
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Page content
ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Visual evidence
Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Independent research
Result1 independent finding were saved
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

Verify before you trust

We couldn't gather enough signal for a confident verdict — tread carefully.

  1. Find the company through independent channels

    Search for the business on LinkedIn, an official registry (Companies House, OpenCorporates, SEC EDGAR), or via the brand's known social channels. If you can't trace a real entity, that itself is a red flag.

  2. Never pay by crypto, gift card, or bank transfer

    If the site forces an irreversible payment method, stop. Cards and PayPal give you chargeback protection — irreversible methods don't.

  3. Ask the forum

    Post the URL in the MalwareTips Scam Reports forum — experienced members often recognise patterns immediately.

    Open

07 · Safety FAQ

Safety FAQ

Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.

Is kitetravel.net a scam or is it safe?
kitetravel.net has a Safety Score of 76/100 (Low Risk). The saved checks found no material threat, but the report did not meet every requirement for the highest Safe tier. Use normal caution and independently verify the operator before irreversible payments or unusually sensitive actions.
Is kitetravel.net safe to use?
kitetravel.net has a Safety Score of 76/100 (Low Risk). Analysis coverage is strong at 83%. Normal caution; verify sensitive actions.
Has kitetravel.net been flagged by antivirus engines?
Yes. 1 of 91 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged kitetravel.net as suspicious. Even a single detection from a reputable engine is a meaningful warning, and multiple detections rarely happen by accident.
Is kitetravel.net on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — kitetravel.net is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
How old is the kitetravel.net domain?
kitetravel.net is 4.8 years old, registered on December 23, 2021 through 123-Reg Limited. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
Does kitetravel.net have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — kitetravel.net presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE2, valid for another 39 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
Where is kitetravel.net hosted?
kitetravel.net resolves to an IP operated by Brander Group Inc. in US (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
How often is the kitetravel.net report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on September 30, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about kitetravel.net has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.

08 · Final Verdict

Final verdict

The saved conclusion, decisive evidence, and practical action in one final view.
Verdict score
76/100
Low Risk

Kite Travel appears to be an established travel-services website, but bookings carry notable confirmation and refund conditions.

Saved capturekitetravel.netCapture-safe
Captured during this scan. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

The website presents Kite Travel and advertises a visa invitation letter service, while also listing phone, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook contact channels. Current technical checks found a valid encrypted connection and no threat warning. The Low Risk score reflects a stale suspicious detection and the site's warning that payment does not automatically guarantee a reservation and that airline or hotel refund rules apply.

Recommended actionUse normal caution before paying: obtain written confirmation of the exact reservation and review the applicable airline or hotel cancellation and refund rules. Independently verify the claimed travel licence if it is important to your decision.
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