Is kubwafive-safaris.com safe?
http://kubwafive-safaris.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 91 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Kubwa Five Safaris is an established safari tour operator whose site is served over unencrypted HTTP and carries a stale phishing flag.
Kubwa Five Safaris presents itself as a tour operator selling safari packages across Africa, with a contact email on its own domain and a listed phone number. The domain is over eight years old and the browser threat feed reports no current threat warning, but the scanned address was served over plain HTTP with no redirect to HTTPS, and a saved antivirus observation records one engine's phishing classification. No fake-shop kit, affiliate funnel, or cross-domain order path was found, so the score reflects a real-looking business with unresolved technical and historical concerns rather than a confirmed scam.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 72/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. 1 finding pulled the score down; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Strong1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 3232 days old, indicating a long-standing registration consistent with an established business.
- SupportsThe site lists a contact email on its own domain and a phone number, which are ordinary legitimacy signals for a tour operator.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the site at scan time.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
Kubwa Five Safaris presents itself as a tour operator selling safari packages across Africa, with a contact email on its own domain and a listed phone number. The domain is over eight years old and the browser threat feed reports no current threat warning, but the scanned address was served over plain HTTP with no redirect to HTTPS, and a saved antivirus observation records one engine's phishing classification. No fake-shop kit, affiliate funnel, or cross-domain order path was found, so the score reflects a real-looking business with unresolved technical and historical concerns rather than a confirmed scam.
A long-standing safari operator with a direct booking path
The registrable domain is 3232 days old, placing its registration around 2017, which is consistent with an established tour business rather than a throwaway storefront. The site lists a contact email on its own domain, info@kubwafive-safaris.com, and a phone number, +256 774313798, both of which are the kind of details a genuine operator publishes.
The commercial model is transactional: the site carries a 'Payments Details' page and links to its own domain for that purpose, indicating visitors are expected to pay the operator directly for trips. The page also links out to Facebook, X/Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Tripadvisor and LinkedIn, which are ordinary social and review presences for a travel business rather than an affiliate or redirect funnel.
The site's own copy describes operating in 11 African countries and invites visitors to plan a 'perfect journey', which matches the safari-tour framing rather than a generic dropshipping or fake-shop template.
Unencrypted connection and a stale phishing classification
Although a valid TLS certificate exists for the host, the scanned address was served over plain HTTP with no redirect to HTTPS, so the connection to it was not encrypted. That is a real technical weakness for anyone entering personal or payment details, even though it does not by itself prove malicious intent.
A saved antivirus observation records that one independent engine classified the domain as phishing. The observation is marked stale, so it should be treated as a historical signal to verify rather than a current detection, and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning at scan time.
No fake-shop kit markers, cross-domain order paths, affiliate relationships, or confirmed risk mechanics were found in the evidence, so the concerns above are the main reasons the score sits in the low-risk band rather than the safe band.
Why the score is 72
The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
2/ 91
detectionsSaved analysis from September 18, 2026 - stale
2 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 1
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 91
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| FortinetMalicious | phishing |
| alphaMountain.aiSuspicious | suspicious |
All 91 engine results
- Fortinet - phishing - Malicious
- alphaMountain.ai - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Unrated
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Clean
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiBusiness/Economy, Suspicious, Travel
- BitDefenderfilesharing
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekertravel
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
Kubwa Five Safaris
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Kubwa Five Safaris
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Top African Safari Tours - Kubwa Five Safaris
- Meta description
Discover unforgettable African safari adventures with Kubwa Five Safaris. Explore Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda & more with expert guides
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/aboutRead
- Terms/terms-and-conditions/Read
- Contact page/contactRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Top African Safari Tours - Kubwa Five Safaris
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
1 of the 6 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
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The registrable domain is 3232 days old, indicating a long-standing registration consistent with an established business.
- 02The site lists a contact email on its own domain and a phone number, which are ordinary legitimacy signals for a tour operator.
- 03The browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the site at scan time.
Web research findings
Independent findings for kubwafive-safaris.com, 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.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for kubwafive-safaris.com. 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.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
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.
- Domainkubwafive-safaris.com
- Redirects tokubwafive-safaris.com
- Hosted byAMANKA SARL
- Referencesgmpg.org · googletagmanager.com
Domain Timeline
- Dec 24, 2017Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 8 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 31, 2026Saved security review — Rated Low Risk
This saved scan found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
kubwafive-safaris.com has operated for years and this review found no material threat — a long 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.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (info@kubwafive-safaris.com).
- Phone number listed (+256 774313798).
- Links to 21 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for www.kubwafive-safaris.com.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
- Google AdSense
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
suspiciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, 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.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 2 of 91 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Sep 18, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 31, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 31, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 31, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 31, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result2 of 91 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Sep 18, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 31, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 31, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 31, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 31, 2026
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 kubwafive-safaris.com a scam or is it safe?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Kubwa Five Safaris is an established safari tour operator whose site is served over unencrypted HTTP and carries a stale phishing flag.
Kubwa Five Safaris presents itself as a tour operator selling safari packages across Africa, with a contact email on its own domain and a listed phone number. The domain is over eight years old and the browser threat feed reports no current threat warning, but the scanned address was served over plain HTTP with no redirect to HTTPS, and a saved antivirus observation records one engine's phishing classification. No fake-shop kit, affiliate funnel, or cross-domain order path was found, so the score reflects a real-looking business with unresolved technical and historical concerns rather than a confirmed scam.
09 · Community
Community
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