Is ligshtshot.site legit or a scam?
Typosquat clone of Lightshot screenshot service flagged malicious by 8 antivirus engines; 341-day-old domain with hidden ownership and confirmed malware indicators.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
Brand impersonation — not the real site
8 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The captured image contains no web page structure, navigation, forms, or text — only a meme-style graphic, making visual scam analysis inconclusive.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot shows a close-up image of a dark cartoon/meme-style creature face with wide eyes and no web page UI elements visible
MT Intelligence
The domain ligshtshot.site is a deliberate misspelling of prntscr.com, the official Lightshot screenshot-sharing service. Our antivirus network detected malicious signatures: ADMINUSLabs, alphaMountain.ai, Chong Lua Dao, CRDF, CyRadar, and Fortinet all flagged the page as malware or malicious. The page title and content directly imitate the legitimate Lightshot service, a classic clone-site tactic. Independent threat analysis assigned a 75/100 threat score and identified contact with a-ads.com, a known malicious domain. The domain was registered only 341 days ago with hidden ownership information, and independent trust aggregators rate it at 25% trust with explicit warnings. Historical precedent shows Lightshot typosquats have been used to distribute malware. The combination of antivirus detections, clone-site structure, hidden ownership, and threat-intelligence flagging leaves no ambiguity.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for ligshtshot.site, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain created July 2025 (under 1 year old), expires July 2026, Whois owner data hidden.
- Hybrid Analysis of URL flagged with Threat Score 75/100, malicious domain indicator, contact with a-ads.com (identified as malicious), and abusive TLD usage.
- ScamDoc rates 25% trust (Poor), explicitly states "You should be wary" based on technical criteria including new domain and hidden ownership.
- Reclame Aqui analysis: critical scenario, recommends caution before any purchase, company not registered.
- Site presents as "Screenshot by Lightshot" with cookie notice, matching the popular screenshot tool whose official upload/share domain is app.prntscr.com.
- No positive reviews or business registration records located; used in Twitch/Instagram streamer content via shortened links.
- Historical precedent of Lightshot typosquatting/phishing sites distributing malware (e.g. 2015 Malwarebytes report on similar fakes).
- Hybrid Analysisopen
"Threat Score: 75/100. Malicious domain detected... CONTACTED DOMAIN: "a-ads.com" has been identified as malicious source... Domain: "ligshtshot.site" possible high risk indicator. Domain uses TLD that is commonly abused for malicious purpos"
- ScamDocopen
"Poor Trust Score: 25%. You should be wary. Domain creation date: 07/09/2025 (Less than one year). Owner identification in the Whois: hidden."
- Reclame Aqui Detectoropen
"Cenário crítico. Recomendamos cautela antes de comprar. Empresa não cadastrada no Reclame Aqui."
Page title "Screenshot by Lightshot" and content mimic the official Lightshot screenshot sharing service (official at app.prntscr.com/prnt.sc); domain spelling variation of "lightshot"
Our web research identified three scam reports and threat analyses. Hybrid Analysis flagged the domain with a 75/100 threat score, identified it as a malicious domain, and noted contact with a-ads.com (a known malicious source) and abusive TLD usage. Independent trust aggregators rated the domain at 25% trust, explicitly stating 'You should be wary' based on new domain registration and hidden ownership. A Brazilian consumer-protection site classified the scenario as critical and recommended caution, noting the company is not registered in their database. No positive reviews or legitimate business registrations were found. Historical precedent shows Lightshot typosquats have been used to distribute malware.
Scam Network Intelligence
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://ligshtshot.site/
- 2200https://ligshtshot.site/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 scam-type patterns detected
2 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Domain is a typosquat of prntscr.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- Domain is a typosquat of prntscr.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing / data-harvesting.
2 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Domain is a typosquat of prntscr.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- Domain is a typosquat of prntscr.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing / data-harvesting.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with ligshtshot.site
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
- Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
- OpenReport the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags ligshtshot.site as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — ligshtshot.site scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. ligshtshot.site presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 57 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- ligshtshot.site is 11 months old, registered on 7/9/2025 through NameSilo, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 9 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged ligshtshot.site as malicious or suspicious (8 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. ligshtshot.site is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- ligshtshot.site resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 15, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around ligshtshot.site have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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