Is linkvertise.de safe?
http://linkvertise.de/
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How we checked
Coverage: partial · 2 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (58 of 92 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading · limited: did not fully complete
- page capture: completed
- domain records · not run: did not fully complete
- web research: completed
Linkvertise.de is a redirect to the Linkvertise link-monetisation platform, with a stale antivirus flag but no current threat warning
linkvertise.de is not a standalone site: it immediately sends the browser to linkvertise.com, the well-known link-shortening and ad-monetisation service that creators use to gate links behind advertising. The only adverse technical item is a stale antivirus observation from one engine family, while the browser threat feed currently reports no threat and the saved TLS check shows a valid encrypted connection. The site's own contact and policy pages were not read in full, so the operator's identity and customer-facing terms remain unverified. That combination — a legitimate-looking redirect to a known ad-gating platform, clean current checks, but an old detection and unreviewed site pages — fits a Low Risk score rather than a clean bill of health.
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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. 2 findings 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.
- MinorThe page redirected the browser to an unrelated external domain.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the domain.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
- SupportsThe hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across zero saved reports.
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
linkvertise.de is not a standalone site: it immediately sends the browser to linkvertise.com, the well-known link-shortening and ad-monetisation service that creators use to gate links behind advertising. The only adverse technical item is a stale antivirus observation from one engine family, while the browser threat feed currently reports no threat and the saved TLS check shows a valid encrypted connection. The site's own contact and policy pages were not read in full, so the operator's identity and customer-facing terms remain unverified. That combination — a legitimate-looking redirect to a known ad-gating platform, clean current checks, but an old detection and unreviewed site pages — fits a Low Risk score rather than a clean bill of health.
A redirect shell for an ad-supported link platform
The domain linkvertise.de does not serve its own content. The saved navigation record shows the browser being sent from http://linkvertise.de/ to https://linkvertise.com/, the primary domain of the Linkvertise service. The visual capture of the destination page shows Linkvertise branding and a 'Do Not Process My Personal Information' link, consistent with a commercial platform rather than a personal or informational site.
Linkvertise is a link-monetisation service: creators wrap a link and visitors pass through an advertising step before reaching the destination. That model is legal and widely used, but it means the visitor's experience is defined by the ads and intermediate pages the platform serves, not by anything on linkvertise.de itself.
Clean current checks, one stale detection, unread operator pages
On the technical side the picture is mixed but not alarming. One independent antivirus family returned an adverse result, and the saved observation is marked stale, so the detection is real but its timing is uncertain. Against that, the browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection. The hosting IP carries an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across zero saved reports.
On the operator side, the site's own contact details were not reviewed because the page text was not read in full. That means we cannot confirm who runs the service, what its terms say, or how it handles complaints. The registration-related research item is a DNS lookup record and does not establish ownership or a registration date.
The commercial link graph shows a cross-site reference from linkvertise.com to goo.gl, a URL-shortening destination. That is consistent with a link-handling platform, not with a checkout or payment flow, and no affiliate or order path was observed on this domain.
What a visitor actually experiences
A visitor who opens linkvertise.de is redirected to linkvertise.com. From there, the platform's purpose is to place advertising between the visitor and a creator's link, so the practical exposure is to ad content and intermediate pages rather than to a direct download or payment form on this domain.
The only cross-site commercial reference captured is a link from linkvertise.com to goo.gl, a shortening service. No order path, subscription flow, or payment collection was observed on linkvertise.de in the saved evidence.
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
3/ 92
detectionsSaved analysis from August 22, 2026 - stale
3 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 2
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 92
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| ADMINUSLabsMalicious | malicious |
| ESETMalicious | malware |
| alphaMountain.aiSuspicious | suspicious |
All 92 engine results
- ADMINUSLabs - Malicious
- ESET - malware - Malicious
- alphaMountain.ai - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - 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 - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- Cluster25 - Unrated
- 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
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Unrated
- Fortinet - 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 - Unrated
- 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.aiSuspicious
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
Linkvertise - Do Not Process My Personal Information
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Linkvertise - Do Not Process My Personal Information
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
Linkvertise | The Search Engine for exclusive Content!
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Linkvertise | The Search Engine for exclusive Content!
What we observed
Saved browser evidence recorded cross domain landing.
What independent research found
1 external finding was saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
2 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
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The page redirected the browser to an unrelated external domain.
- 021 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.
- 03The browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the domain.
Web research findings
Independent findings for linkvertise.de, 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 linkvertise.de. 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.
- Domainlinkvertise.de
- Redirects tolinkvertise.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesfonts.gstatic.com · goo.gl
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
Domain & Encryption
This is the certificate of linkvertise.com, the site this URL lands on. Certificate issued for linkvertise.com.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it. This is the address of linkvertise.com, the site this URL lands on.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
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.
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://linkvertise.de/
- 2200https://linkvertise.com/cross-domain
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 contentpartial
- 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.
The page redirected the browser to an unrelated external domain.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 3 of 92 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Aug 22, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 17, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Limited | No saved finding | this scan · Oct 17, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 17, 2026 |
| Independent research | 1 independent finding was saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 17, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result3 of 92 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Aug 22, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 17, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 17, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 17, 2026
- Independent research
- Result1 independent finding was saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 17, 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 linkvertise.de a scam or is it safe?
Is linkvertise.de safe to use?
Has linkvertise.de been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is linkvertise.de on any phishing or malware blacklists?
Does linkvertise.de have a valid SSL certificate?
Where is linkvertise.de hosted?
How often is the linkvertise.de report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Linkvertise.de is a redirect to the Linkvertise link-monetisation platform, with a stale antivirus flag but no current threat warning
linkvertise.de is not a standalone site: it immediately sends the browser to linkvertise.com, the well-known link-shortening and ad-monetisation service that creators use to gate links behind advertising. The only adverse technical item is a stale antivirus observation from one engine family, while the browser threat feed currently reports no threat and the saved TLS check shows a valid encrypted connection. The site's own contact and policy pages were not read in full, so the operator's identity and customer-facing terms remain unverified. That combination — a legitimate-looking redirect to a known ad-gating platform, clean current checks, but an old detection and unreviewed site pages — fits a Low Risk score rather than a clean bill of health.
09 · Community
Community
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