Is markermuse.shop safe?
http://markermuse.shop/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (62 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
markermuse.shop is a Cult Pens look-alike storefront on a 90-day-old domain whose only contact address belongs to the real UK retailer
The site describes itself as Cult Pens, the UK pen retailer, complete with the brand logo, the 'Shop over 24,000 premium pens' pitch and a 'SUMMER SALE' banner, but it runs on markermuse.shop, a domain registered only 90 days ago. Its sole contact mailbox is support@cultpens.com — the real retailer's domain, not the store's own — and the pages are built on the storefront of a known brand-clone shop network. Fourteen of 93 security engines flag the domain as malicious or phishing. A shopper who enters card details here is dealing with an unidentified operator impersonating a real shop, so the score sits in the Dangerous band.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan18 antivirus engines flagged this URLBitDefender, Chong Lua Dao, CRDF, CyRadar, Forcepoint ThreatSeekerAt a glance
Saved with this scan; each value is explained in the sections below.
Domain age
3 months old
Registered Aug 11, 2026Expires Aug 11, 2027Certificate
Valid
Expires Jan 17, 2027 (68d)Hosting
United States (US)
Beijing Ruihao Kai Yuan Technology Co., LtdPopularity
Not in the Cloudflare Radar top list
Antivirus
18/62
18 antivirus engines flagged this URLSafe Browsing
Not flagged
Not flagged on major threat listsCommunity
No reviews yet
Checked
Nov 10, 2026
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 18/100
Dangerous covers scores 1–20. 5 findings pulled the score down; 1 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Decisive13 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
- StrongThe store's only contact address is on another company's domain (cultpens.com), and its pages are built on the storefront of a known brand-clone shop network.
- ModerateThe store's only contact mailbox is support@cultpens.com, on the impersonated brand's domain, and its pages are built on a known brand-clone shop network's storefront.
- MinorThe domain is 90 days old while the storefront carries the Cult Pens brand identity.
- MinorNo email on the site's own domain, no phone number and no postal address are visible, and no operator registration is disclosed.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no warning and the TLS certificate is valid, so the connection is encrypted and not blocked by that feed.
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).
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Act quickly: the first hours matter most for a chargeback.
- Call your bank or card issuer now
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- Change any password you entered
If you entered a password on markermuse.shop, change it there and anywhere you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. Keep screenshots, order confirmations and messages as evidence.
- Report the site
Reports help get scam sites taken down faster and warn other people.
- Report the domain to its registrar
Dynadot Inc. takes abuse reports at abuse@dynadot.com (+1.6502620100). Include the address and what happened.
- Ignore anyone offering to recover your money
"Recovery" services or agents who contact you, or ask for a fee up front, are almost always a second scam aimed at victims. Your bank's dispute process and the official reporting services never charge a fee in advance.
Full answers about refunds and reporting are in the Safety FAQ below.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
The site describes itself as Cult Pens, the UK pen retailer, complete with the brand logo, the 'Shop over 24,000 premium pens' pitch and a 'SUMMER SALE' banner, but it runs on markermuse.shop, a domain registered only 90 days ago. Its sole contact mailbox is support@cultpens.com — the real retailer's domain, not the store's own — and the pages are built on the storefront of a known brand-clone shop network. Fourteen of 93 security engines flag the domain as malicious or phishing. A shopper who enters card details here is dealing with an unidentified operator impersonating a real shop, so the score sits in the Dangerous band.
A cloned Cult Pens storefront with no operator behind it
The header carries a dark navy 'Cult Pens' logo badge with the real retailer's navigation — Pens, Pencils, Inks & Refills, Notebooks & Paper, Art & Craft, Luxury Writing, Gifts, Offers & New — and the hero advertises 'Shop over 24,000 premium pens with specialist advice and free UK delivery on all orders' under a 'SUMMER SALE' graphic. None of that branding belongs to markermuse.shop.
The store's only contact address is support@cultpens.com, which sits on the impersonated brand's domain rather than the store's own, and the pages are served from the storefront build of a known brand-clone shop network. No email on markermuse.shop itself, no phone number and no operator postal address are visible, and no registration is disclosed.
The domain is 90 days old, which cannot support the long trading history the Cult Pens identity implies. Independent search results describe the genuine cultpens.com as a trusted merchant with a 4.7 store rating from 1,344 reviews; nothing in the searches ties markermuse.shop to that business — the only 'Marker Muse' results point to an unrelated coloring app on markermuse.app.
Security vendors flag the domain even though the connection is clean
Fourteen of 93 engines mark the domain malicious and four more call it suspicious, with 13 independent antivirus families reporting an adverse result and categories naming phishing and fraud. That pattern fits a brand-clone storefront rather than a malware dropper.
The technical basics are not the problem: the browser threat feed returned no warning, the TLS certificate is valid with an encrypted connection, and the hosting IP carries an abuse confidence score of 0 across no saved reports. A clean padlock and an unblocked feed only mean no detection was recorded — they say nothing about who is collecting the payment.
Why the score is 18
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
18/ 93
detectionsFresh result
18 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 14
- Suspicious
- 4
- Total
- 93
- Malicious14
- Suspicious4
- Clean44
- Undetected31
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| BitDefenderMalicious | phishing |
| Chong Lua DaoMalicious | malicious |
| CRDFMalicious | malicious |
| CyRadarMalicious | phishing |
| Forcepoint ThreatSeekerMalicious | phishing |
| FortinetMalicious | phishing |
| G-DataMalicious | phishing |
| KasperskyMalicious | phishing |
| LionicMalicious | phishing |
| NetcraftMalicious | malicious |
| RisingMalicious | phishing |
| SophosMalicious | phishing |
| VIPREMalicious | phishing |
| WebrootMalicious | malicious |
| alphaMountain.aiSuspicious | suspicious |
| ESETSuspicious | suspicious |
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
| LevelBlueSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- BitDefender - phishing - Malicious
- Chong Lua Dao - Malicious
- CRDF - Malicious
- CyRadar - phishing - Malicious
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - phishing - Malicious
- Fortinet - phishing - Malicious
- G-Data - phishing - Malicious
- Kaspersky - phishing - Malicious
- Lionic - phishing - Malicious
- Netcraft - Malicious
- Rising - phishing - Malicious
- Sophos - phishing - Malicious
- VIPRE - phishing - Malicious
- Webroot - Malicious
- alphaMountain.ai - Suspicious
- ESET - Suspicious
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- LevelBlue - 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
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- CINS Army - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerphishing and other frauds
- Sophosphishing and fraud
- WebrootPhishing and Other Frauds
- alphaMountain.aiSuspicious
- Googleshopping
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
Visual context from the captured page
Header shows a dark navy 'Cult Pens' logo badge at top-left, with nav items Pens, Pencils, Inks & Refills, Notebooks & Paper, Art & Craft, Luxury Writing, Gifts, Offers & New. Hero banner reads 'Master Every Stroke with Expertise' and 'Shop over 24,000 premium pens with specialist advice and free UK delivery on all orders.' over a large 'SUMMER SALE' graphic with 'Up to 30% off 1,000s of pens, inks, & paper!' and a white 'Shop Now' button. The 'SUMMER SALE' background text overlaps and obscures the hero paragraph and the 'Shop Now' button, indicating a hastily assembled template. Below the hero, a 'Trending Now' section begins with carousel arrows; no prices or checkout fields are visible in the captured viewport. No browser address bar or URL is visible in the screenshot, so the host cannot be confirmed from pixels alone.
What the captured page showed
5 observations- 01
Header shows a dark navy 'Cult Pens' logo badge at top-left, with nav items Pens, Pencils, Inks & Refills, Notebooks & Paper, Art & Craft, Luxury Writing, Gifts, Offers & New.
- 02
Hero banner reads 'Master Every Stroke with Expertise' and 'Shop over 24,000 premium pens with specialist advice and free UK delivery on all orders.' over a large 'SUMMER SALE' graphic with 'Up to 30% off 1,000s of pens, inks, & paper!' and a white 'Shop Now' button.
- 03
The 'SUMMER SALE' background text overlaps and obscures the hero paragraph and the 'Shop Now' button, indicating a hastily assembled template.
- 04
Below the hero, a 'Trending Now' section begins with carousel arrows; no prices or checkout fields are visible in the captured viewport.
- 05
No browser address bar or URL is visible in the screenshot, so the host cannot be confirmed from pixels alone.
Browser behavior
What our isolated browser recorded while it loaded the page. Host names only: no full addresses are published.
- Pop-ups
- 0
- Download attempts
- 0
- Notification prompts
- 0
- Navigations
- 2
- Other hosts contacted
- 2
Where the page went
- First loadmarkermuse.shopSame site
- On its ownmarkermuse.shopSame site
Hosts on our aggressive-advertising list
None contacted.
Test clicks
No test click was made on this page.
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
the world's largest selection of pens and pencils! | Cult Pens
- Meta description
The premier UK online pen store: over 24,000 items at competitive prices. Secure shopping. Specialist expertise. Top-tier customer service. Free UK delivery plus international shipping.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/aboutRead
- Contact page/contactRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
the world's largest selection of pens and pencils! | Cult Pens
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 62 antivirus results.
What independent research found
4 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
Fake Shop & Commercial Deception
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 0 across no saved reports.
- 02Hero banner reads 'Master Every Stroke with Expertise' and 'Shop over 24,000 premium pens with specialist advice and free UK delivery on all orders.' over a large 'SUMMER SALE' graphic with 'Up to 30% off 1,000s of pens, inks, & paper!' and a white 'Shop Now' button.
- 03Search results describe the genuine cultpens.com as a trusted merchant with a 4.7 store rating from 1,344 reviews, which is the business this site is imitating.
- Also 7 listed above
What this means for you
What happens when a visitor shops here
A visitor drawn in by 'Up to 30% off 1,000s of pens, inks, & paper' clicks 'Shop Now' or 'Shop Collection Now' and is taken into a same-site store and cart flow, where card and address details would be handed to an operator who discloses no identity.
How the observed mechanism works
The evidence-backed path
Each stage below is preserved from the grounded analysis and linked to saved evidence.
If something goes wrong, the only route offered is the 30-day return promise, which tells the buyer to contact 'our support team' — an address on the real Cult Pens domain that has no connection to this store. The footer also runs a 'Subscribe' email capture form on the homepage, About and Contact pages.
The captured link graph shows no cross-domain checkout or affiliate redirect, so the payment destination itself was not observed; the risk here is the impersonation and the missing operator, not a proven redirect chain.
Do not buy anything from markermuse.shop and do not enter card or address details there. If you want Cult Pens products, go directly to cultpens.com, the retailer whose name and mailbox this site is using. If you already placed an order, contact your card issuer about a chargeback and change any password you reused on the site.
Web research findings
Independent findings for markermuse.shop, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for markermuse.shop. 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.
Infrastructure map
- Domainmarkermuse.shop
- Redirects tomarkermuse.shop
- Hosted byBeijing Ruihao Kai Yuan Technology Co., Ltd
- Referencesfonts.googleapis.com · fonts.gstatic.com
Domain Timeline
- Aug 11, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 3 months old when this review was saved.
- Nov 10, 2026Saved security review — Rated Dangerous
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
markermuse.shop was registered very recently when this review was saved and was already flagged. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, and a young domain with active threat signals warrants extra caution.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No contact email uses the site's own domain.
- No phone number listed on the captured page.
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
Domain & Encryption
At the scan on Nov 10, 2026: 25% of the registration period had passed
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
At the scan on Nov 10, 2026: 24% of the validity period had passed
Certificate issued for markermuse.shop.
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
- 1301http://markermuse.shop/
- 2200https://markermuse.shop/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Grouped by what each domain is for. in page: named in the page’s HTML. contacted: the browser loaded it while rendering the page. ad list: on our aggressive-advertising list.
CDN & fonts2
- fonts.googleapis.comin pagecontacted
- fonts.gstatic.comin pagecontacted
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
maliciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 18 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Nov 10, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 10, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 10, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 5 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 10, 2026 |
| Independent research | 4 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 10, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result18 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 10, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 10, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 10, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result5 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 10, 2026
- Independent research
- Result4 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 10, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is markermuse.shop a scam or a legit online store?
Is markermuse.shop safe to use?
What should I do if I already gave my details to markermuse.shop?
Can I get my money back from markermuse.shop?
I ordered from markermuse.shop but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report markermuse.shop?
Why does markermuse.shop look legitimate if it's a scam?
Has markermuse.shop been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is markermuse.shop on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the markermuse.shop domain?
Where is markermuse.shop hosted?
How often is the markermuse.shop report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
markermuse.shop is a Cult Pens look-alike storefront on a 90-day-old domain whose only contact address belongs to the real UK retailer
The site describes itself as Cult Pens, the UK pen retailer, complete with the brand logo, the 'Shop over 24,000 premium pens' pitch and a 'SUMMER SALE' banner, but it runs on markermuse.shop, a domain registered only 90 days ago. Its sole contact mailbox is support@cultpens.com — the real retailer's domain, not the store's own — and the pages are built on the storefront of a known brand-clone shop network. Fourteen of 93 security engines flag the domain as malicious or phishing. A shopper who enters card details here is dealing with an unidentified operator impersonating a real shop, so the score sits in the Dangerous band.
09 · Community
Community
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