Is midetools.com safe?
http://midetools.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: partial · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (63 of 94 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
MiDeTools sells DEWALT-branded power tools from a storefront whose About page is unfilled copy from a known fake-shop network
midetools.com is a Shopify storefront trading as 'MiDeTools' that lists DEWALT cordless tools and battery packs with discount framing such as 'Save $76.00'. Its About-us text is a template used across a known network of fake shops, and the store-name slot before that copy was left unfilled. The domain is about 11 months old, no company, phone, postal address or email is shown, and the only contact route is a generic web form. Technical checks are clean, but the storefront's own construction is the problem, so the score sits in the High Risk band.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scanSaved antivirus result from Feb 1, 2026: no detections across 63 enginesAt a glance
Saved with this scan; each value is explained in the sections below.
Domain age
11 months old
Registered Dec 3, 2025Expires Dec 3, 2028Certificate
Valid
Expires Jan 19, 2027 (66d)Hosting
Canada (CA)
Shopify, Inc.Popularity
Not in the Cloudflare Radar top list
Antivirus
0/63
Saved antivirus result from Feb 1, 2026: no detections across 63 enginesSafe Browsing
Not flagged
Not flagged on major threat listsCommunity
No reviews yet
Checked
Nov 13, 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 30/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 3 findings pulled the score down; 1 pushed it up.
- Start46
- -11
- -5
- Score30
What pulled the score down
- StrongThe site's own About-us copy is a template used across a known network of fake shops, on a 345-day-old domain.-11 pts
- ModerateNo contact email, phone number or postal address is shown; only a generic web form is offered.-5 pts
- MinorThe newsletter modal still shows the theme's placeholder text instead of real copy.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsSafe Browsing is clean, TLS is valid and the hosting IP has no abuse reports.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 46 to 30 and split those 16 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger.
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01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
midetools.com is a Shopify storefront trading as 'MiDeTools' that lists DEWALT cordless tools and battery packs with discount framing such as 'Save $76.00'. Its About-us text is a template used across a known network of fake shops, and the store-name slot before that copy was left unfilled. The domain is about 11 months old, no company, phone, postal address or email is shown, and the only contact route is a generic web form. Technical checks are clean, but the storefront's own construction is the problem, so the score sits in the High Risk band.
The About page is network template copy, not a real business story
The About-us copy on the homepage and /pages/about-us matches Template A of a fake-shop About-us kit, with the same fragments (core, looking-for, lifetime, suppliers, core-vision) seen across a known network of fake shops. The store-name slot before the template text was never filled in, which is what an operator leaves behind when a kit is dropped onto a new domain.
The same unfinished-build pattern shows elsewhere: the newsletter pop-up still carries the theme's placeholder line 'Describe what your customers will receive when subscribing to your newsletter.'
Nothing on the captured pages identifies who runs the store. There is no contact email, no phone number and no operator postal address; the only channel is a name/e-mail/message form. The domain itself is about 11 months old, registered in December 2025.
Branded tools, discount framing, no dealer status
The catalogue is DEWALT-branded hardware, for example a 'DEWALT 20V MAX XR 5 Ah Lithium Ion Battery 2-Pack ... (DCB205)', presented with savings claims such as 'Save $76.00' and a 'BFCM Early Bird Price! |Up to 50% ОFF' banner. The hero image shows a lineup of yellow-and-black DEWALT tools.
The header's country/currency selector reads 'China (USD $)', and no brand authorisation or dealer status is disclosed anywhere on the captured pages. Whether the goods are genuine, grey-market or counterfeit is not established by the evidence, and no non-delivery or refund complaint about this domain was found in the searches that ran.
Clean connection checks do not make the seller accountable
The technical side is unremarkable: the browser threat feed returned no threat warning, the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, and the Shopify hosting IP carries an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across 92 saved reports. No pop-ups, forced redirects or downloads were observed.
The risk here is operator-side, not malware. Checkout stays on the same host: cart and '+ Quick add' buttons post to midetools.com's own /cart and /cart/add, and the only cross-site link in the graph is the 'Powered by Shopify' platform credit. The refund policy tells buyers to contact their credit card company and notes a refund 'may take some time before your refund is officially posted' — a standard card-dispute instruction, not proof of obstruction.
Why the score is 30
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 94
No detectionsSaved analysis from February 1, 2026 - stale
No detections across 63 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 31 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 94
- Clean63
- Undetected31
All 94 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- benkow.cc - Clean
- 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
- CMC Threat Intelligence - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Clean
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Clean
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- 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
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- Kaspersky - Unrated
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- malwares.com URL checker - 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
- securolytics - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Clean
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- Spam404 - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- ThreatHive - Clean
- Trustwave - 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
- 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 yellow 'MiDeTools' wordmark logo, with navigation Hot Product, New Product, Shop by Category, On Sale, Blog, Contact and a country/currency selector reading 'China (USD $)'. Top announcement bar reads 'The Best Thanksgiving Gift List', 'BFCM Early Bird Price! |Up to 50% ОFF' and '11.6-11.19'. Hero image shows a lineup of yellow-and-black DEWALT-branded cordless power tools (drills, impact drivers, batteries, laser level) on concrete blocks. A 'Signup for our newsletter' modal overlays the hero with an E-mail field, a yellow Subscribe button, and placeholder text 'Describe what your customers will receive when subscribing to your newsletter.' — an unfilled theme default.
What the captured page showed
4 observations- 01
Header shows a yellow 'MiDeTools' wordmark logo, with navigation Hot Product, New Product, Shop by Category, On Sale, Blog, Contact and a country/currency selector reading 'China (USD $)'.
- 02
Top announcement bar reads 'The Best Thanksgiving Gift List', 'BFCM Early Bird Price! |Up to 50% ОFF' and '11.6-11.19'.
- 03
Hero image shows a lineup of yellow-and-black DEWALT-branded cordless power tools (drills, impact drivers, batteries, laser level) on concrete blocks.
- 04
A 'Signup for our newsletter' modal overlays the hero with an E-mail field, a yellow Subscribe button, and placeholder text 'Describe what your customers will receive when subscribing to your newsletter.' — an unfilled theme default.
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
- 1
- Other hosts contacted
- 7
Where the page went
- First loadmidetools.comSame 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
MiDeTools
- Meta description
- The same text as the page title
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/about-usRead
- Terms/pages/terms-of-serviceRead
- Refund / returns policy/pages/refund-policyRead
- Shipping policy/pages/shipping-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contactRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
MiDeTools
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 63 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
Fake Shop & Commercial Deception
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The domain is about 11 months old (345 days).
- 02DEWALT-branded batteries and tools are sold with savings claims and a BFCM discount banner, with no dealer status disclosed.
- 03Cart and quick-add actions post to the site's own Shopify checkout; the only cross-site link is the Shopify platform credit.
- 04Header shows a yellow 'MiDeTools' wordmark logo, with navigation Hot Product, New Product, Shop by Category, On Sale, Blog, Contact and a country/currency selector reading 'China (USD $)'.
- 05Hero image shows a lineup of yellow-and-black DEWALT-branded cordless power tools (drills, impact drivers, batteries, laser level) on concrete blocks.
- Also 4 listed under Why 30/100 above
Web research findings
Independent findings for midetools.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for midetools.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.
Infrastructure map
- Domainmidetools.com
- Redirects tomidetools.com
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencescdn.shopify.com · fonts.shopifycdn.comand 6 more
Domain Timeline
- Dec 3, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 11 months old when this review was saved.
- Nov 13, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No direct contact email found on the captured page.
- No phone number listed on the captured page.
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
Domain & Encryption
At the scan on Nov 13, 2026: 32% 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 13, 2026: 26% of the validity period had passed
Certificate issued for midetools.com.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Chat, reviews and email
- Judge.me reviews
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://midetools.com/
- 2200https://midetools.com/
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.
Payments1
- shop.appcontacted
CDN & fonts7
- cdn.shopify.comin pagecontacted
- error-analytics-sessions-production.shopifysvc.comcontacted
- fonts.shopifycdn.comin page
- monorail-edge.shopifysvc.comin pagecontacted
- otlp-http-production.shopifysvc.comcontacted
- productreviews.shopifycdn.comin page
- shopify-assets.shopifycdn.comcontacted
Chat & reviews4
- api.judge.mein page
- cdn.judge.mein page
- cdn1.judge.mein page
- judge.mein page
Other / unknown1
- ecomsend-go.ecomsend.comcontacted
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
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
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 | 0 of 94 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Feb 1, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 13, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 13, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 4 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 13, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 13, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 94 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Feb 1, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 13, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 13, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result4 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 13, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 13, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is midetools.com a scam or a legit online store?
Is midetools.com safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on midetools.com — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from midetools.com?
I ordered from midetools.com but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report midetools.com?
midetools.com looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has midetools.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is midetools.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the midetools.com domain?
Does midetools.com have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the midetools.com report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
MiDeTools sells DEWALT-branded power tools from a storefront whose About page is unfilled copy from a known fake-shop network
midetools.com is a Shopify storefront trading as 'MiDeTools' that lists DEWALT cordless tools and battery packs with discount framing such as 'Save $76.00'. Its About-us text is a template used across a known network of fake shops, and the store-name slot before that copy was left unfilled. The domain is about 11 months old, no company, phone, postal address or email is shown, and the only contact route is a generic web form. Technical checks are clean, but the storefront's own construction is the problem, so the score sits in the High Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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