Is passlearn.co.uk safe?
http://passlearn.co.uk/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 92 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Pass Learn is a young UK training site with good reviews but an unresolved phishing flag
passlearn.co.uk presents itself as a UK learning and exam-booking service. It has a student login, a support contact form and a finance option. The site lists its own-domain email, a phone number and a postal address, and one review site shows a 4.97-star average from 104 reviews. Against that, the domain is only 207 days old. A website-checking service notes that a fraud-scoring vendor reported the site for phishing, and two antivirus engines marked the URL as suspicious in an older saved result. We found no specific scam mechanism, but the warnings are unresolved, so the site sits in Moderate Risk.
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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 62/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 2 findings pulled the score down; 4 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateOne public warning in public web research: "This website was reported by IPQS for phishing."
- Moderate2 antivirus results marked the URL as suspicious. 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
- SupportsA review aggregator shows a 4.97-star average from 104 reviews.
- SupportsThe site lists an own-domain email, a phone number and a postal address.
- SupportsGoogle Safe Browsing returned no threat warning
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection
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
passlearn.co.uk presents itself as a UK learning and exam-booking service. It has a student login, a support contact form and a finance option. The site lists its own-domain email, a phone number and a postal address, and one review site shows a 4.97-star average from 104 reviews. Against that, the domain is only 207 days old. A website-checking service notes that a fraud-scoring vendor reported the site for phishing, and two antivirus engines marked the URL as suspicious in an older saved result. We found no specific scam mechanism, but the warnings are unresolved, so the site sits in Moderate Risk.
Mixed signals: positive reviews versus security flags
A website-checking service records that the fraud-scoring vendor IPQS reported this site for phishing. Separately, two antivirus engines marked the URL as suspicious. That antivirus result is a stale saved observation, and the evidence does not say what triggered either flag.
On the positive side, the browser threat feed showed no warning, and the connection was encrypted. A review aggregator lists a 4.97-star average from 104 reviews.
Technical checks and operator details
The site shows contact details on its own domain (support@passlearn.co.uk), a phone number (020 4634 1407) and a postal address. However, no company registration number was seen, and the domain is only about seven months old.
The pages show a payl8r finance option, which links to the separate payl8r.com site. The "Speak to one of our experts" form asks for your name, email and phone number, and is handled by a third-party form service. The site also displays an urgency banner reading "Last Week To Book November 2026 Exams".
Why the score is 62
One public warning in public web research: "This website was reported by IPQS for phishing.". Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
2/ 92
detectionsSaved analysis from October 2, 2026 - stale
2 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 2
- Total
- 92
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
| URLQuerySuspicious | suspicious |
All 92 engine results
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- URLQuery - Suspicious
- 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
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- 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
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- 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
- 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
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- 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
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekereducational institutions
- Googleeducation
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
Last Week To Book November 2026 Exams
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Last Week To Book November 2026 Exams
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
Pass Learn | The UK's Number 1 Service for Qualifications
- Meta description
Pass is The UK's Number 1 Service for Qualifications. Unlock Career Progression and Access to University with us.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Terms/terms-and-conditions/Read
- Contact page/contact-usRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Pass Learn | The UK's Number 1 Service for Qualifications
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 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
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01One public warning in public web research: "This website was reported by IPQS for phishing."
- 022 antivirus results marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
- 03A review aggregator shows a 4.97-star average from 104 reviews.
Web research findings
Independent findings for passlearn.co.uk, 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.
- Scamadviseropen
"This website was reported by IPQS for phishing."
- CustomerEyeopen
"4.97 ★ average rating · 104 reviews"
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.
- Domainpasslearn.co.uk
- Redirects topasslearn.co.uk
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referenceskit.fontawesome.com · rum.corewebvitals.io
Domain Timeline
- Mar 23, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 6 months old when this review was saved.
- Oct 17, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks 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.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (support@passlearn.co.uk).
- Phone number listed (020 4634 1407).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Certificate issued for passlearn.co.uk.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Font Awesome
Payment providers the page loads
- PayPal
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://passlearn.co.uk/
- 2206https://passlearn.co.uk/
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
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
2 antivirus results marked the URL as suspicious. 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
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
One public warning in public web research: "This website was reported by IPQS for phishing."
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 92 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 17, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse 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 | 2 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Oct 17, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result2 of 92 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 17, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse 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
- Result2 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- 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 passlearn.co.uk a scam or is it safe?
Is passlearn.co.uk safe to use?
Has passlearn.co.uk been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is passlearn.co.uk on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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Does passlearn.co.uk have a valid SSL certificate?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Pass Learn is a young UK training site with good reviews but an unresolved phishing flag
passlearn.co.uk presents itself as a UK learning and exam-booking service. It has a student login, a support contact form and a finance option. The site lists its own-domain email, a phone number and a postal address, and one review site shows a 4.97-star average from 104 reviews. Against that, the domain is only 207 days old. A website-checking service notes that a fraud-scoring vendor reported the site for phishing, and two antivirus engines marked the URL as suspicious in an older saved result. We found no specific scam mechanism, but the warnings are unresolved, so the site sits in Moderate Risk.
09 · Community
Community
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