Is physiciansformulaglow.shop safe?
http://physiciansformulaglow.shop/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Three-day-old domain impersonates Physicians Formula and uses the real brand's email address as its only contact point
physiciansformulaglow.shop presents itself as a Physicians Formula storefront, but the domain was registered only three days ago and its sole contact mailbox sits on physiciansformula.com, the real brand's domain, rather than its own. The storefront is built on the platform of a known brand-clone shop network, and two independent antivirus families flag the domain as malicious or phishing. This is a brand-impersonation shop with strong adverse signals, so it scores in the Dangerous band.
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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 18/100
Dangerous covers scores 1–20. 3 findings pulled the score down; 1 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- StrongThe store's only contact address is on physiciansformula.com, the domain of the brand its own name copies, and its pages are built on the storefront of a known brand-clone shop network.
- StrongTwo independent antivirus families reported an adverse result, with 2 malicious detections across 93 engines.
- MinorNo contact email uses the site's own domain, no phone number is listed on the captured page, and no operator postal address is visible.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning.
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.
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01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
physiciansformulaglow.shop presents itself as a Physicians Formula storefront, but the domain was registered only three days ago and its sole contact mailbox sits on physiciansformula.com, the real brand's domain, rather than its own. The storefront is built on the platform of a known brand-clone shop network, and two independent antivirus families flag the domain as malicious or phishing. This is a brand-impersonation shop with strong adverse signals, so it scores in the Dangerous band.
A brand-clone storefront wearing the real brand's email
The page displays the Physicians Formula name and branding, and the store's only contact address is support@physiciansformula.com, which is on physiciansformula.com, the domain of the brand its own name copies. A legitimate store would not route customer contact through the brand it is imitating.
The storefront is built on the platform of a known brand-clone shop network, which is the same build used across other fake boutiques. The site also lists no phone number and no operator postal address on the captured page, and no contact email uses its own domain.
Security vendor flags and a three-day-old registration
Two independent antivirus families, LevelBlue and Netcraft, reported an adverse result, and the saved scan shows 2 malicious detections across 93 engines. These are current, target-bound flags on the domain itself, not a generic category guess.
The registrable domain is only 3 days old, which is consistent with a freshly deployed impersonation shop rather than an established retailer. A valid TLS certificate and a clean browser threat feed result only mean no transport or blocklist warning was recorded at scan time; they do not offset the brand-clone build or the vendor flags.
Why the score is 18
The store's only contact address is on physiciansformula.com, the domain of the brand its own name copies, and its pages are built on the storefront of a known brand-clone shop network. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
2/ 93
detectionsFresh result
2 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 2
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| LevelBlueMalicious | phishing |
| NetcraftMalicious | malicious |
All 93 engine results
- LevelBlue - phishing - Malicious
- Netcraft - Malicious
- 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 - 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
- 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
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Unrated
- Lionic - Clean
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekernewly registered websites
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
PHYSICIANS FORMULA
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
PHYSICIANS FORMULA
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
Hypoallergenic Makeup & Skin Care | Physicians Formula
- Meta description
Physicians Formula has made hypoallergenic products for sensitive skin since 1937. Browse our hypoallergenic skin care and makeup selection.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/aboutRead
- Privacy policy/privacyRead
- Refund / returns policy/returnsRead
- Shipping policy/shippingRead
- Contact page/contactRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Hypoallergenic Makeup & Skin Care | Physicians Formula
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
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
Phishing & Impersonation
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01Two independent antivirus families reported an adverse result, with 2 malicious detections across 93 engines.
- 02The store's only contact address is on physiciansformula.com, the domain of the brand its own name copies, and its pages are built on the storefront of a known brand-clone shop network.
- 03No contact email uses the site's own domain, no phone number is listed on the captured page, and no operator postal address is visible.
What this means for you
What happens when a visitor shops or checks out
A visitor who clicks the 'Shop Now' call to action is taken into the site's own product collection, where the cart and checkout flow are hosted on the same impersonating domain.
How the observed mechanism works
The evidence-backed path
Each stage below is preserved from the grounded analysis and linked to saved evidence.
Because the storefront is a known brand-clone build and its only contact address is the real brand's mailbox, any payment or personal details entered at checkout go to an operator who is not the brand being displayed and who provides no verifiable contact channel of their own.
Do not enter payment card details, personal information, or account credentials on this site. If you want Physicians Formula products, buy from the official physiciansformula.com store or a known retailer, and treat any email or link from physiciansformulaglow.shop as untrusted.
Web research findings
Independent findings for physiciansformulaglow.shop, 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 physiciansformulaglow.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. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainphysiciansformulaglow.shop
- Redirects tophysiciansformulaglow.shop
- Hosted byBeijing Ruihao Kai Yuan Technology Co., Ltd
- Referencesfonts.googleapis.com · fonts.gstatic.com
Domain Timeline
- Oct 25, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 3 days old when this review was saved.
- Oct 29, 2026Saved security review — Rated Dangerous
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
physiciansformulaglow.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
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
A certificate issued weeks or days before the scan on a domain registered recently is common on short-lived sites, though new legitimate sites look the same.
Certificate issued for physiciansformulaglow.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://physiciansformulaglow.shop/
- 2200https://physiciansformulaglow.shop/
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
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
suspiciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
Two independent antivirus families reported an adverse result, with 2 malicious detections across 93 engines. · No contact email uses the site's own domain, no phone number is listed on the captured page, and no operator postal address is visible.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The store's only contact address is on physiciansformula.com, the domain of the brand its own name copies, and its pages are built on the storefront of a known brand-clone shop network.
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 93 engines flagged | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Oct 29, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 29, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 29, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 29, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 29, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result2 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 29, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 29, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 29, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 29, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 29, 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.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Three-day-old domain impersonates Physicians Formula and uses the real brand's email address as its only contact point
physiciansformulaglow.shop presents itself as a Physicians Formula storefront, but the domain was registered only three days ago and its sole contact mailbox sits on physiciansformula.com, the real brand's domain, rather than its own. The storefront is built on the platform of a known brand-clone shop network, and two independent antivirus families flag the domain as malicious or phishing. This is a brand-impersonation shop with strong adverse signals, so it scores in the Dangerous band.
09 · Community
Community
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