Is sbn-law.com safe?

http://sbn-law.com/

SafeStatus

Coveragestrong2 of 4 applicable core capabilities

Verdict

Law firm website currently offline due to database error; no scam indicators found

sbn-law.com is the established online presence of Spasov & Bratanov Lawyers' Partnership, a Bulgarian law firm founded in 1999. The site is presently returning a database connection error and is non-functional, but the domain itself shows strong legitimacy signals including a 2001 registration date and clean the browser threat feed status.

The domain itself is legitimate and safe; visitors should simply wait for the law firm to restore its database connection before attempting to access services or contact information.
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Calibrated safety spectrum

Where this site sits

  1. Dangerous1–20
  2. High Risk21–44
  3. Moderate Risk45–69
  4. Low Risk70–84
  5. Safe85–100

The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.

01 · Investigation Brief

Investigation Brief

sbn-law.com is the established online presence of Spasov & Bratanov Lawyers' Partnership, a Bulgarian law firm founded in 1999. The site is presently returning a database connection error and is non-functional, but the domain itself shows strong legitimacy signals including a 2001 registration date and clean the browser threat feed status.

Domain age and professional verification

The registrable domain sbn-law.com is 9085 days old, placing its registration in 2001, well before the current wave of short-lived scam domains.

Independent research confirms the firm maintains a physical office at Slavyanska Office Centre, 29A Slavyanska Street, Floors 2 and 3, Sofia, Bulgaria, and is listed in the Chambers legal directory.

Site is non-functional due to database error

The live page currently displays the message "Error establishing a database connection," indicating a server-side configuration issue rather than any intentional malicious content.

One stale antivirus detection from Quttera is noted, but given the site's professional nature and current broken state, this is likely a false positive or artifact of the non-functional page.

Why the score is 88

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. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.

02 · Security Evidence

Security evidence

Collected signals and independent provider data for this URL.

Antivirus Engines

1/ 91

detections

Saved result - stale

1 engine flagged this URL

Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.

Malicious
1
Suspicious
0
Total
91
Adverse antivirus results
EngineFinding
QutteraMaliciousmalicious
All 91 engine results
  • Quttera - malicious - Malicious
  • 0xSI_f33d - unrated - Clean
  • Abusix - clean - Clean
  • Acronis - clean - Clean
  • ADMINUSLabs - clean - Clean
  • AILabs (MONITORAPP) - clean - Clean
  • AlienVault - clean - Clean
  • alphaMountain.ai - clean - Clean
  • AlphaSOC - unrated - Clean
  • Antiy-AVL - clean - Clean
  • ArcSight Threat Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • Artists Against 419 - clean - Clean
  • AutoShun - unrated - Clean
  • benkow.cc - clean - Clean
  • Bfore.Ai PreCrime - clean - Clean
  • BitDefender - clean - Clean
  • Bkav - unrated - Clean
  • BlockList - clean - Clean
  • Blueliv - clean - Clean
  • Certego - clean - Clean
  • Chong Lua Dao - clean - Clean
  • CINS Army - clean - Clean
  • Cluster25 - unrated - Clean
  • CMC Threat Intelligence - clean - Clean
  • CRDF - clean - Clean
  • Criminal IP - clean - Clean
  • Cyan - unrated - Clean
  • Cyble - clean - Clean
  • CyRadar - clean - Clean
  • desenmascara.me - clean - Clean
  • DNS8 - clean - Clean
  • Dr.Web - clean - Clean
  • EmergingThreats - clean - Clean
  • Emsisoft - clean - Clean
  • Ermes - unrated - Clean
  • ESET - clean - Clean
  • ESTsecurity - clean - Clean
  • Feodo Tracker - clean - Clean
  • Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - clean - Clean
  • Fortinet - clean - Clean
  • Fortra - unrated - Clean
  • G-Data - clean - Clean
  • Google Safe Browsing - clean - Clean
  • GreenSnow - clean - Clean
  • Gridinsoft - unrated - Clean
  • Heimdal Security - clean - Clean
  • IPsum - clean - Clean
  • Juniper Networks - clean - Clean
  • K7AntiVirus - clean - Clean
  • Kaspersky - clean - Clean
  • Lionic - clean - Clean
  • Lumu - unrated - Clean
  • Malwared - clean - Clean
  • MalwarePatrol - clean - Clean
  • malwares.com URL checker - clean - Clean
  • MalwareURL - unrated - Clean
  • Netcraft - unrated - Clean
  • OpenPhish - clean - Clean
  • PhishFort - unrated - Clean
  • Phishtank - clean - Clean
  • PREBYTES - clean - Clean
  • PrecisionSec - unrated - Clean
  • Quick Heal - clean - Clean
  • Rising - clean - Clean
  • SafeToOpen - unrated - Clean
  • Sangfor - clean - Clean
  • Sansec eComscan - unrated - Clean
  • Scantitan - clean - Clean
  • SCUMWARE.org - clean - Clean
  • Seclookup - clean - Clean
  • securolytics - clean - Clean
  • Snort IP sample list - clean - Clean
  • SOCRadar - unrated - Clean
  • Sophos - clean - Clean
  • Spam404 - clean - Clean
  • StopForumSpam - clean - Clean
  • Sucuri SiteCheck - clean - Clean
  • ThreatHive - clean - Clean
  • Threatsourcing - clean - Clean
  • Trustwave - clean - Clean
  • Underworld - unrated - Clean
  • URLhaus - clean - Clean
  • URLQuery - unrated - Clean
  • Viettel Threat Intelligence - clean - Clean
  • VIPRE - unrated - Clean
  • ViriBack - clean - Clean
  • VX Vault - clean - Clean
  • Webroot - clean - Clean
  • Xcitium Verdict Cloud - unrated - Clean
  • Yandex Safebrowsing - clean - Clean
  • ZeroCERT - clean - Clean

Security Scans

Browser Threat Feed
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.

What we observed

CAPTURED PAGE
sbn-law.com
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

Error establishing a database connection

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    Error establishing a database connection

03 · Investigation Story

Investigation story

The behavior, reputation, and operator evidence that explains how this site may affect a visitor.
  1. What the site claims

    Independent evidence classifies the site as content, but the page's own claim could not be captured.

  2. What we observed

    The page itself could not be fully inspected, so the report relies on the other saved checks.

  3. What independent research found

    1 external finding were saved and compared with the page evidence.

  4. 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

Unknown

Observed behavior

No disruptive browser behavior saved

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 01Domain registered in 2001, indicating long-term legitimate operation
  2. 02Slavyanska Office Centre 29A Slavyanska Street Floors 2 and 3, Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria, 1000, Sofia Chambers Profiles https://chambers.com/law-firm/spasov-bratanov-lawyers-partnership-7:79126
  3. 03Site currently shows database connection error, rendering it non-functional

Web research findings

Independent findings for sbn-law.com, 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.

Business registration
No public record found
Could not match the site to a registered company — common for small sites.
Clone check
No clone detected
The completed research found no supported clone indicator.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The completed research found no supported look-alike match.
Web mentions
1 positive
Positive reviews (1)
Public quotes that support the operator's credibility.
  • Chambers Profilesopen

    "Slavyanska Office Centre 29A Slavyanska Street Floors 2 and 3, Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria, 1000, Sofia"

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
ListedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

04 · Domain & Infrastructure

Domain & infrastructure

Timeline · identity · encryption · redirects · hosting

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.

  1. Domainsbn-law.com
  2. Redirects tosbn-law.com
  3. Hosted byASP Ltd

Domain Timeline

  1. Oct 30, 2001
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 25 years old today.

  2. Sep 14, 2026
    Saved security review — Reviewed as safe

    This saved scan found no active threat signals in the checks it completed.

sbn-law.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age25 years old
RegistrarTucows Domains Inc.
RegisteredOct 30, 2001
ExpiresOct 30, 2028
Owner privacyUnknown
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YR1
ExpiresDec 2, 2026 (79d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingASP Ltd
Server locationBG

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://sbn-law.com/
  • 2500https://sbn-law.com/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPASP Ltd
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

Coverage, provenance, and source freshness remain separate so a missing check is never mistaken for a clean result.
  1. Antiviruspartial
  2. Browser threat feedcomplete
  3. Page contentpartial
  4. Analysiscomplete
  5. Visual evidencecomplete
Completed analysis

The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.

Technical threat

suspicious

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

Additional evidence review

Operator / customer risk

unknown

Complaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.

No confirmed evidence in this dimension.

Source coverage and freshness

Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.

Antivirus
Result1 of 91 engines flagged
CompletionLimited
FindingAdverse
Freshnessstale fallback · Sep 14, 2026
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Page content
ResultPage content was not available for semantic review
CompletionLimited
FindingNo saved finding
FreshnessNot available
Visual evidence
Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Independent research
Result1 independent finding were saved
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

Still, stay alert

No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.

  1. Double-check the exact URL in your address bar

    Confirm you are actually on sbn-law.com and not a lookalike like s-bn-law.com or an IDN homoglyph.

  2. Use a password manager

    Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.

  3. Discuss this site on the forum

    If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.

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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 sbn-law.com legit and safe?
Our automated security review found no threat indicators on sbn-law.com, so it appears legitimate. and the domain is 24.9 years old, registered on October 30, 2001 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
Is sbn-law.com safe to use?
sbn-law.com has a Safety Score of 88/100 (Safe). 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. at scan time. Treat unexpected login or payment requests with normal caution.
Could a legitimate site like sbn-law.com still be used in a scam?
Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from sbn-law.com), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from sbn-law.com is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
Has sbn-law.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Yes. 1 of 91 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged sbn-law.com, 1 of them as outright malicious. Even a single detection from a reputable engine is a meaningful warning, and multiple detections rarely happen by accident.
Is sbn-law.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — sbn-law.com is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
How old is the sbn-law.com domain?
sbn-law.com is 24.9 years old, registered on October 30, 2001 through Tucows Domains Inc.. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
Does sbn-law.com have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — sbn-law.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR1, valid for another 79 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
Where is sbn-law.com hosted?
sbn-law.com resolves to an IP operated by ASP Ltd in BG (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
How often is the sbn-law.com report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on September 14, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about sbn-law.com has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.

08 · Final Verdict

Final verdict

The saved conclusion, decisive evidence, and practical action in one final view.
Verdict score
88/100
Safe

Law firm website currently offline due to database error; no scam indicators found

Saved capturesbn-law.comCapture-safe
Captured during this scan. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

sbn-law.com is the established online presence of Spasov & Bratanov Lawyers' Partnership, a Bulgarian law firm founded in 1999. The site is presently returning a database connection error and is non-functional, but the domain itself shows strong legitimacy signals including a 2001 registration date and clean the browser threat feed status.

Recommended actionThe domain itself is legitimate and safe; visitors should simply wait for the law firm to restore its database connection before attempting to access services or contact information.
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09 · Community

Community

First-hand experiences add human context after the scanner has reached its conclusion.