No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is scan.aura.com legit or a scam?
Official Aura dark web scanner subdomain operated by a legitimate, 31-year-old registered identity protection company based in Massachusetts.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
scan.aura.com is an official subdomain explicitly promoted by Aura, a registered US digital security company founded in 2017 and based in Burlington, Massachusetts. The domain itself was registered in 1994 and has been continuously maintained for over 31 years, with valid SSL from Amazon and a clean hosting IP (abuse score 0/100). Independent review aggregators rate the site as 'Very Likely Safe' and 'legit and safe for consumers to access.' The page content describes a legitimate free dark web scanner tool that funnels users toward Aura's paid identity protection services—a standard freemium business model. While our content analysis flagged phishing-language patterns and a login form, these are consistent with a legitimate identity-protection service that must ask users to verify their email and account status as part of normal operation. No scam reports or complaints were found targeting this subdomain.
Website Preview
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Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for scan.aura.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- scan.aura.com is an official subdomain of aura.com, used for their free Dark Web scan and data breach checker tool.
- Domain registered in 1994 (over 31 years old); Scamadviser rates it as "Very Likely Safe" and "legit and safe for consumers to access" despite low Tranco rank.
- Aura is a legitimate US digital security company offering identity theft protection, antivirus, VPN, and dark web monitoring; frequently reviewed positively by outlets like Forbes, CNBC, and Javelin Strategy.
- Aura suffered a March 2026 data breach via targeted employee phishing attack exposing ~900k records (mostly names, emails, addresses from a marketing database); no SSNs, passwords, or financial data compromised.
- Reddit discussions on Aura (the parent service) are mixed: some users praise dark web/credit monitoring effectiveness, others criticize billing practices, upselling, or call it overpriced/ineffective.
- The page promotes legitimate free scans that link to Aura's paid identity protection services; no independent scam reports found specifically targeting scan.aura.com.
- Aura.com has a Trustpilot profile with mixed-to-positive reviews (4.1/5 from 1k+ reviews as of recent data).
Aura (formerly iSubscribed/Intersections Inc. assets) founded 2017, based in Burlington, Massachusetts; rebranded 2019; recognized by Inc. 5000, Forbes, USA Today.
Our research confirmed that scan.aura.com is an official subdomain of Aura, a legitimate US-based identity protection company. Aura was founded in 2017 (rebranded in 2019 from iSubscribed/Intersections Inc. assets) and is based in Burlington, Massachusetts. The company is recognized by major publications including Forbes, CNBC, USA Today, and Inc. 5000. Independent review aggregators rate the site as 'Very Likely Safe' and 'legit and safe for consumers to access.' Aura.com maintains a independent review aggregator profile with mixed-to-positive reviews (4.1/5 from 1,000+ reviews). The company experienced a data breach in March 2026 via targeted employee phishing that exposed approximately 900,000 records (mostly names, emails, and addresses from a marketing database); no SSNs, passwords, or financial data were compromised. No scam reports or complaints were found specifically targeting scan.aura.com.
Scam Network Intelligence
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- Contact address uses a free-mail provider (icloud.com) — unusual for a real business.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page contains phishing language (account verification, suspension warnings, etc.).
- Page impersonates Apple on a non-official domain.
- Login form present on a page impersonating Apple — credential-harvest pattern.
- Scam family match: Phishing Patterns.
- Phone number listed (1-833-552-2123).
- Links to 10 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://scan.aura.com/
- 2200https://scan.aura.com/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 scam-type patterns detected
2 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Login form combined with brand impersonation (credential-harvest pattern).
- Page impersonates Apple in a login flow.
- Phishing copy patterns in the scraped page.
- Primary scraped category is phishing / credential-harvest.
- Page mentions Apple (non-official domain).
2 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Login form combined with brand impersonation (credential-harvest pattern).
- Page impersonates Apple in a login flow.
- Phishing copy patterns in the scraped page.
- Primary scraped category is phishing / credential-harvest.
- Page mentions Apple (non-official domain).
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.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on scan.aura.com and not a lookalike like s-can.aura.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- 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.
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on scan.aura.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- scan.aura.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 70/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. scan.aura.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, expiring in 236 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- scan.aura.com is 31.6 years old, registered on 10/23/1994 through GoDaddy Corporate Domains, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. scan.aura.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- scan.aura.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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