Is schmitz-wieseke.de safe?

http://schmitz-wieseke.de/

Low RiskStatus

Coveragecomplete4 of 4 applicable core capabilities

Verdict

Professional B2B sales consultancy site with minor antivirus flags

schmitz-wieseke.de presents a legitimate German B2B sales management consultancy founded by university professors, offering introductory meeting bookings and whitepapers. The site shows standard professional content and academic affiliations, though a small number of antivirus engines flag it.

The site appears to be a legitimate B2B consultancy. The antivirus flags are likely false positives common for business domains; exercise normal caution when booking meetings or downloading documents.
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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

schmitz-wieseke.de presents a legitimate German B2B sales management consultancy founded by university professors, offering introductory meeting bookings and whitepapers. The site shows standard professional content and academic affiliations, though a small number of antivirus engines flag it.

Technical signals and site content

Four malicious and one suspicious detection appear across 90 antivirus engines, while three independent antivirus families also report adverse results.

The visible page content shows standard navigation for a professional services firm, including links to Unternehmen, Leistungen, News & Know-How, Karriere, Kontakt, and a prominent introductory meeting booking button.

Visitor actions and cross-domain links

Visitors can select an introductory meeting via a Calendly booking link and access academic resources through links to the Sales Management Department at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

The site also links to the Sales Innovation Lab, indicating established academic and professional partnerships rather than consumer-facing commercial traps.

Why the score is 82

3 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. 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

5/ 90

detections

Fresh result

5 engines flagged this URL

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

Malicious
4
Suspicious
1
Total
90
Adverse antivirus results
EngineFinding
BitDefenderMaliciousphishing
Chong Lua DaoMaliciousmalicious
G-DataMaliciousphishing
GridinsoftMaliciousphishing
alphaMountain.aiSuspicioussuspicious
All 90 engine results
  • BitDefender - phishing - Malicious
  • Chong Lua Dao - malicious - Malicious
  • G-Data - phishing - Malicious
  • Gridinsoft - phishing - Malicious
  • alphaMountain.ai - suspicious - Suspicious
  • 0xSI_f33d - unrated - Clean
  • Abusix - clean - Clean
  • Acronis - clean - Clean
  • ADMINUSLabs - clean - Clean
  • AILabs (MONITORAPP) - clean - Clean
  • AlienVault - clean - Clean
  • AlphaSOC - unrated - Clean
  • Antiy-AVL - clean - Clean
  • ArcSight Threat Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • AutoShun - unrated - Clean
  • Bfore.Ai PreCrime - unrated - Clean
  • Bkav - unrated - Clean
  • BlockList - clean - Clean
  • Blueliv - clean - Clean
  • Certego - clean - Clean
  • ChainPatrol - unrated - Clean
  • CINS Army - clean - Clean
  • CRDF - clean - Clean
  • Criminal IP - unrated - Clean
  • CSIS Security Group - unrated - Clean
  • CTX AI - clean - Clean
  • Cyan - unrated - Clean
  • Cyble - clean - Clean
  • CyRadar - clean - Clean
  • desenmascara.me - clean - Clean
  • DNS8 - unrated - Clean
  • Dr.Web - clean - Clean
  • EmergingThreats - clean - Clean
  • Emsisoft - clean - Clean
  • Ermes - unrated - Clean
  • ESET - clean - Clean
  • ESTsecurity - clean - Clean
  • Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - clean - Clean
  • Fortinet - clean - Clean
  • Fortra - unrated - Clean
  • GCP Abuse Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • Google Safe Browsing - clean - Clean
  • GreenSnow - clean - Clean
  • GreyNoise - unrated - Clean
  • Guardpot - unrated - Clean
  • Heimdal Security - clean - Clean
  • Hunt.io Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • IPsum - clean - Clean
  • Juniper Networks - clean - Clean
  • K7AntiVirus - unrated - Clean
  • Kaspersky - clean - Clean
  • LevelBlue - clean - Clean
  • Lionic - clean - Clean
  • Lumu - unrated - Clean
  • Malwared - clean - Clean
  • MalwarePatrol - clean - Clean
  • MalwareURL - unrated - Clean
  • Mimecast - unrated - Clean
  • Netcraft - unrated - Clean
  • OpenPhish - clean - Clean
  • PhishFort - unrated - Clean
  • Phishtank - clean - Clean
  • PREBYTES - clean - Clean
  • PrecisionSec - unrated - Clean
  • Quick Heal - clean - Clean
  • Quttera - 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
  • Snort IP sample list - unrated - Clean
  • SOCRadar - unrated - Clean
  • Sophos - clean - Clean
  • StopForumSpam - clean - Clean
  • Sucuri SiteCheck - clean - Clean
  • ThreatHive - clean - 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
  • ZeroFox - unrated - 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
schmitz-wieseke.de
What our review noticed on this page
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

The site header contains navigation links: Unternehmen, Leistungen, News & Know-How, Karriere, Kontakt, and a prominent 'KENNENLERNTERMIN' button.

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    The site header contains navigation links: Unternehmen, Leistungen, News & Know-How, Karriere, Kontakt, and a prominent 'KENNENLERNTERMIN' button.

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

    Vertriebsberatung Prof. Schmitz & Wieseke – Sales Management Consulting

  2. What we observed

    The page content was captured and checked alongside 90 antivirus results.

  3. What independent research found

    2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.

  4. 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

No threat category confirmed

Service and business model

Content

Transaction

Observed behavior

No disruptive browser behavior saved

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 013 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
  2. 02Small number of engines flag the domain as phishing or malicious

Web research findings

Independent findings for schmitz-wieseke.de, 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
2 positive
Positive reviews (2)
Public quotes that support the operator's credibility.
  • Unternehmen – Vertriebsberatung Prof. Schmitz & Wiesekeopen

    "Gegründet als „ Deutsches Institut für Vertriebsforschung“ von den Bochumer Universitätsprofessoren Christian Schmitz und Jan Wieseke im Jahr 2014"

  • Schmitz & Wieseke | Sales Excellence - Vertriebsberatung Prof. Schmitz & Wiesekeopen

    "Prof. Schmitz & Wieseke GmbH Konrad-Zuse-Straße 18 44801 Bochum"

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. Domainschmitz-wieseke.de
  2. Redirects toschmitz-wieseke.de
  3. Hosted byIONOS SE
  4. Referencesuse.fontawesome.com · linkedin.com

Contact Verification

Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.

What We Found
Has a contact email on its own domain
Emails on site's domaininfo@schmitz-wieseke.de
Phone numbers18 44801
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • Contact email on the site's own domain (info@schmitz-wieseke.de).
  • Phone number listed (18 44801).

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerSectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36
ExpiresNov 11, 2026 (58d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingIONOS SE
Server locationDE
Web serverApache
Platform / CMSWordPress

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://schmitz-wieseke.de/
  • 2200https://schmitz-wieseke.de/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPIONOS SE
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

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

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

Technical threat

malicious

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

Additional evidence review · 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
Result5 of 90 engines flagged
CompletionCompleted
FindingAdverse
Freshnessfresh · Sep 14, 2026
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Page content
ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Visual evidence
Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Independent research
Result2 independent findings were saved
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

Verify before you trust

We couldn't gather enough signal for a confident verdict — tread carefully.

  1. Find the company through independent channels

    Search for the business on LinkedIn, an official registry (Companies House, OpenCorporates, SEC EDGAR), or via the brand's known social channels. If you can't trace a real entity, that itself is a red flag.

  2. Never pay by crypto, gift card, or bank transfer

    If the site forces an irreversible payment method, stop. Cards and PayPal give you chargeback protection — irreversible methods don't.

  3. Ask the forum

    Post the URL in the MalwareTips Scam Reports forum — experienced members often recognise patterns immediately.

    Open

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 schmitz-wieseke.de a scam or is it safe?
schmitz-wieseke.de has a Safety Score of 82/100 (Low Risk). The saved checks found no material threat, but the report did not meet every requirement for the highest Safe tier. Use normal caution and independently verify the operator before irreversible payments or unusually sensitive actions.
Is schmitz-wieseke.de safe to use?
schmitz-wieseke.de has a Safety Score of 82/100 (Low Risk). Analysis coverage is complete at 100%. Normal caution; verify sensitive actions.
Has schmitz-wieseke.de been flagged by antivirus engines?
Yes. 5 of 90 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged schmitz-wieseke.de, 4 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 schmitz-wieseke.de on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — schmitz-wieseke.de 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.
Does schmitz-wieseke.de have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — schmitz-wieseke.de presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, valid for another 58 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 schmitz-wieseke.de hosted?
schmitz-wieseke.de resolves to an IP operated by IONOS SE in DE (Content Delivery Network). 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 schmitz-wieseke.de 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 schmitz-wieseke.de 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
82/100
Low Risk

Professional B2B sales consultancy site with minor antivirus flags

Saved captureschmitz-wieseke.deCapture-safe
Captured during this scan. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

schmitz-wieseke.de presents a legitimate German B2B sales management consultancy founded by university professors, offering introductory meeting bookings and whitepapers. The site shows standard professional content and academic affiliations, though a small number of antivirus engines flag it.

Recommended actionThe site appears to be a legitimate B2B consultancy. The antivirus flags are likely false positives common for business domains; exercise normal caution when booking meetings or downloading documents.
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09 · Community

Community

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