Is seongsu-exchange.kr safe?
http://seongsu-exchange.kr/
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How we checked
Coverage: partial · 2 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (61 of 92 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading · limited: did not fully complete
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
MONEYBOX Seongsu currency-exchange site redirects to a different domain and carries stale antivirus flags
seongsu-exchange.kr presents itself as MONEYBOX Seongsu, a currency exchange and luggage storage branch, but the address immediately hands the browser to seongsu-exchange.com, a different domain. The registrable domain is only 156 days old, the site's own contact details were not reviewed, and a saved antivirus observation records adverse results from three independent engine families, though that report is stale. The browser threat feed shows no warning and the TLS connection is valid, so there is no current evidence of active malicious behaviour. Because the site's own pages could not be read in full and the operator's public reputation is unverified, this cannot be rated Safe or Low Risk; the score reflects a young, redirecting, partially unread site with unresolved historical detections.
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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. 4 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Strong3 independent antivirus families 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.
- MinorThe page redirected the browser to an unrelated external domain.
- MinorThe registrable domain is 156 days old, which is young for a business presenting itself as an established exchange branch.
- MinorThe site's own contact details were not reviewed because the page text was not read in full, leaving the operator unverified.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the site.
- 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
seongsu-exchange.kr presents itself as MONEYBOX Seongsu, a currency exchange and luggage storage branch, but the address immediately hands the browser to seongsu-exchange.com, a different domain. The registrable domain is only 156 days old, the site's own contact details were not reviewed, and a saved antivirus observation records adverse results from three independent engine families, though that report is stale. The browser threat feed shows no warning and the TLS connection is valid, so there is no current evidence of active malicious behaviour. Because the site's own pages could not be read in full and the operator's public reputation is unverified, this cannot be rated Safe or Low Risk; the score reflects a young, redirecting, partially unread site with unresolved historical detections.
A currency-exchange storefront that immediately leaves its own domain
The visible page identifies the business as MONEYBOX Seongsu Currency Exchange & Luggage and shows the address seongsu-exchange.com. That is the only page content captured; the site's own contact details were not reviewed because the page text was not read in full.
The .kr address does not serve the storefront itself. It redirects the browser to an unrelated external domain, http://seongsu-exchange.kr/ -> https://seongsu-exchange.com/, so the visitor ends up on a different host than the one they typed.
Clean current checks, but a stale detection record and an unread operator
Current technical checks are clean: the browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection. Those results mean no detections were observed, not that the operator is trustworthy.
A saved antivirus observation records adverse results from three independent engine families, but it is stale, so the timing cannot be confirmed and it may reflect the domain's redirect behaviour or older false positives. The registrable domain is 156 days old, which is young for a business that presents itself as an established branch.
The site's own contact details were not reviewed, so nothing on the page can be used to confirm the operator, the claimed registration details, or how customer enquiries are handled. Independent web research produced no supportive or adverse reputation evidence for this operator.
Why the score is 62
3 independent antivirus families 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
Antivirus Engines
4/ 92
detectionsSaved analysis from October 2, 2026 - stale
4 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 3
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 92
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| alphaMountain.aiMalicious | phishing |
| Bfore.Ai PreCrimeMalicious | malicious |
| Forcepoint ThreatSeekerMalicious | phishing |
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 92 engine results
- alphaMountain.ai - phishing - Malicious
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Malicious
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - phishing - Malicious
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - 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
- 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 - Clean
- 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
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Unrated
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiPhishing
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerphishing and other frauds
- Googlefinancial_services
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
MONEYBOX Seongsu Currency Exchange & Luggage
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
MONEYBOX Seongsu Currency Exchange & Luggage
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
MONEYBOX 성수역점 | 20개국 환전 & 짐보관소
- Meta description
성수역 4번 출구 도보 1분! 올리브영 N' 성수 인근에 위치한 정부 공식 인증 환전소 및 수하물 보관소입니다. 별도 수수료 없이 환전하세요.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
MONEYBOX 성수역점 | 20개국 환전 & 짐보관소
What we observed
Saved browser evidence recorded cross domain landing.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
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
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The page redirected the browser to an unrelated external domain.
- 023 independent antivirus families 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.
- 03The registrable domain is 156 days old, which is young for a business presenting itself as an established exchange branch.
Web research findings
Independent findings for seongsu-exchange.kr, 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 seongsu-exchange.kr. 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.
- Domainseongsu-exchange.kr
- Redirects toseongsu-exchange.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesgoogletagmanager.com · fonts.googleapis.com
Domain Timeline
- May 19, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 5 months old when this review was saved.
- Oct 23, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.
seongsu-exchange.kr was registered very recently when this review was saved. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, so a young domain whose evidence is mixed or incomplete 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.
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
This is the certificate of seongsu-exchange.com, the site this URL lands on. Certificate issued for seongsu-exchange.com.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it. This is the address of seongsu-exchange.com, the site this URL lands on.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
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://seongsu-exchange.kr/
- 2200https://seongsu-exchange.com/cross-domain
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 contentpartial
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
suspiciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
3 independent antivirus families 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.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The page redirected the browser to an unrelated external domain. · The registrable domain is 156 days old, which is young for a business presenting itself as an established exchange branch.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 4 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 23, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Limited | No saved finding | this scan · Oct 23, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 23, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 23, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result4 of 92 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 23, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 23, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 23, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 23, 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
MONEYBOX Seongsu currency-exchange site redirects to a different domain and carries stale antivirus flags
seongsu-exchange.kr presents itself as MONEYBOX Seongsu, a currency exchange and luggage storage branch, but the address immediately hands the browser to seongsu-exchange.com, a different domain. The registrable domain is only 156 days old, the site's own contact details were not reviewed, and a saved antivirus observation records adverse results from three independent engine families, though that report is stale. The browser threat feed shows no warning and the TLS connection is valid, so there is no current evidence of active malicious behaviour. Because the site's own pages could not be read in full and the operator's public reputation is unverified, this cannot be rated Safe or Low Risk; the score reflects a young, redirecting, partially unread site with unresolved historical detections.
09 · Community
Community
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