Is shopsector9.shop safe?
http://shopsector9.shop/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (60 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
shopsector9.shop is a clone of the Sector 9 longboard brand's store, built on a known fake-shop kit
The site sells Sector 9 skateboards and apparel and claims the brand's 1993 history, but its domain was registered only about four months ago, its only contact address is on the real brand's domain (sector9.com), and its pages are built on the storefront of a known brand-clone shop network. Four antivirus engines also flag the URL. That is why it scores 22, High Risk. Ages and dates here are at the time of the check (Nov 14, 2026).
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan5 antivirus engines flagged this URLalphaMountain.ai, CRDF, LevelBlue, Netcraft, GridinsoftAt a glance
Saved with this scan, at the time of the check (Nov 14, 2026); each value is explained in the sections below.
Domain age
4 months old
Registered Jul 14, 2026Expires Jul 14, 2027Certificate
Valid
Expires Feb 9, 2027 (86 days after the check)Hosting
United States (US)
Beijing Ruihao Kai Yuan Technology Co., LtdPopularity
Not in the Cloudflare Radar top list
Antivirus
5/93
5 antivirus engines flagged this URLSafe Browsing
Not flagged
Not flagged on major threat listsCommunity
No reviews yet
Checked
Nov 14, 2026
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 22/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 4 findings pulled the score down; 1 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- StrongThe store's only contact address is on sector9.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.
- Strong4 malicious and 1 suspicious detections across 93 engines.
- MinorClaims a 1993 founding but the domain is about 4 months old.
- MinorNo own-domain email, phone number or postal address disclosed.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsNo Safe Browsing warning and a valid TLS certificate.
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).
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01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
The site sells Sector 9 skateboards and apparel and claims the brand's 1993 history, but its domain was registered only about four months ago, its only contact address is on the real brand's domain (sector9.com), and its pages are built on the storefront of a known brand-clone shop network. Four antivirus engines also flag the URL. That is why it scores 22, High Risk.
What ties this store to a clone network
The store's only contact mailbox is support@sector9.com, an address on the domain of the brand whose name and logo the store copies, not on the store's own domain. Its pages load a Next.js storefront served under /_s/_next, which our review matched to a known brand-clone shop network.
The pages show the Sector 9 emblem and a hero banner reading 'Flying the flag since 1993', yet the domain was registered about four months ago. The real brand's own site is sector9.com.
The store discloses no phone number, no postal address and no named operator, and its contact form still carries the template placeholder john@example.com.
Technical checks versus operator risk
The multi-engine malware scan shows 4 malicious and 1 suspicious detections across 93 engines, including alphaMountain.ai, CRDF and LevelBlue. The browser threat feed shows no warning and the HTTPS certificate is valid. Those detections flag the URL; they do not prove a malware payload.
The larger risk is to shoppers. The site collects names, shipping addresses and payment details itself, but a customer cannot verify who runs it, whether the goods are genuine, or whom to ask for a refund. The hosting IP has no abuse reports, which does not offset this.
Ages and dates in this analysis are at the time of the check (Nov 14, 2026).
Why the score is 22
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
5/ 93
detectionsFresh 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
- 93
- Malicious4
- Suspicious1
- Clean55
- Undetected33
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| alphaMountain.aiMalicious | malicious |
| CRDFMalicious | malicious |
| LevelBlueMalicious | phishing |
| NetcraftMalicious | malicious |
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- alphaMountain.ai - Malicious
- CRDF - Malicious
- LevelBlue - phishing - Malicious
- Netcraft - 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
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- 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
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- 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 - Unrated
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiMalicious
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekershopping
- Googleretail
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
Visual context from the captured page
Header shows a 'Sector 9' logo with the brand's circular emblem, plus nav items Shop All, Riding Style, Components, Apparel, Account and 'Your Cart (0)'. Hero banner shows a large US flag background with a 'Sector 9' script logo and the headline 'Master the Road with Style' over a white 'Shop Now' button. Hero features white t-shirts printed 'FREEDOM ROLL TEE' and 'FLYING THE FLAG SINCE 1993' with Sector 9 branding, reinforcing the brand's 1993 founding claim. Top red announcement bar reads 'New Arrivals Just Dropped! Explore' with a dismiss control.
What the captured page showed
4 observations- 01
Header shows a 'Sector 9' logo with the brand's circular emblem, plus nav items Shop All, Riding Style, Components, Apparel, Account and 'Your Cart (0)'.
- 02
Hero banner shows a large US flag background with a 'Sector 9' script logo and the headline 'Master the Road with Style' over a white 'Shop Now' button.
- 03
Hero features white t-shirts printed 'FREEDOM ROLL TEE' and 'FLYING THE FLAG SINCE 1993' with Sector 9 branding, reinforcing the brand's 1993 founding claim.
- 04
Top red announcement bar reads 'New Arrivals Just Dropped! Explore' with a dismiss control.
Browser behavior
What our isolated browser recorded while it loaded the page. Host names only: no full addresses are published.
- Pop-ups
- 0
- Download attempts
- 0
- Notification prompts
- 0
- Navigations
- 2
- Other hosts contacted
- 2
Where the page went
- First loadshopsector9.shopSame site
- On its ownshopsector9.shopSame site
Hosts on our aggressive-advertising list
None contacted.
Test clicks
No test click was made on this page.
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
High-Quality Longboard Skateboards: Engineered for Style & Speed | Sector 9
- Meta description
Ride in style with longboard skateboards offering unique designs, smooth handling, and professional performance. Shop today to discover your ideal setup.
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
High-Quality Longboard Skateboards: Engineered for Style & Speed | Sector 9
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 60 antivirus results.
What independent research found
2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
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
Fake Shop & Commercial Deception
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What a visitor does here
The 'Shop Now' button and the cart both stay on shopsector9.shop, so a visitor who buys hands card and shipping details to this unverified operator rather than to a marketplace or the brand's own store.
Do not order or enter payment details here. To buy Sector 9 products, go to the brand's official site, sector9.com.
Web research findings
Independent findings for shopsector9.shop, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for shopsector9.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.
Infrastructure map
- Domainshopsector9.shop
- Redirects toshopsector9.shop
- Hosted byBeijing Ruihao Kai Yuan Technology Co., Ltd
- Referencesfonts.googleapis.com · fonts.gstatic.com
Domain Timeline
- Jul 14, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 4 months old when this review was saved.
- Nov 14, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
shopsector9.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
At the scan on Nov 14, 2026: 34% of the registration period had passed
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
At the scan on Nov 14, 2026: 3% of the validity period had passed
Certificate issued for shopsector9.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://shopsector9.shop/
- 2200https://shopsector9.shop/
Server Reputation
Sites linked to this one
- On the same server IP2 sites with a report: 2 High Risk
2 linked sites with a report. Each dot takes that site's own rating; a shared detail is a lead, not proof.
Other sites we have reports for that share something checkable with this one. A shared detail is a lead to compare, not proof that the sites have the same owner or the same risk; each keeps its own rating.
On the same server IP
Also served from 195.96.131.12 (Beijing Ruihao Kai Yuan Technology Co., Ltd). Unrelated sites can share a server, so this is a lead, not proof.
- makiastore.shopHigh Risk
- haremsy.shopHigh Risk
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Grouped by what each domain is for. in page: named in the page’s HTML. contacted: the browser loaded it while rendering the page. ad list: on our aggressive-advertising list.
CDN & fonts2
- fonts.googleapis.comin pagecontacted
- fonts.gstatic.comin pagecontacted
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.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 5 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Nov 14, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 14, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 14, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 4 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 14, 2026 |
| Independent research | 2 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 14, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result5 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 14, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 14, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 14, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result4 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 14, 2026
- Independent research
- Result2 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 14, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is shopsector9.shop a scam or a legit online store?
Is shopsector9.shop safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on shopsector9.shop — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from shopsector9.shop?
I ordered from shopsector9.shop but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report shopsector9.shop?
shopsector9.shop looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has shopsector9.shop been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is shopsector9.shop on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the shopsector9.shop domain?
Does shopsector9.shop have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the shopsector9.shop report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
shopsector9.shop is a clone of the Sector 9 longboard brand's store, built on a known fake-shop kit
The site sells Sector 9 skateboards and apparel and claims the brand's 1993 history, but its domain was registered only about four months ago, its only contact address is on the real brand's domain (sector9.com), and its pages are built on the storefront of a known brand-clone shop network. Four antivirus engines also flag the URL. That is why it scores 22, High Risk.
09 · Community
Community
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