Is shorturl.asia safe?
http://shorturl.asia/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (61 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
URL shortener with security-vendor warnings but no confirmed scam mechanism
shorturl.asia is a Thai-run link-shortening service with paid Starter, Pro and Business plans. The domain is about 6 years 4 months old and the browser threat feed shows no warning, but two antivirus engines flag it as malicious and two as suspicious, and independent trust checkers list it as a suspect domain. Nothing we reviewed shows a specific scam, so it lands in Moderate Risk.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan4 antivirus engines flagged this URLalphaMountain.ai, Chong Lua Dao, Gridinsoft, URLQueryAt a glance
Saved with this scan; each value is explained in the sections below.
Domain age
6 years old
Registered Jun 19, 2020Expires Jun 19, 2027Certificate
Valid
Expires Feb 9, 2027 (88d)Hosting
United States (US)
Cloudflare, Inc.Popularity
Not in the Cloudflare Radar top list
Antivirus
4/61
4 antivirus engines flagged this URLSafe Browsing
Not flagged
Not flagged on major threat listsCommunity
No reviews yet
Checked
Nov 12, 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 55/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 4 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Strong2 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
- Moderate3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "This website shortens links. It is often misused for phishing."
- Moderate3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "This website has been identified in a list of suspect domain names shared via AlienVault."
- Moderate3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Gridinsoft currently classifies this site as Suspicious Website. The report highlights 2 blacklist detections"
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe domain is about 6 years 4 months old.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed shows no warning and the TLS certificate is valid.
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).
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
shorturl.asia is a Thai-run link-shortening service with paid Starter, Pro and Business plans. The domain is about 6 years 4 months old and the browser threat feed shows no warning, but two antivirus engines flag it as malicious and two as suspicious, and independent trust checkers list it as a suspect domain. Nothing we reviewed shows a specific scam, so it lands in Moderate Risk.
What the security checks found
The multi-engine malware scan reports 2 malicious and 2 suspicious detections out of 93 engines. The flagging engines include alphaMountain.ai, Chong Lua Dao and Gridinsoft.
Outside the antivirus engines, Gridinsoft classifies the site as suspicious with 2 blacklist detections. An independent site-rating service notes that link shorteners are often misused for phishing, and an independent site-rating service shows the domain in a list of suspect names shared via AlienVault. These are generic risk notes about the category and list inclusion, not evidence of a specific attack from this site.
The browser threat feed returned no warning and the TLS connection is valid.
Operator and paid plans
The site lists a Bangkok, Thailand location, a Gmail address, a Facebook page and a contact form, but no named company or registration number. The operator stays effectively anonymous.
The site sells subscription packages, and choosing Starter, Pro or Business requires logging in first. All the commercial links we saw stay on the same domain, and nothing we reviewed shows hidden billing or a deceptive checkout.
Why the score is 55
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
4/ 93
detectionsFresh result
4 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 2
- Suspicious
- 2
- Total
- 93
- Malicious2
- Suspicious2
- Clean57
- Undetected32
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| alphaMountain.aiMalicious | malicious |
| Chong Lua DaoMalicious | malicious |
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
| URLQuerySuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- alphaMountain.ai - Malicious
- Chong Lua Dao - Malicious
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- URLQuery - 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 - Clean
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - 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
- LevelBlue - Unrated
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - 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
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiInformation Technology, Malicious
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerinformation technology
- Googletechnology
- Sophosinformation technology
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
ย่อลิงค์ ฟรี รวดเร็ว ปลอดภัย ไม่หมดอายุ
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
ย่อลิงค์ ฟรี รวดเร็ว ปลอดภัย ไม่หมดอายุ
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
- 1
- Other hosts contacted
- 5
Where the page went
- First loadshorturl.asiaSame 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
ย่อลิงค์ ฟรี รวดเร็ว ปลอดภัย ไม่หมดอายุ
- Meta description
ฟรี ย่อลิงค์ เป็นเครื่องมือฟรีในการย่อลิ้ง URL หรือลดลิงก์ ใช้เครื่องมือย่อ URL ของเราเพื่อสร้างลิงค์ย่อให้จำได้ง่าย ปลอดภัย ไม่หมดอายุ
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/aboutRead
- Contact page/service/contactRead
- Pricing/th/pricingRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
ย่อลิงค์ ฟรี รวดเร็ว ปลอดภัย ไม่หมดอายุ
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 61 antivirus results.
What independent research found
3 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
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Saas
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 012 malicious and 2 suspicious detections across 93 engines.
- Also 2 listed under Why 55/100 above
Web research findings
Independent findings for shorturl.asia, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- ScamAdviseropen
"This website shortens links. It is often misused for phishing."
- ScamDocopen
"This website has been identified in a list of suspect domain names shared via AlienVault."
- Gridinsoftopen
"Gridinsoft currently classifies this site as Suspicious Website. The report highlights 2 blacklist detections"
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
- Domainshorturl.asia
- Redirects toshorturl.asia
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referenceschallenges.cloudflare.com · static.cloudflareinsights.com
Domain Timeline
- Jun 19, 2020Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 6 years old when this review was saved.
- Nov 12, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
Domain & Encryption
At the scan on Nov 12, 2026: 91% 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.
At the scan on Nov 12, 2026: 2% of the validity period had passed
Certificate issued for shorturl.asia.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
Security checks
- Cloudflare Turnstile
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://shorturl.asia/
- 2206https://shorturl.asia/
Server Reputation
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.
Analytics & tracking3
- google-analytics.comcontacted
- googletagmanager.comcontacted
- static.cloudflareinsights.comin pagecontacted
Security checks2
- brunhild.challenges.cloudflare.comcontacted
- challenges.cloudflare.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 | 4 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Nov 12, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 12, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 12, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 12, 2026 |
| Independent research | 3 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 12, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result4 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 12, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 12, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 12, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 12, 2026
- Independent research
- Result3 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 12, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is shorturl.asia a scam or is it safe?
Is shorturl.asia safe to use?
Has shorturl.asia been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is shorturl.asia on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the shorturl.asia domain?
Does shorturl.asia have a valid SSL certificate?
Where is shorturl.asia hosted?
How often is the shorturl.asia report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
URL shortener with security-vendor warnings but no confirmed scam mechanism
shorturl.asia is a Thai-run link-shortening service with paid Starter, Pro and Business plans. The domain is about 6 years 4 months old and the browser threat feed shows no warning, but two antivirus engines flag it as malicious and two as suspicious, and independent trust checkers list it as a suspect domain. Nothing we reviewed shows a specific scam, so it lands in Moderate Risk.
09 · Community
Community
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