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Is simcast.com safe?

http://simcast.com/

Low RiskStatus

Coveragecomplete4 of 4 applicable core capabilities

Verdict

Long-standing news aggregator with one isolated antivirus flag

Simcast.com presents itself as HeadlineLogic, a news aggregation service operated by ParkLogic Pty Ltd. The site displays headlines from external sources and offers sign-up/login forms. One antivirus engine flagged the domain as phishing while 89 others did not; the domain itself is over 23 years old with clean hosting reputation.

The site appears to be a legitimate, long-standing news aggregator. Exercise standard caution with account creation on any portal, but current evidence does not indicate active malicious behavior.
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Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan1 antivirus engine flagged this URLLevelBlue
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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

Simcast.com presents itself as HeadlineLogic, a news aggregation service operated by ParkLogic Pty Ltd. The site displays headlines from external sources and offers sign-up/login forms. One antivirus engine flagged the domain as phishing while 89 others did not; the domain itself is over 23 years old with clean hosting reputation.

Security signals and domain history

the multi-engine malware scan shows a single detection from LevelBlue across 90 engines, with no broader vendor consensus on malicious activity.

The registrable domain is 8656 days old, registered in 2002, which is atypical for short-lived malicious infrastructure.

Observed site purpose and commercial model

The site operates as a news aggregation platform branded as HeadlineLogic, displaying headlines from various external sources with visible HeadlineLogic logo in the top left corner.

Sign-up and login forms are present, indicating an account system for personalized news delivery, consistent with an advertising-supported content model.

Why the score is 78

Single antivirus engine flagged domain as phishing. 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

1/ 90

detections

Fresh result

1 engine flagged this URL

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

Malicious
1
Suspicious
0
Total
90
Adverse antivirus results
EngineFinding
LevelBlueMaliciousphishing
All 90 engine results
  • LevelBlue - phishing - Malicious
  • 0xSI_f33d - unrated - Clean
  • Abusix - clean - Clean
  • Acronis - clean - Clean
  • ADMINUSLabs - clean - Clean
  • AILabs (MONITORAPP) - clean - Clean
  • AlienVault - clean - Clean
  • alphaMountain.ai - clean - Clean
  • AlphaSOC - unrated - Clean
  • Antiy-AVL - clean - Clean
  • ArcSight Threat Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • AutoShun - unrated - Clean
  • Bfore.Ai PreCrime - unrated - Clean
  • BitDefender - clean - Clean
  • Bkav - unrated - Clean
  • BlockList - clean - Clean
  • Blueliv - clean - Clean
  • Certego - clean - Clean
  • ChainPatrol - unrated - Clean
  • Chong Lua Dao - 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
  • G-Data - clean - Clean
  • GCP Abuse Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • Google Safe Browsing - clean - Clean
  • GreenSnow - clean - Clean
  • GreyNoise - unrated - Clean
  • Gridinsoft - 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
  • 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
simcast.com
What our review noticed on this page
1HeadlineLogic logo visible in the top left corner.

Captured during this scan in a safe sandbox. Opening this report does not revisit the site. Marker positions are approximate. See full visual analysis →

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Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

HeadlineLogic logo visible in the top left corner.

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    HeadlineLogic logo visible in the top left corner.

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

    HeadlineLogic News Portal

  2. What we observed

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

  3. What independent research found

    1 external finding 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

Advertising

Observed behavior

No disruptive browser behavior saved

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 01Single antivirus engine flagged domain as phishing
  2. 02Domain registered in 2002 with 8656 days of history
  3. 03Hosting IP shows 0/100 abuse confidence score

Web research findings

Independent findings for simcast.com, 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
No scam reports found
The completed search returned no sourced scam reports or complaints.

No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for simcast.com. 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.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
ListedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗
Also verify:Spamhaus ↗DNSBL / SURBL ↗PhishTank ↗

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. Domainsimcast.com
  2. Redirects tosimcast.com
  3. Hosted byLinode
  4. Referencescode.jquery.com · fonts.googleapis.com

Domain Timeline

  1. Dec 28, 2002
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 24 years old today.

  2. Sep 9, 2026
    Saved security review — Reviewed — inconclusive

    The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.

simcast.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.

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
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbers2541103
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • No direct contact email found on the captured page.
  • Phone number listed (2541103).

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age24 years old
RegistrarDynadot Inc
RegisteredDec 28, 2002
ExpiresDec 28, 2030
Owner privacyUnknown
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YE2
ExpiresNov 12, 2026 (63d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingLinode
Server locationUS

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://simcast.com/
  • 2200https://simcast.com/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file1
ISPLinode
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

Referenced Domains

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

code.jquery.comfonts.googleapis.comfonts.gstatic.comadforge.iocdn4.af-node.comstorage.googleapis.comweb-business-assets.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.comgawq.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.comweb-business-assets.s3.amazonaws.comfacebook.cominstagram.comlinkedin.comyoutube.comx.comgoogletagmanager.com

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

suspicious

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
Result1 of 90 engines flagged
CompletionCompleted
FindingAdverse
Freshnessfresh · Sep 9, 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
Result1 independent finding 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 simcast.com a scam or is it safe?
simcast.com has a Safety Score of 78/100 (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 simcast.com safe to use?
simcast.com has a Safety Score of 78/100 (Low Risk). Analysis coverage is complete at 100%. Normal caution; verify sensitive actions.
Has simcast.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Yes. 1 of 90 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged simcast.com, 1 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 simcast.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — simcast.com 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.
How old is the simcast.com domain?
simcast.com is 23.7 years old, registered on December 28, 2002 through Dynadot Inc. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
Does simcast.com have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — simcast.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE2, valid for another 63 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 simcast.com hosted?
simcast.com resolves to an IP operated by Linode in US (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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 simcast.com report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on September 9, 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 simcast.com 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
78/100
Low Risk

Long-standing news aggregator with one isolated antivirus flag

Saved capturesimcast.comCapture-safe
Open saved capture
Captured during this scan. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

Simcast.com presents itself as HeadlineLogic, a news aggregation service operated by ParkLogic Pty Ltd. The site displays headlines from external sources and offers sign-up/login forms. One antivirus engine flagged the domain as phishing while 89 others did not; the domain itself is over 23 years old with clean hosting reputation.

Recommended actionThe site appears to be a legitimate, long-standing news aggregator. Exercise standard caution with account creation on any portal, but current evidence does not indicate active malicious behavior.
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