Is singingfiles.com safe?
http://singingfiles.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (63 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
singingfiles.com fakes a CAPTCHA, then demands survey offers and personal details before handing over an unknown 65 KB .exe
The page opens with a blue 3x3 dot puzzle headed "Complete the pattern below to prove that you are not a robot", styled to look like a CAPTCHA but with no brand, file name or company anywhere on it. Passing it leads to "Complete a Survey Below to Continue", where Step #1 tells the visitor to "Choose an offer above and input your valid information" and Step #2 promises the content unlocks "After offer completion". The only thing actually offered for download is "Setupdownloader.exe", a 65 KB Windows executable presented as "Download Your File". That combination — fake human check, personal-data offer wall, and a tiny installer instead of the file the visitor wanted — is a download-gate scheme, not a file host, and it is why the score sits in the Dangerous band.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan14 antivirus engines flagged this URLADMINUSLabs, alphaMountain.ai, Chong Lua Dao, CyRadar, FortinetSaved antivirus result from Nov 7, 2026At a glance
Saved with this scan; each value is explained in the sections below.
Domain age
10 years old
Registered Feb 15, 2016Expires Feb 15, 2027Certificate
Valid
Expires Jan 29, 2027 (80d)Hosting
United States (US)
Cloudflare, Inc.Popularity
Not in the Cloudflare Radar top list
Antivirus
14/63
14 antivirus engines flagged this URLSafe Browsing
Not flagged
Not flagged on major threat listsCommunity
No reviews yet
Checked
Nov 9, 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 18/100
Dangerous covers scores 1–20. 5 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Decisive10 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.
- ModerateThe entry screen imitates a CAPTCHA with a dot-pattern puzzle and no branding, file name or company anywhere on it.
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "This site is classified as Suspicious Website based on multiple risk signals, including 17 blacklist detections."
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "This website has been reported as a possible scam by Iain Pintsize."
- MinorNo contact email, company name or policy page appears on the captured page, leaving no accountable operator.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning at scan time and one URL checker found no known threats.
- SupportsThe domain was registered on 2016-02-15, which does not establish who operates it today.
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 page opens with a blue 3x3 dot puzzle headed "Complete the pattern below to prove that you are not a robot", styled to look like a CAPTCHA but with no brand, file name or company anywhere on it. Passing it leads to "Complete a Survey Below to Continue", where Step #1 tells the visitor to "Choose an offer above and input your valid information" and Step #2 promises the content unlocks "After offer completion". The only thing actually offered for download is "Setupdownloader.exe", a 65 KB Windows executable presented as "Download Your File". That combination — fake human check, personal-data offer wall, and a tiny installer instead of the file the visitor wanted — is a download-gate scheme, not a file host, and it is why the score sits in the Dangerous band.
A fake human check that leads straight to an offer wall
The landing screen is a full-page blue puzzle with a 3x3 dot grid and the line "Complete the pattern below to prove that you are not a robot", with the right-hand dots joined into an M shape. It copies the look of a real CAPTCHA, but the screenshot shows no company name, logo, file name or download button — just the puzzle and a cursor.
Once past the puzzle, the page reads "Complete a Survey Below to Continue" and lays out two steps: "Step #1: Choose an offer above and input your valid information" and "Step #2: After offer completion your content will unlock automatically." Personal details are the price of the download, and the offers are third-party sign-up tasks rather than anything the site sells itself.
The deliverable is listed under "Download Your File" as "Setupdownloader.exe" with "FILE SIZE : 65 KB" and an ID line "MSD : MS1858685265236", next to a "Begin Download" button. A 65 KB executable is an installer stub, not the document or media a visitor came for, and the captured button had no resolvable destination, so where the click actually sends people is unknown.
What the scanners and the connection say
A saved antivirus observation records 10 independent engine families returning adverse results, with malware and phishing labels among them. That data is a stored observation rather than a fresh submission, so it is real but not a live verdict on today's page; no sample of Setupdownloader.exe was obtained or run here, so its actual behaviour is unverified.
Independent checks point the same way: one scanner classifies the site as suspicious with 17 blacklist detections and a 1/100 trust score, and a second service reports it as a possible scam with a very low trust score. Against that, the browser threat feed returned no warning at scan time and one URL checker found no known threats — clean automated checks do not clear a page that asks for personal data and hands out an executable.
The page was served over plain HTTP with no redirect to HTTPS even though a valid certificate exists for the host, so anything typed into the offer forms travels unencrypted. The domain itself is old — registered 2016-02-15 — which says nothing about who runs it now, and the captured page carries no contact email, company name or policy pages, so there is no accountable party to complain to.
Why the score is 18
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
14/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from November 7, 2026 - stale
14 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 11
- Suspicious
- 3
- Total
- 93
- Malicious11
- Suspicious3
- Clean49
- Undetected30
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| ADMINUSLabsMalicious | malicious |
| alphaMountain.aiMalicious | malicious |
| Chong Lua DaoMalicious | malicious |
| CyRadarMalicious | malicious |
| FortinetMalicious | malware |
| LionicMalicious | malicious |
| SafeToOpenMalicious | phishing |
| SeclookupMalicious | malicious |
| SophosMalicious | malware |
| VIPREMalicious | malware |
| WebrootMalicious | malicious |
| ESETSuspicious | suspicious |
| Forcepoint ThreatSeekerSuspicious | spam |
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- ADMINUSLabs - Malicious
- alphaMountain.ai - Malicious
- Chong Lua Dao - Malicious
- CyRadar - Malicious
- Fortinet - malware - Malicious
- Lionic - Malicious
- SafeToOpen - phishing - Malicious
- Seclookup - Malicious
- Sophos - malware - Malicious
- VIPRE - malware - Malicious
- Webroot - Malicious
- ESET - Suspicious
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - spam - Suspicious
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - 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
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESTsecurity - 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
- 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
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiMalicious
- Sophosspyware and malware
- WebrootPhishing and Other Frauds
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerweb and email spam
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
Full-screen blue page showing a 3x3 dot grid with a 'Complete the pattern below to prove that you are not a robot.' heading and a lock icon; the right-hand dots are connected in an 'M' shape, mimicking a CAPTCHA challenge. No company name, logo, file name, or download button is visible in the rendered screenshot; only the pattern puzzle and a cursor icon appear.
What the captured page showed
2 observations- 01
Full-screen blue page showing a 3x3 dot grid with a 'Complete the pattern below to prove that you are not a robot.' heading and a lock icon; the right-hand dots are connected in an 'M' shape, mimicking a CAPTCHA challenge.
- 02
No company name, logo, file name, or download button is visible in the rendered screenshot; only the pattern puzzle and a cursor icon appear.
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
- 4
Where the page went
- First loadsingingfiles.comSame 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
Complete the Pattern (blank)..
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Complete the Pattern (blank)..
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 63 antivirus results.
What independent research found
7 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 6 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
Malware & Deceptive Downloads
Service and business model
Downloader
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
What this means for you
What happens if you follow the page through
A visitor who wants the promised file first has to solve the pattern puzzle, then pick one of the offers and "input your valid information" — name, email, phone or similar — into a third-party form on an unencrypted page.
How the observed mechanism works
The evidence-backed path
Each stage below is preserved from the grounded analysis and linked to saved evidence.
The page states the content unlocks only "After offer completion", so the download is conditional on finishing a marketing sign-up rather than on any payment for the file itself.
What is finally handed over is "Setupdownloader.exe", a 65 KB executable, not the file the visitor was looking for — and the download button's real destination was not captured, so the next hop is unknown.
Close the tab and do not run Setupdownloader.exe. If you already entered details into one of the offers, expect marketing and possible scam traffic to that address or number and treat unexpected messages as hostile. Get the file you wanted from its official source instead; nothing on this page identifies who runs it, and the only thing it delivers is an executable.
Web research findings
Independent findings for singingfiles.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- Gridinsoftopen
"This site is classified as Suspicious Website based on multiple risk signals, including 17 blacklist detections."
- Gridinsoftopen
"Gridinsoft gives it a 1/100 trust score, and multiple security vendors blacklist the domain. Avoid entering passwords, personal details, or payment data."
- ScamAdviseropen
"This website has been reported as a possible scam by Iain Pintsize."
- ScamAdviseropen
"In summary, singingfiles.com has a very low trust score which indicates that there is a strong likelyhood the website is a scam."
- Email Veritasopen
"No unsafe content found: the website has passed our security checks without detection of known threats."
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
- Domainsingingfiles.com
- Redirects tosingingfiles.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesajax.googleapis.com · fonts.googleapis.comand 1 more
Domain Timeline
- Feb 15, 2016Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 10 years old when this review was saved.
- Nov 9, 2026Saved security review — Rated Dangerous
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
singingfiles.com is an established domain now carrying threat signals. An older domain that starts tripping security checks is a classic pattern for an asset that was sold, repurposed, or compromised — the age alone is not reassurance.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No direct contact email found on the captured page.
Domain & Encryption
At the scan on Nov 9, 2026: 98% 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 9, 2026: 10% of the validity period had passed
Certificate issued for singingfiles.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.
Analytics and ads
- 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.
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 & tracking1
- static.cloudflareinsights.comin pagecontacted
CDN & fonts3
- ajax.googleapis.comin pagecontacted
- fonts.googleapis.comin pagecontacted
- fonts.gstatic.comcontacted
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- 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 | 14 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Nov 7, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 9, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 9, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 2 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 9, 2026 |
| Independent research | 7 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 9, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result14 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Nov 7, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 9, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 9, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result2 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 9, 2026
- Independent research
- Result7 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 9, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is singingfiles.com a scam or a legit download site?
Is singingfiles.com safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on singingfiles.com — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from singingfiles.com?
Is my device infected after visiting singingfiles.com?
How do I report singingfiles.com?
singingfiles.com looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has singingfiles.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is singingfiles.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the singingfiles.com domain?
Where is singingfiles.com hosted?
How often is the singingfiles.com report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
singingfiles.com fakes a CAPTCHA, then demands survey offers and personal details before handing over an unknown 65 KB .exe
The page opens with a blue 3x3 dot puzzle headed "Complete the pattern below to prove that you are not a robot", styled to look like a CAPTCHA but with no brand, file name or company anywhere on it. Passing it leads to "Complete a Survey Below to Continue", where Step #1 tells the visitor to "Choose an offer above and input your valid information" and Step #2 promises the content unlocks "After offer completion". The only thing actually offered for download is "Setupdownloader.exe", a 65 KB Windows executable presented as "Download Your File". That combination — fake human check, personal-data offer wall, and a tiny installer instead of the file the visitor wanted — is a download-gate scheme, not a file host, and it is why the score sits in the Dangerous band.
09 · Community
Community
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