Is sl1nk.com legit or a scam?
Fake URL-shortener phishing site with malware detections and abusive hosting IP, designed to harvest credentials under the guise of link validation.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
Critical risk detected
12 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. Multiple independent checks — antivirus engines, browser safety blocklists, and threat databases — flagged this site. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
The domain presents itself as a Portuguese-language link-shortening service ('Encurtador de Link'), but multiple antivirus engines—including BitDefender, Certego, ADMINUSLabs, and Chong Lua Dao—classify it as malicious or phishing. The page content uses a classic social-engineering tactic: a fake 'security validation' screen claiming to check the destination link for viruses and phishing, then prompts users to enter a password. This is a credential-harvesting pattern. The hosting IP (198.49.23.144) carries an abuse score of 39/100 with 30 reported abuse incidents, indicating a history of malicious activity. The domain is 312 days old and registered through Squarespace Domains, but the combination of AV detections, abusive IP reputation, and the deceptive password-prompt design leaves no ambiguity about intent. Browser blocklists remain clean, likely because the site is relatively new to their feeds.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for sl1nk.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
No independent review aggregators provided data for this domain.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://sl1nk.com/
- 2200https://www.encurtador.dev/redirecionamentocross-domain
Server Reputation
Avoid this site
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Do not interact with sl1nk.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Verify the business through independent channels
Check the company's social profiles, registry records, and search for recent news or reviews that are not hosted on the site itself.
- Never use irreversible payment methods
Crypto, gift cards, wire transfers, and cash apps offer zero buyer protection. Use a credit card or PayPal if you must pay.
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags sl1nk.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — sl1nk.com scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. sl1nk.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR2, expiring in 77 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- sl1nk.com is 10 months old, registered on 8/6/2025 through Squarespace Domains LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 14 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged sl1nk.com as malicious or suspicious (12 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. sl1nk.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- sl1nk.com resolves to an IP operated by Squarespace, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 15, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around sl1nk.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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