Is sockmates.at safe?
http://sockmates.at/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (56 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Six-day-old Shopify sock shop with no phone, no imprint and no verifiable company behind it
sockmates.at is a German-language Shopify store selling magnetic matching socks for couples at EUR 14,99, shipping to Germany and Austria. Nothing malicious was found on it: no malware or phishing detections, a valid encrypted connection and no threat warning from Safe Browsing. The problem is commercial trust. The domain is six days old, the rendered storefront shows no phone number, no postal address and no imprint link, and no company registration is disclosed anywhere we could see. That combination means a buyer has almost nothing to check before paying, so the site sits in the moderate-risk band rather than being called safe.
At a glance
Saved with this scan; each value is explained in the sections below.
Domain age
6 days old
Registered Nov 5, 2026Certificate
Valid
Expires Feb 3, 2027 (84d)Hosting
Canada (CA)
Shopify, Inc.Popularity
Not in the Cloudflare Radar top list
Antivirus
0/56
No antivirus detections across 56 enginesSafe Browsing
Not flagged
Not flagged on major threat listsCommunity
No reviews yet
Checked
Nov 11, 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 62/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 2 findings pulled the score down; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- MinorThe registrable domain is six days old, so the shop has no operating history to evaluate.
- MinorThe captured page lists no phone number and no operator postal address, and the rendered viewport shows no imprint link or trust badges.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsNo malware or phishing detections, no Safe Browsing warning, valid TLS and a clean hosting reputation score.
- SupportsThe only off-site link is a reference to Shopify's own privacy policy; orders stay inside the store's own Shopify cart.
- SupportsSupport is a mailbox on the site's own domain, used for terms questions, cancellations, returns and damaged-item reports.
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
sockmates.at is a German-language Shopify store selling magnetic matching socks for couples at EUR 14,99, shipping to Germany and Austria. Nothing malicious was found on it: no malware or phishing detections, a valid encrypted connection and no threat warning from Safe Browsing. The problem is commercial trust. The domain is six days old, the rendered storefront shows no phone number, no postal address and no imprint link, and no company registration is disclosed anywhere we could see. That combination means a buyer has almost nothing to check before paying, so the site sits in the moderate-risk band rather than being called safe.
A brand-new shop with a thin paper trail
The registrable domain is only six days old, so there is no trading history to weigh and no track record of orders being fulfilled. The rendered homepage shows only 'Startseite' and 'Kontakt' in the navigation, with no company address, no phone number, no imprint link and no payment badges in view.
The captured page lists no phone number and no operator postal address. A business address does appear on the separate contact-information policy page, but no company registration number is disclosed, so a buyer cannot independently confirm who is behind the store.
On the positive side, the shop does publish a support mailbox on its own domain, support@sockmates.at, and directs terms questions, cancellations, returns and damaged-item reports to it. That is a real contact route, but it is e-mail only.
Clean technical checks, unproven operator
The technical side is clean: zero malicious and zero suspicious detections across 93 engines, no Safe Browsing threat warning, a valid encrypted connection, and a hosting address with an abuse confidence score of 0/100. No popups, download attempts or notification prompts were observed.
Those results say the site is not serving malware or phishing pages. They say nothing about whether the shop will deliver socks, which is why the score is driven by the missing identity and the six-day-old domain rather than by any detection.
Independent web research did not turn up anything about this specific store: the results were unrelated businesses with similar names and a help page for a different domain. We found no customer complaints and no independent reviews either way, so the operator's reputation is simply unverified.
What actually happens when you buy
The hero button 'JETZT ENTDECKEN →' and the product button 'Kaufen →' lead into the store's own Shopify catalog and cart. No cross-domain order path or affiliate destination was observed; the only off-site link is a reference to Shopify's own privacy policy in the terms.
The shop advertises free shipping from EUR 39 and runs a newsletter e-mail capture form on the homepage and policy pages. Its shipping policy states that delivery times are estimates rather than guarantees and that EU orders may attract VAT, customs, import and brokerage fees on top of the checkout total.
Returns are conditional: eligibility depends on the items ordered, and items must be unworn and unused with tags in the original packaging. That is a normal policy for clothing, but combined with a six-day-old domain it means a refund depends entirely on an operator nobody can yet vouch for.
Why the score is 62
The registrable domain was 6 days old at the time of checking.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 56 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 37 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
- Clean56
- Undetected37
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- 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
- 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 - Unrated
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Unrated
- LevelBlue - Clean
- 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
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
Visual context from the captured page
Full-width hero image of two feet in matching socks (one black, one cream) with cartoon faces and small magnetic hands clasped together, overlaid with German headline 'ZWEI SOCKEN. EINE VERBINDUNG.' and subline 'FÜR DICH. FÜR MICH. FÜR UNS.' Dark pill-shaped button labelled 'JETZT ENTDECKEN →' below the hero copy. Header shows 'Startseite' and 'Kontakt' links, a heart-shaped logo with two socks, currency selector 'EUR', search, account and cart icons; a thin bar reads 'Kostenloser Versand ab 39€' and a pink strip reads 'TWO SOCKS. ONE LOVE. ♥'. No visible company address, phone number, imprint/Impressum link, payment-method badges or trust seals in the rendered viewport; only 'Startseite' and 'Kontakt' navigation items are shown.
What the captured page showed
4 observations- 01
Full-width hero image of two feet in matching socks (one black, one cream) with cartoon faces and small magnetic hands clasped together, overlaid with German headline 'ZWEI SOCKEN. EINE VERBINDUNG.' and subline 'FÜR DICH. FÜR MICH. FÜR UNS.'
- 02
Dark pill-shaped button labelled 'JETZT ENTDECKEN →' below the hero copy.
- 03
Header shows 'Startseite' and 'Kontakt' links, a heart-shaped logo with two socks, currency selector 'EUR', search, account and cart icons; a thin bar reads 'Kostenloser Versand ab 39€' and a pink strip reads 'TWO SOCKS. ONE LOVE. ♥'.
- 04
No visible company address, phone number, imprint/Impressum link, payment-method badges or trust seals in the rendered viewport; only 'Startseite' and 'Kontakt' navigation items are shown.
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
- 7
Where the page went
- First loadsockmates.atSame 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
SOCKMATES – Matching-Socken für Paare | Better Together – SockMates
- Meta description
SOCKMATES – die Matching-Socken für Paare! 🧦 Mit magnetischen Händen verbunden, sind sie das perfekte Geschenk für deinen Lieblingsmenschen. Better Together.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Terms/policies/terms-of-serviceRead
- Refund / returns policy/policies/refund-policyRead
- Shipping policy/policies/shipping-policyRead
- Contact page/policies/contact-informationRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
SOCKMATES – Matching-Socken für Paare | Better Together – SockMates
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 56 antivirus results.
What independent research found
4 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
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01Delivery times are described as estimates, and EU orders may incur VAT, customs and brokerage fees beyond the checkout total.
- Also 5 listed under Why 62/100 above
Web research findings
Independent findings for sockmates.at, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for sockmates.at. 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
- Domainsockmates.at
- Redirects towww.sockmates.at
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencesfonts.googleapis.com · fonts.gstatic.comand 3 more
Domain Timeline
- Nov 5, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 6 days old when this review was saved.
- Nov 11, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.
sockmates.at was registered very recently when this review was saved. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, so a young domain whose evidence is mixed or incomplete 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 phone number listed on the captured page.
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (support@sockmates.at).
Domain & Encryption
A certificate issued weeks or days before the scan on a domain registered recently is common on short-lived sites, though new legitimate sites look the same.
At the scan on Nov 11, 2026: 7% of the validity period had passed
Certificate issued for www.sockmates.at.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
Payment providers the page loads
- Shop Pay
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://sockmates.at/
- 2301https://sockmates.at/
- 3200https://www.sockmates.at/
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.
Payments1
- shop.appin pagecontacted
CDN & fonts7
- cdn.shopify.comin pagecontacted
- error-analytics-sessions-production.shopifysvc.comcontacted
- fonts.googleapis.comin pagecontacted
- fonts.gstatic.comin page
- monorail-edge.shopifysvc.comin pagecontacted
- otlp-http-production.shopifysvc.comcontacted
- shopify-assets.shopifycdn.comcontacted
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
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, 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 | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Nov 11, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 11, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 11, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 4 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 11, 2026 |
| Independent research | 4 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 11, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 11, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 11, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 11, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result4 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 11, 2026
- Independent research
- Result4 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 11, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is sockmates.at a scam or is it safe?
Is sockmates.at safe to use?
Has sockmates.at been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is sockmates.at on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the sockmates.at domain?
Does sockmates.at have a valid SSL certificate?
Where is sockmates.at hosted?
How often is the sockmates.at report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Six-day-old Shopify sock shop with no phone, no imprint and no verifiable company behind it
sockmates.at is a German-language Shopify store selling magnetic matching socks for couples at EUR 14,99, shipping to Germany and Austria. Nothing malicious was found on it: no malware or phishing detections, a valid encrypted connection and no threat warning from Safe Browsing. The problem is commercial trust. The domain is six days old, the rendered storefront shows no phone number, no postal address and no imprint link, and no company registration is disclosed anywhere we could see. That combination means a buyer has almost nothing to check before paying, so the site sits in the moderate-risk band rather than being called safe.
09 · Community
Community
Are you the owner of sockmates.at?Verify and reply