Is softbrass.com safe?
http://softbrass.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (57 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading · not available: did not fully complete
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
The browser threat feed flags softbrass.com for social engineering, and the site itself returns a 404 while redirecting to a subdomain with a generic "cybersecurity professionals" notice.
softbrass.com is a 21-day-old domain that browser protection feeds list twice for SOCIAL_ENGINEERING, the category used for deceptive pages that trick visitors into handing over data or following a fake flow. The root address returned HTTP 404, so the site's own page, contact, About and policy text was never reviewed, and the only visible content is a subdomain page carrying a boilerplate "Notice for cybersecurity professionals" line about "authorized services through official partnerships with publishers". One antivirus family also returned an adverse result, while the encrypted connection itself is valid. With a decisive browser warning, no readable operator information and no independent reputation to weigh, this lands in the High Risk band.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan1 antivirus engine flagged this URLGoogle Safe BrowsingWhere 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 22/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 3 findings pulled the score down; 1 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- DecisiveA browser-protection feed identifies this URL as malware or social engineering.
- Moderate1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result.
- MinorThe root page answered HTTP 404, so the site's own page, contact, About and policy text was never reviewed.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
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
softbrass.com is a 21-day-old domain that browser protection feeds list twice for SOCIAL_ENGINEERING, the category used for deceptive pages that trick visitors into handing over data or following a fake flow. The root address returned HTTP 404, so the site's own page, contact, About and policy text was never reviewed, and the only visible content is a subdomain page carrying a boilerplate "Notice for cybersecurity professionals" line about "authorized services through official partnerships with publishers". One antivirus family also returned an adverse result, while the encrypted connection itself is valid. With a decisive browser warning, no readable operator information and no independent reputation to weigh, this lands in the High Risk band.
A decisive social-engineering warning sits on a three-week-old domain
The browser threat feed returned SOCIAL_ENGINEERING twice for this address, and a second browser-protection feed describes the URL as malware or social engineering. That is the strongest single fact in this review: it means a mainstream browser will likely show a warning page before a visitor ever reaches the content.
The registrable domain is only 21 days old, so there is no track record behind it. One antivirus family also reported an adverse result, though there is no vendor consensus across the engines checked.
A 404 root and a boilerplate notice on a subdomain
The root page could not be read at all: it answered HTTP 404, so the site's own page, contact, About and policy text was never reviewed. Nothing on the domain explains who runs it or what it sells.
What was captured is a subdomain page headed "Notice for cybersecurity professionals" and stating that "This domain provides authorized services through official partnerships with publishers." That wording is a stock template used by ad-delivery and access-control intermediaries, not a description of a real business, and it does not explain why a browser feed classifies the domain as social engineering.
Clean encryption does not offset an unreadable, flagged operator
The saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, so traffic to the site is not exposed in transit. That is the only supportive technical result, and it says nothing about whether the operator is honest.
The hosting IP carries an abuse confidence score of 32/100 across 31 saved reports, which is context rather than proof of anything specific about this domain. Combined with the unreadable root page and the missing operator details, there is no basis to treat the site as trustworthy.
Why the score is 22
A browser-protection feed identifies this URL as malware or social engineering.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 93
detectionsFresh 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
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| Google Safe BrowsingMalicious | phishing |
All 93 engine results
- Google Safe Browsing - phishing - Malicious
- 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 - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- 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
How security vendors categorise this site
- BitDefenderonlineshop
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekeradvertisements
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
Detected threat categories: SOCIAL_ENGINEERING, SOCIAL_ENGINEERING.
What we observed
Visual context from the captured page
Notice for cybersecurity professionals This domain provides authorized services through official partnerships with publishers.
What the captured page showed
2 observations- 01
Notice for cybersecurity professionals
- 02
This domain provides authorized services through official partnerships with publishers.
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
No page claim could be verified for softbrass.com because no usable page content or saved capture was available.
What we observed
The page itself could not be fully inspected, so the report relies on the other saved checks.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
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
Phishing & Impersonation
Service and business model
Unknown
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The browser threat feed lists the URL twice under SOCIAL_ENGINEERING, and a second browser-protection feed describes it as malware or social engineering.
- 02A browser-protection feed identifies this URL as malware or social engineering.
- 03One antivirus family returned an adverse result with no consensus across the engines checked.
Web research findings
Independent findings for softbrass.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for softbrass.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.
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
- Domainsoftbrass.com
- Redirects tofowl.softbrass.com
- Hosted byAmazon Technologies Inc.
Domain Timeline
- Oct 18, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 21 days old when this review was saved.
- Nov 8, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
softbrass.com was registered very recently when this review was saved and was already flagged. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, and a young domain with active threat signals warrants extra caution.
Domain & Encryption
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
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.
Certificate issued for fowl.softbrass.com.
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.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://softbrass.com/
- 2404https://fowl.softbrass.com/
Server Reputation
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentunavailable
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
maliciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
A browser-protection feed identifies this URL as malware or social engineering. · 1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, 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.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 1 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Nov 8, 2026 |
| Browser protection | 2 browser threat categories matched | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 8, 2026 |
| Page content | Page content was not available for semantic review | Unavailable | No saved finding | Not available |
| Visual evidence | 2 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 8, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 8, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 8, 2026
- Browser protection
- Result2 browser threat categories matched
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 8, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage content was not available for semantic review
- CompletionUnavailableFindingNo saved finding
- FreshnessNot available
- Visual evidence
- Result2 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 8, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 8, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is softbrass.com a scam or a legit website?
Is softbrass.com safe to use?
What should I do if I already gave my details to softbrass.com?
Can I get my money back from softbrass.com?
Did softbrass.com steal my password or personal information?
How do I report softbrass.com?
Why does softbrass.com look legitimate if it's a scam?
Has softbrass.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is softbrass.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the softbrass.com domain?
Does softbrass.com have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the softbrass.com report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
The browser threat feed flags softbrass.com for social engineering, and the site itself returns a 404 while redirecting to a subdomain with a generic "cybersecurity professionals" notice.
softbrass.com is a 21-day-old domain that browser protection feeds list twice for SOCIAL_ENGINEERING, the category used for deceptive pages that trick visitors into handing over data or following a fake flow. The root address returned HTTP 404, so the site's own page, contact, About and policy text was never reviewed, and the only visible content is a subdomain page carrying a boilerplate "Notice for cybersecurity professionals" line about "authorized services through official partnerships with publishers". One antivirus family also returned an adverse result, while the encrypted connection itself is valid. With a decisive browser warning, no readable operator information and no independent reputation to weigh, this lands in the High Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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