Brand impersonation — not the real site
Typosquat clone of Solidfiles.com on a free .ct.ws subdomain flagged as suspicious by Gridinsoft. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
Is solidfile.ct.ws legit or a scam?
Typosquat clone of Solidfiles.com on a free .ct.ws subdomain flagged as suspicious by Gridinsoft.
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
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
Screenshot likely captured the SPA loader; the page is a live JavaScript app, not parked.
What our vision model saw
3 signalsMinimalist search interface with no branding or company details beyond a logo
Generic links for Terms, Privacy, and About with no visible content
Page is a JavaScript single-page app — screenshot likely caught the loading state before hydration. Domain is live.
Intelligence
The page loads a minimalist search interface that mirrors the layout of the established Solidfiles.com service. Our fingerprinting detected both a direct clone match and a typosquat of the legitimate domain. The site runs on ct.ws, a free hosting service repeatedly linked to malware, phishing, and command-and-control activity. Gridinsoft marks the subdomain as suspicious, and global traffic index flags the parent domain for multiple threat categories including phishing and scam infrastructure. No contact details, business registration, or ownership information appear anywhere on the page. The combination of impersonation, free-hosting abuse, and vendor detections outweighs the clean antivirus scan.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for solidfile.ct.ws, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- The domain solidfile.ct.ws is a subdomain of ct.ws, a free hosting service frequently associated with malicious activity and phishing.
- Security vendors including Gridinsoft have blacklisted the domain, assigning it a low trust score of 26/100.
- The site is reported to contain 'Fake Social Media Links' which do not lead to actual profiles, a common tactic for creating false legitimacy.
- The parent domain ct.ws is flagged by Cloudflare and other security providers for hosting malware, phishing, and command-and-control infrastructure.
- The domain name appears to be a typosquat or impersonation of the established file-sharing site Solidfiles.com.
- Gridinsoftopen
"Solidfile.ct.ws is a suspicious website... The site is classified as Suspicious Website based on multiple risk signals, including 2 blacklist detections."
- Cloudflare Radaropen
"Security threats: Anonymizer; Brand Embedding; Command and Control & Botnet; Compromised Domain; Cryptomining; DNS Tunneling; Malware; Phishing; Scam; Spam; Spyware. ct.ws."
The domain name 'solidfile' on a free '.ct.ws' subdomain appears to impersonate the legitimate file-sharing service 'Solidfiles.com'.
Gridinsoft reports the subdomain as suspicious with multiple blacklist detections and a trust score of 26/100. global traffic index associates ct.ws with anonymizer, phishing, malware, and scam infrastructure. Two complaints note the use of fake social media links and impersonation of the legitimate Solidfiles.com service. No positive reviews or business registrations were found.
Threat Detection
Scam Network
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
1 of 21 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 21 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Domain is a typosquat of solidfiles.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
1 of 21 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 21 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Domain is a typosquat of solidfiles.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedContact 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
Server Reputation
What to do
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with solidfile.ct.ws
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
- Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
- OpenReport the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
Final Verdict
This is a subdomain impersonating the legitimate file-sharing service Solidfiles.com. The strongest signal is the confirmed clone and typosquat pattern on a free hosting platform known for abuse.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- solidfile.ct.ws shows every sign of being a brand impersonation — do not enter your login or personal details. Our review tagged it for clone site. 1 of 92 security engines flag it. This pattern matches throwaway sites built to take money or data and disappear.
- No — solidfile.ct.ws scored just 25/100 on our trust scale, and we detected active threat indicators. We recommend avoiding it entirely: don't log in, pay, download anything, or connect a wallet.
- If you've already paid or handed over details on solidfile.ct.ws, act quickly. 1) Contact your bank or card issuer immediately and ask to dispute the charge or open a chargeback — the sooner you act, the better your odds. 2) Report the site to the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov or the FBI's IC3 at ic3.gov, and in the UK to Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. 3) If you entered a password, change it on solidfile.ct.ws and anywhere you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. 4) Watch your bank and email for follow-up fraud, and keep screenshots as evidence.
- Often yes, if you act fast. Payments made by credit or debit card can frequently be reversed through a chargeback or dispute — contact your bank right away and explain it was a fraudulent site. Bank transfers and gift-card or voucher payments are much harder to recover, but you should still report them to your bank and to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov) or Action Fraud (actionfraud.police.uk). Avoid any "refund" or "recovery" service that contacts you first — it's usually a follow-up scam.
- If you entered anything on solidfile.ct.ws, assume it was captured. Phishing pages exist purely to harvest what you type — usernames, passwords, card numbers, or one-time codes. Change the password immediately on the real site and anywhere you reused it, enable two-factor authentication, and if you entered card or banking details, contact your bank about the risk of fraud. Also be alert for follow-up "security" calls or emails that try to exploit the same information.
- You can report solidfile.ct.ws through several official channels: the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at ic3.gov, and — in the UK — Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. You can also flag it to Google Safe Browsing (safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish) so other browsers warn about it, and report it to the company being impersonated if there is one. Reporting helps get scam sites taken down faster.
- Modern scams are built to look convincing. A valid SSL padlock, a polished template, stock photos, fake reviews, and a trust badge can all be added in minutes and prove nothing about who runs the site. Scammers buy cheap domains, clone real designs, and copy legal pages wholesale. That's exactly why an automated review that checks the domain's age, hosting, blacklists, and behaviour — rather than just how the page looks — is more reliable than a first impression.
- Yes. 1 of 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged solidfile.ct.ws as suspicious. Even a single detection from a reputable engine is a meaningful warning, and multiple detections rarely happen by accident.
- No — solidfile.ct.ws 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.
- solidfile.ct.ws resolves to an IP operated by I FastNet LTD in GB (Content Delivery Network). 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.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 11, 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 solidfile.ct.ws has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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