Is sp-link.link safe?
http://sp-link.link/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 92 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
SP-LINK is a disclosed Japanese URL-shortener and landing-page service with a no-refund policy and Discord-only support
SP-LINK (sp-link.link) presents itself as a paid URL-shortening and landing-page creation service operated by a named Japanese company, with tiered monthly plans paid by credit card. The technical picture is clean: no Safe Browsing warning, a valid encrypted connection, and only one stale 'suspicious' antivirus note. The operator-side picture is thinner: the terms state that payments are non-refundable for any reason, and the captured page offers no direct contact email, pointing users to a Discord server instead. That combination — a real, disclosed service with a rigid payment policy and support routed through a third-party chat platform — fits Low Risk rather than Safe, because the commercial terms and support channel carry real friction for a paying customer.
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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 72/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. 3 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateThe terms of service state that once a fee has been paid, it will not be refunded for any reason.
- ModerateThe captured page contains no direct contact email, and the visible support channel is a Discord server.
- Moderate1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the URL.
- 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). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
SP-LINK (sp-link.link) presents itself as a paid URL-shortening and landing-page creation service operated by a named Japanese company, with tiered monthly plans paid by credit card. The technical picture is clean: no Safe Browsing warning, a valid encrypted connection, and only one stale 'suspicious' antivirus note. The operator-side picture is thinner: the terms state that payments are non-refundable for any reason, and the captured page offers no direct contact email, pointing users to a Discord server instead. That combination — a real, disclosed service with a rigid payment policy and support routed through a third-party chat platform — fits Low Risk rather than Safe, because the commercial terms and support channel carry real friction for a paying customer.
Paid plans with a strict no-refund clause
The service charges for access: its terms state that payment is, as a rule, made by credit card, and the site advertises tiered monthly plans. This is a straightforward paid SaaS model rather than a hidden subscription trap — the pricing is presented openly on the page.
The terms also state that once a fee has been paid, it will not be refunded for any reason. For a visitor, that means a mistaken purchase or an early cancellation carries no route to a refund through the service's own policy. This is a real commercial risk factor, though it is disclosed rather than concealed.
Clean technical checks, but support runs through Discord
On the technical side, the saved checks are reassuring: the browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the TLS check found a valid encrypted connection. One antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious, but that observation is stale and comes from a saved record rather than a fresh submission, so it should be treated as a flag to confirm timing rather than proof of active malware.
On the operator side, the captured page contains no direct contact email, and the visible support channel is a Discord server. Relying on a third-party chat platform for customer inquiries means the service's responsiveness and accountability are harder to verify than with a conventional support address. This is a friction point for paying customers, not evidence of fraud.
Why the score is 72
The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 92
detectionsSaved analysis from September 27, 2026 - stale
1 engine flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 92
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| Forcepoint ThreatSeekerSuspicious | suspicious |
All 92 engine results
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - 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
- 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
- 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 - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- 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
- alphaMountain.aiInformation Technology
- BitDefenderbusiness
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerelevated exposure
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
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Visual context from the captured page
SP-LINK
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
SP-LINK
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
SP-LINK - シンプルで強力な短縮URLサービス
- Meta description
長いURLを短く、美しく。カスタムリンク、画像付きプレビュー、アクセス解析まで。
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Terms/termsRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
SP-LINK - シンプルで強力な短縮URLサービス
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
1 of the 4 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
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Saas
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The terms of service state that once a fee has been paid, it will not be refunded for any reason.
- 02The captured page contains no direct contact email, and the visible support channel is a Discord server.
- 03The browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the URL.
Web research findings
Independent findings for sp-link.link, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for sp-link.link. 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. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainsp-link.link
- Redirects tosp-link.link
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesst3.depositphotos.com · discord.gg
Domain Timeline
- Oct 9, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 1 year old when this review was saved.
- Oct 24, 2026Saved security review — Rated Low Risk
This saved scan found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
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.
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Certificate issued for sp-link.link.
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
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.
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
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The terms of service state that once a fee has been paid, it will not be refunded for any reason. · The captured page contains no direct contact email, and the visible support channel is a Discord server.
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 92 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Sep 27, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 24, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 24, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 24, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 24, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 92 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Sep 27, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 24, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 24, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 24, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 24, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is sp-link.link a scam or is it safe?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
SP-LINK is a disclosed Japanese URL-shortener and landing-page service with a no-refund policy and Discord-only support
SP-LINK (sp-link.link) presents itself as a paid URL-shortening and landing-page creation service operated by a named Japanese company, with tiered monthly plans paid by credit card. The technical picture is clean: no Safe Browsing warning, a valid encrypted connection, and only one stale 'suspicious' antivirus note. The operator-side picture is thinner: the terms state that payments are non-refundable for any reason, and the captured page offers no direct contact email, pointing users to a Discord server instead. That combination — a real, disclosed service with a rigid payment policy and support routed through a third-party chat platform — fits Low Risk rather than Safe, because the commercial terms and support channel carry real friction for a paying customer.
09 · Community
Community
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