Is sportsbarrel.com safe?
http://sportsbarrel.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
A real-looking Indian sports-equipment shop whose domain is still flagged as phishing by ten security engines
sportsbarrel.com is a working OpenCart storefront selling sports infrastructure and gear — flooring, flood lights, turf, basketball, volleyball, wrestling and boxing rings — with a Greater Noida address, an Indian phone number and an email on its own domain. The domain has been registered since 2015 and the connection is properly encrypted. Against that, ten of ninety-three security engines label the domain malicious or phishing, while the browser threat feed shows no warning and the only public phishing submission we found was rejected as invalid. That split is unresolved, so the site sits in the moderate-risk band rather than being called safe.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan11 antivirus engines flagged this URLADMINUSLabs, alphaMountain.ai, Bkav, Chong Lua Dao, CyRadarWhere 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 58/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 1 finding pulled the score down; 7 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Decisive9 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the domain.
- SupportsThe domain has been registered since March 2015, over eleven years.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection and the hosting IP has no abuse reports.
- SupportsContact is an email on the site's own domain, an Indian phone number and a postal address, with a company registry record linking the email to an Indian private company.
- SupportsCheckout and returns stay on sportsbarrel.com; the only off-site links are a Google Maps address link and an OpenCart platform credit.
- SupportsA public record in public web research reads: "Sports Barrel is an online shopping destination for sports products."
- SupportsNo fake-shop kit markers were found: no template About-us copy, brand-clone markup, China storefront platform or refund-trap wording.
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
sportsbarrel.com is a working OpenCart storefront selling sports infrastructure and gear — flooring, flood lights, turf, basketball, volleyball, wrestling and boxing rings — with a Greater Noida address, an Indian phone number and an email on its own domain. The domain has been registered since 2015 and the connection is properly encrypted. Against that, ten of ninety-three security engines label the domain malicious or phishing, while the browser threat feed shows no warning and the only public phishing submission we found was rejected as invalid. That split is unresolved, so the site sits in the moderate-risk band rather than being called safe.
Why the score is held back: conflicting security verdicts
The saved scan shows 10 malicious and 1 suspicious result across 93 engines, with phishing labels from several well-known vendors and a 'Phishing and Other Frauds' classification from another. Nine independent antivirus families returned an adverse result. That is a substantial body of adverse opinion about this exact hostname, not a generic category guess.
The counterweight is real but does not cancel it. The browser threat feed returned no threat warning, the TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, and the hosting IP carries an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across zero saved reports. The one public phishing submission we could find for the domain, from April 2020, was marked INVALID and Offline by verifiers, so it does not establish phishing either.
We could not determine whether the vendor labels are stale leftovers from that 2020 episode or reflect something current on the site. Because that question is open, we do not treat the clean Safe Browsing result as proof the site is safe.
What the shop actually is, and who stands behind it
The catalogue is specific and technical — for example a 20ft x 20ft boxing ring built on a 24ft x 24ft platform with raised floor, taut ropes, anti-slip canvas and safety padding — which is the kind of copy a genuine equipment supplier writes. The header carries a 'Sports Barrel' logo with the tagline 'Play with your Heart', a call block with +91 9990 639 333, and a menu covering sports infrastructure, cricket, basketball, badminton, football, volleyball, tennis, wrestling, kabaddi and kho kho.
Contact details are on the site's own domain (info@sportsbarrel.com), with a listed Indian phone number and a postal address, and the contact page offers a same-site enquiry form plus a Google Maps link for Greater Noida. A company registry record ties that email address to an Indian private company with a Greater Noida registered office, and a brand presentation from 2017 describes the same business. The site itself does not name its registered operator, so the legal entity behind the storefront is inferred from third-party records rather than disclosed on the page.
The domain is 4252 days old, registered in March 2015, and the site runs on OpenCart with a footer credit to the platform. We found none of the fake-shop construction markers we look for — no copied About-us template, no brand-clone markup, no China storefront platform, no ships-from-China or refund-trap wording.
Why the score is 58
9 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
11/ 93
detectionsFresh result
11 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 10
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| ADMINUSLabsMalicious | malicious |
| alphaMountain.aiMalicious | phishing |
| BkavMalicious | malicious |
| Chong Lua DaoMalicious | malicious |
| CyRadarMalicious | phishing |
| ESETMalicious | phishing |
| FortinetMalicious | phishing |
| LionicMalicious | phishing |
| SophosMalicious | phishing |
| WebrootMalicious | malicious |
| Forcepoint ThreatSeekerSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- ADMINUSLabs - Malicious
- alphaMountain.ai - phishing - Malicious
- Bkav - Malicious
- Chong Lua Dao - Malicious
- CyRadar - phishing - Malicious
- ESET - phishing - Malicious
- Fortinet - phishing - Malicious
- Lionic - phishing - Malicious
- Sophos - phishing - Malicious
- Webroot - Malicious
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESTsecurity - 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
- 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
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Unrated
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiPhishing, Shopping
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekercompromised websites. sports
- Sophosphishing and fraud
- WebrootPhishing and Other Frauds
- BitDefendersports
- Googleretail
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
Visual context from the captured page
Header logo reads 'Sports Barrel' with tagline 'Play with your Heart' and the URL www.sportsbarrel.com beneath it. Top-right 'Call Us' block displays the phone number +91 9990 639 333 next to a wishlist icon with count 0. Main menu shows Home, Brands, Contact Us, Specials, Blogs plus a 'Search entire store...' box; left sidebar lists categories such as Sports Infrastructure, Cricket, Basketball, Badminton, Football, Volleyball, Lawn Tennis, Table Tennis, Wrestling, Kabaddi, Kho Kho. Hero carousel advertises 'BUILDING STRONGER PLAYGROUNDS FOR A FITTER TOMORROW' with photos of indoor courts, blue tennis courts and fenced turf pitches, and badges for premium quality, weather resistance and safety. 'TOP PRODUCTS' section shows discounted items with -25%, -56% and -35% sale badges and a 'Latest / Special / Bestseller' tab set. No payment, card-entry, crypto or third-party checkout widget is visible on the rendered homepage; only a cart icon with count 0.
What the captured page showed
6 observations- 01
Header logo reads 'Sports Barrel' with tagline 'Play with your Heart' and the URL www.sportsbarrel.com beneath it.
- 02
Top-right 'Call Us' block displays the phone number +91 9990 639 333 next to a wishlist icon with count 0.
- 03
Main menu shows Home, Brands, Contact Us, Specials, Blogs plus a 'Search entire store...' box; left sidebar lists categories such as Sports Infrastructure, Cricket, Basketball, Badminton, Football, Volleyball, Lawn Tennis, Table Tennis, Wrestling, Kabaddi, Kho Kho.
- 04
Hero carousel advertises 'BUILDING STRONGER PLAYGROUNDS FOR A FITTER TOMORROW' with photos of indoor courts, blue tennis courts and fenced turf pitches, and badges for premium quality, weather resistance and safety.
- 05
'TOP PRODUCTS' section shows discounted items with -25%, -56% and -35% sale badges and a 'Latest / Special / Bestseller' tab set.
- 06
No payment, card-entry, crypto or third-party checkout widget is visible on the rendered homepage; only a cart icon with count 0.
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
SportBarrrel
- Meta description
Sportsbarrel
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/about_usRead
- Terms/terms-and-condition-sports-barrelRead
- Refund / returns policy/index.phpRead
- Shipping policy/delivery-information-sports-barrelRead
- Contact page/index.phpRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
SportBarrrel
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
5 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
Phishing & Impersonation
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 0110 of 93 engines flag the domain as malicious and 1 as suspicious, with phishing labels from several established vendors.
- 029 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
- 03The browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the domain.
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What happens if you order here
A visitor who buys goes through the site's own OpenCart checkout at sportsbarrel.com — no cross-domain payment redirect was observed, and the rendered homepage shows no card-entry, crypto or third-party checkout widget, only a cart icon.
If this is a scam, how it works
The evidence-backed path
Each stage below is preserved from the grounded analysis and linked to saved evidence.
The terms state that orders are confirmed only after receipt of advance payment or an official purchase order. For a large infrastructure order, that means money moves before the goods do, and the site's own pages do not describe any escrow or buyer protection.
Returns are self-service through an on-site form asking for order ID, product code, quantity and reason, with options such as dead on arrival, faulty, wrong item and opened product. No third-party returns portal is involved, and we found no evidence of refund obstruction or non-delivery.
Treat this as a genuine-looking but unresolved case. If you only need to browse the catalogue, the site is fine to read. Before sending any advance payment, call the listed number and confirm the company and the Greater Noida address independently, ask for a written quotation and invoice on company letterhead, and pay by a method that can be reversed. For large orders, insist on a purchase-order or staged-payment arrangement rather than a full advance, and do not enter card details if your browser or security software warns about the domain.
Web research findings
Independent findings for sportsbarrel.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- SlideServe (brand presentation)open
"Sports Barrel is an online shopping destination for sports products."
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
- Domainsportsbarrel.com
- Redirects tosportsbarrel.com
- Hosted byBrander Group Inc.
- Referencesfonts.googleapis.com · googletagmanager.com
Domain Timeline
- Mar 14, 2015Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 11 years old when this review was saved.
- Nov 4, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (info@sportsbarrel.com).
- Phone number listed (+91 9990 639 333 0).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for sportsbarrel.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.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
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.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://sportsbarrel.com/
- 2200https://sportsbarrel.com/
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
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
maliciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
9 independent antivirus families 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 | 11 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Nov 3, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 4, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 4, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 6 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 4, 2026 |
| Independent research | 5 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 4, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result11 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 3, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 4, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 4, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result6 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 4, 2026
- Independent research
- Result5 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 4, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is sportsbarrel.com a scam or is it safe?
Is sportsbarrel.com safe to use?
Has sportsbarrel.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is sportsbarrel.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the sportsbarrel.com domain?
Does sportsbarrel.com have a valid SSL certificate?
Where is sportsbarrel.com hosted?
How often is the sportsbarrel.com report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
A real-looking Indian sports-equipment shop whose domain is still flagged as phishing by ten security engines
sportsbarrel.com is a working OpenCart storefront selling sports infrastructure and gear — flooring, flood lights, turf, basketball, volleyball, wrestling and boxing rings — with a Greater Noida address, an Indian phone number and an email on its own domain. The domain has been registered since 2015 and the connection is properly encrypted. Against that, ten of ninety-three security engines label the domain malicious or phishing, while the browser threat feed shows no warning and the only public phishing submission we found was rejected as invalid. That split is unresolved, so the site sits in the moderate-risk band rather than being called safe.
09 · Community
Community
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