SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

Security Review

Is srf.ch legit or a scam?

This looks safe to use.

Official Swiss public broadcaster site with clean scans, professional layout, and no scam indicators.

Cross-checked against 8 independent sources — none raised a concern
srf.chScanned 2h ago
0/100
Trust score
0 = danger · 100 = safe
SAFE
Score breakdown
Heuristics 100·MT 92
Screenshot of srf.chSee the live page ↓
Positive signals (4)
Antivirus clearNot on major blacklistsEncrypted connectionClean server reputation
View density

Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
Registration date unknown

Website Preview

Screenshot of srf.ch
LIVE RENDER
srf.ch

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.

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.

5
/ 100
Low visual risk

Visual red flags detected in the screenshot

The screenshot shows a professionally rendered news website for SRF (Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen) with standard UI elements and no visual indicators of a scam.

Visual risk5/100

What our vision model saw

5 signals

Professional layout consistent with a major news media organization

Standard cookie consent modal overlaying the main content

High-quality original imagery and typography

Functional navigation menu including News, Sport, and Meteo categories

Presence of brand-consistent logos and localized German language content

Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
Analysis
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust92/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The page is the legitimate homepage of SRF, the German-language public broadcaster in Switzerland. Zero engines flagged the site and the hosting IP carries no abuse reports. The domain serves news, video, and radio content with standard navigation and no credential forms. External domains loaded are other Swiss public broadcasters and a consent-management service. One automated scam detector gave a low score, but this appears to be a false positive driven by traffic volume rather than actual risk. Business registration confirms SRF as an active subsidiary of the national broadcaster SRG SSR.
Risk Factors
2
  • One automated scam detector assigned a low trust score, likely a false positive from traffic patterns.
  • No postal address appears on the homepage, which is common for large media organizations but noted by contact scanners.
Positive Signals
5
  • Zero of 92 antivirus engines flagged the page as malicious.
  • Hosting IP shows zero abuse reports and a clean reputation score.
  • Valid SSL certificate issued by Let's Encrypt.
  • Business registration confirms SRF as an active subsidiary of the Swiss national broadcaster.
  • Professional layout, original content, and consistent branding match a major news organization.
The full analysis

Page Content

The homepage displays current news headlines, live TV and radio streams, and navigation for Sport, Meteo, Kultur, and Kids sections. The layout uses the official SRF branding with German-language text and high-quality imagery. A standard cookie consent modal appears on load. No login forms, payment fields, or countdown timers are present.

Infrastructure

The site resolves to IP 89.106.200.1 with an abuse score of 0/100 and no reported incidents. SSL certificate is valid from Let's Encrypt and expires in 63 days. One redirect hop occurs within the same domain. External resources load from related Swiss public media domains and a consent platform.

Domain History

WHOIS data was unavailable in this scan. The domain carries a global traffic rank inside the top 100k and serves as the primary online presence for Switzerland's established public broadcaster.

Web Reputation

Independent review sites rate the outlet highly for factual reporting. One automated detector flagged the domain, but this conflicts with the clean engine results and official business registration. The brand is frequently impersonated in political misinformation campaigns, yet the real site itself shows no malicious activity.

What this means for you

This is the legitimate SRF website. Visitors can safely browse news and media content. The low trust score from one detector is an outlier and does not reflect actual risk.

AI Recommendation
The site is safe to visit for news and media content. No action required.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for srf.ch, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration
Active · Switzerland
Site traces back to an actively registered business.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
1 scam report · 259 complaints · 1 positive
Key findings
5 headline facts from open-web research
  • srf.ch is the official website of Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF), Switzerland's primary public broadcaster for the German-speaking region.
  • The site has a low Trustpilot score (1.5/5) primarily due to user complaints regarding political bias and content moderation in online forums.
  • Media Bias Fact Check rates the domain as 'High' for factual reporting and 'Left-Center' for bias.
  • Scam Detector incorrectly flags the domain with a very low trust score (12.7/100), likely due to automated algorithms misinterpreting high traffic or user-generated content as risk factors.
  • Official reports indicate that the brand is often impersonated in 'falsified' advertisements and doctored screenshots used for political manipulation.
Scam reports (1)
Direct quotes from public scam databases, forums, and news.
  • Scam Detectoropen

    "The algorithm detected high-risk activity related to phishing, spamming, and other factors... we recommend staying away from this website."

Positive reviews (1)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • Media Bias Fact Checkopen

    "We rate it High for Factual Reporting because it relies on credible sources and expert opinions."

Business registration
Status: active · Switzerland

SRF is a subsidiary of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR), the national public broadcaster founded in 1931.

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

Our research found one automated scam detector giving the domain a low trust score of 12.7/100. Media Bias Fact Check rates SRF as High for factual reporting. The site is the official domain of Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, a subsidiary of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation founded in 1931. Complaints on review platforms relate to perceived political bias rather than fraud or security issues. The brand is frequently impersonated in doctored screenshots used for political manipulation, but the real site shows no malicious behavior.

Threat Detection

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious61Harmless92Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not queried
ESET-NOD32
Not queried
Avira
Not queried
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Not queried
Emsisoft
Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

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.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

Technical Details

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.

Contact 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.

What We Found
Has contact info, but not on the site's domain
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbers12.07.2026
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Phone number listed (12.07.2026).

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YE1
ExpiresSep 15, 2026 (63d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingEnflow B.V.
Server locationNL
PopularityTop 100k worldwide

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://srf.ch/
  • 2200https://www.srf.ch/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPEnflow B.V.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

What to do

Still, stay alert

No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.

  • Double-check the exact URL in your address bar

    Confirm you are actually on srf.ch and not a lookalike like s-rf.ch.com or an IDN homoglyph.

  • Use a password manager

    Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.

  • Discuss this site on the forum

    If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.

    Open

Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·srf.ch
SAFE

srf.ch is the official website of Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, Switzerland's public broadcaster. The domain shows clean scans across all engines, valid SSL, and established infrastructure. No payment or login forms are present.

The site is safe to visit for news and media content. No action required.

AV engines
92
Domain age
Flagged
0
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Safety FAQ

Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.

  • Our automated security review found no threat indicators on srf.ch, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, it ranks among the world's most-visited sites, Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
  • srf.ch passed our automated checks with a trust score of 95/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
  • Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from srf.ch), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from srf.ch is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
  • No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report srf.ch as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
  • No — srf.ch 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.
  • Yes — srf.ch presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE1, valid for another 63 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
  • srf.ch resolves to an IP operated by Enflow B.V. in NL (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.
  • Yes — srf.ch ranks in the global top 100,000 most-visited sites, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. Genuine popularity doesn't automatically make a site safe, but throwaway scam domains almost never reach this level of traffic, so it's a meaningful point in the site's favour.
  • This report is a record of the scan run on July 14, 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 srf.ch 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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