Is studentdealhub.com safe?

http://studentdealhub.com/

28/100
High Risk

Analysis coverage: strong · 3 of 5 core capabilities

Verdict

The domain is only 196 days old, carries a Fortinet phishing flag, and shows classic lead-gen scam patterns. Do not enter personal information or complete any offers.

The saved evidence contains significant warning signs that make sensitive interaction unsafe.

Read the full analysis
2 antivirus engines flagged this URLFortinet, Gridinsoft
Do not enter personal information or complete any offers on this page. Close the tab and avoid similar reward-lure sites.

01 · Investigation Brief

Investigation Brief

Fortinet flagged the URL as phishing while Gridinsoft marked it suspicious, giving the site one confirmed malicious detection out of 92 engines. No contact details, business address, or verifiable company information appear on the page. The combination of a new domain, brand impersonation, and a multi-step offer funnel that collects personal data raises the risk level to suspicious rather than outright malicious.

Why the score is 28

The score combines saved deterministic evidence with the grounded analysis available for this report. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.

02 · Security Evidence

Security evidence

Antivirus Engines

Saved result - stale

2 engines flagged this URL

Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.

Malicious
1
Suspicious
1
Total
92
Adverse antivirus results
EngineFinding
FortinetMaliciousphishing
GridinsoftSuspicioussuspicious
All 92 engine results
  • Fortinet - phishing - Malicious
  • Gridinsoft - suspicious - Suspicious
  • 0xSI_f33d - unrated - Clean
  • Abusix - clean - Clean
  • Acronis - clean - Clean
  • ADMINUSLabs - clean - Clean
  • AILabs (MONITORAPP) - clean - Clean
  • AlienVault - clean - Clean
  • alphaMountain.ai - unrated - Clean
  • AlphaSOC - unrated - Clean
  • Antiy-AVL - clean - Clean
  • ArcSight Threat Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • AutoShun - unrated - Clean
  • Bfore.Ai PreCrime - unrated - Clean
  • BitDefender - clean - Clean
  • Bkav - unrated - Clean
  • BlockList - clean - Clean
  • Blueliv - clean - Clean
  • Certego - clean - Clean
  • ChainPatrol - unrated - Clean
  • Chong Lua Dao - clean - Clean
  • CINS Army - clean - Clean
  • Cluster25 - unrated - Clean
  • CRDF - clean - Clean
  • Criminal IP - unrated - Clean
  • CSIS Security Group - unrated - Clean
  • CTX AI - clean - Clean
  • Cyan - unrated - Clean
  • Cyble - clean - Clean
  • CyRadar - clean - Clean
  • desenmascara.me - clean - Clean
  • DNS8 - unrated - Clean
  • Dr.Web - clean - Clean
  • EmergingThreats - clean - Clean
  • Emsisoft - clean - Clean
  • Ermes - unrated - Clean
  • ESET - clean - Clean
  • ESTsecurity - clean - Clean
  • Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - unrated - Clean
  • Fortra - unrated - Clean
  • G-Data - clean - Clean
  • GCP Abuse Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • Google Safe Browsing - clean - Clean
  • GreenSnow - clean - Clean
  • GreyNoise - unrated - Clean
  • Guardpot - unrated - Clean
  • Heimdal Security - clean - Clean
  • Hunt.io Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • IPsum - clean - Clean
  • Juniper Networks - clean - Clean
  • K7AntiVirus - unrated - Clean
  • Kaspersky - clean - Clean
  • LevelBlue - clean - Clean
  • Lionic - clean - Clean
  • Lumu - unrated - Clean
  • Malwared - clean - Clean
  • MalwarePatrol - clean - Clean
  • MalwareURL - unrated - Clean
  • Mimecast - unrated - Clean
  • Netcraft - unrated - Clean
  • OpenPhish - clean - Clean
  • PhishFort - unrated - Clean
  • Phishing Database - clean - Clean
  • Phishtank - clean - Clean
  • PREBYTES - clean - Clean
  • PrecisionSec - unrated - Clean
  • Quick Heal - clean - Clean
  • Quttera - clean - Clean
  • Rising - clean - Clean
  • SafeToOpen - unrated - Clean
  • Sangfor - clean - Clean
  • Sansec eComscan - unrated - Clean
  • Scantitan - clean - Clean
  • SCUMWARE.org - clean - Clean
  • Seclookup - clean - Clean
  • Snort IP sample list - unrated - Clean
  • SOCRadar - unrated - Clean
  • Sophos - clean - Clean
  • StopForumSpam - clean - Clean
  • Sucuri SiteCheck - clean - Clean
  • ThreatHive - clean - Clean
  • URLhaus - clean - Clean
  • URLQuery - unrated - Clean
  • Viettel Threat Intelligence - clean - Clean
  • VIPRE - unrated - Clean
  • ViriBack - clean - Clean
  • VX Vault - clean - Clean
  • Webroot - clean - Clean
  • Xcitium Verdict Cloud - clean - Clean
  • Yandex Safebrowsing - clean - Clean
  • ZeroCERT - clean - Clean
  • ZeroFox - unrated - Clean

Security Scans

Browser Threat Feed
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.

What we observed

Visual analysis

Visual warning signs were identified

The page uses classic scam tactics including fake social proof and high-value financial incentives to lure users into completing 'required offers', which is a common method for harvesting personal data or driving traffic to affiliate scams.

95/100 visual risk

What the captured page showed

5 observations
  1. 01

    Fake social proof notification claiming a user just claimed a reward

  2. 02

    High-pressure 'exclusive offer' for a large monetary reward

  3. 03

    Multi-step process requiring user to 'complete required offers' to claim a prize

  4. 04

    Use of a well-known retail brand logo (JD) to build false credibility

  5. 05

    Generic, high-incentive landing page pattern typical of lead-generation scams

03 · Investigation Story

Investigation story

The behavior, reputation, and operator evidence that explains how this site may affect a visitor.
  1. 1

    What the site claims

    Claim Your $750 JD Sports Exclusive Offer

  2. 2

    What we observed

    The page content was captured and checked alongside 92 antivirus results.

  3. 3

    What independent research found

    No complete independent-research result was available in this saved report.

  4. 4

    What remains unverified

    2 of the five core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.

If this is a scam — what it means for you

You were probably about to pay a fee to release your 'winnings'.

If it is, you didn't win — you can't win a draw you never entered. The 'tax' or 'processing' fee IS the scam, and the prize doesn't exist.

If this is a scam, how it works

The typical trap, step by step

This site is unverified — it may be legitimate. If it is a scam, this is the playbook pages like it follow:

  1. A message says you won a lottery or prize you never entered.

  2. To “release” the winnings you must first pay a “tax”, “processing”, or “insurance” fee.

  3. You pay — and they invent more fees.

  4. There's no prize; the fees were the entire scam.

If a site follows these steps, treat it as unsafe — close it and don't enter anything.

lottery scamConfidence: Moderate

Risk pattern correlation

Evidence correlation

Captured signals match known risk patterns

Moderate correlation

This view separates independent infrastructure evidence from pattern labels derived from the same captured page. Pattern matches add context, but they do not prove that the site belongs to a cross-domain scam network.

Correlation score
35/100
ClearLowModerateHighCritical
Evidence (2)
  • IP 185.158.133.1 has 35 abuse reports — likely part of a network.
  • Lottery-winner template detected with processing-fee bait.
Correlated evidence (1)
Template · Lottery Scam

Scam-Type Likelihood

Scam-Type Likelihood

1 of 21 categories showed signals

Each card names a specific harm pattern and the concrete facts that support it. The category score is supporting context; the report verdict above remains the final severity decision.

Top match: Lottery / Prize Scam
Lottery / Prize Scam
High likelihood
98/100
  • Tagged as a lottery / prize scam.
  • Lottery / 'you have won' prize-claim language.
  • Primary scraped category: lottery scam.
20Show remaining categories
Fake Giveaway12/100
Phishing10/100
MalwareNot detected
Investment ScamNot detected
Fake ShopNot detected
Tech Support ScamNot detected
Scareware & Fake Pop-upsNot detected
Crypto FraudNot detected
Crypto Casino / Gambling ScamNot detected
Piracy Site — High-Risk AdsNot detected
Cracked Software — Malware RiskNot detected
Recovery / Refund ScamNot detected
Gaming ScamNot detected
Pig-Butchering / Romance-CryptoNot detected
Subscription TrapNot detected
Dropshipping / Low-Quality RetailNot detected
Deceptive Supplement FunnelNot detected
Brand ImpersonationNot detected
Fake Celebrity EndorsementNot detected
Job / Task / Survey ScamNot detected

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

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

04 · Domain & Infrastructure

Domain & infrastructure

Timeline · identity · encryption · redirects · hosting

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.

Domainstudentdealhub.com
Redirects tostudentdealhub.com
Hosted byInternet Utilities Europe and Asia Limited
Referencesfonts.googleapis.com · fonts.gstatic.com

Domain Timeline

  1. Jan 12, 2026
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 7 months old today.

  2. Jul 28, 2026
    Saved security review — Flagged as suspicious

    The completed checks from this saved scan 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.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No direct contact email found on the captured page.
  • Scam family match: Lottery Scam.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age6 months old
RegistrarNameCheap, Inc.
RegisteredJan 12, 2026
ExpiresJan 12, 2027
Owner privacyUnknown
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerGoogle Trust Services · WE1
ExpiresOct 26, 2026 (89d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingInternet Utilities Europe and Asia Limited
Server locationPL
Web servercloudflare

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://studentdealhub.com/
  • 2200https://studentdealhub.com/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score64%
Reports on file35
ISPInternet Utilities Europe and Asia Limited
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Referenced Domains

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

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

Coverage, provenance, and source freshness remain separate so a missing check is never mistaken for a clean result.
Completed analysis

The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.

AntiviruspartialBrowser threat feedcompletePage contentcompleteAnalysiscompleteVisual evidenceunavailable

Technical threat

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

suspicious

Antivirus warning needs confirmation

Operator / customer risk

Complaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.

suspicious

Additional evidence review

Source coverage and freshness

Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.

Antivirus
Result: 2 of 92 engines flagged
Limited
Adverse
Freshness: stale fallback · Jul 28, 2026
Browser protection
Result: No browser threat-list match
Completed
No adverse finding
Page content
Result: Page fetched · HTTP 200
Completed
No adverse finding
Visual evidence
Result: 5 visible observations saved with the page capture
Limited
Adverse
Independent research
Result: Independent research was not available for this report
Unavailable
No saved finding

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

Suspicious prize / lottery claim

You can't win a lottery or prize you never entered, and real prizes are never released only after you pay a fee.

  • Treat studentdealhub.com as unverified

    Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.

  • Never pay a fee to claim a prize

    "Tax", "processing", "insurance", or "release" fees to collect winnings are the scam itself — a real prize is always free to collect.

  • Don't share ID or bank details to "verify"

    The forms exist to harvest your identity and payment info. A genuine lottery contacts winners through official, verifiable channels.

  • Report the message or site

    Report to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov) or Action Fraud (UK), and to the MalwareTips community.

    Open
Final verdictLevel 4 of 5
28/100 safety

High Risk

The domain is only 196 days old, carries a Fortinet phishing flag, and shows classic lead-gen scam patterns. Do not enter personal information or complete any offers.

The saved evidence contains significant warning signs that make sensitive interaction unsafe.

  1. 01

    Fortinet flagged the URL as phishing.

  2. 02

    Domain registered only 196 days ago with privacy-protected ownership.

  3. 03

    No contact email, phone, address, or company registration visible on the page.

Do not enter personal information or complete any offers on this page. Close the tab and avoid similar reward-lure sites.
Evidence balance8 signals
Positive
2
Limited
3
Risk
3
Analysis coverage
75%
strong coverage
Core capabilities
3/5
completed checks
Source coverage
2/5
sources complete
Evidence checks
4/8
completed checks flagged
Technical threatSUSPICIOUS55/100 risk
Operator / customer riskSUSPICIOUS55/100 risk
Safety range

Saved evidence only. Missing checks are never treated as a clean result.

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07 · Community

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08 · 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 studentdealhub.com a scam or a legit prize / lottery site?
studentdealhub.com raises serious red flags as a lottery / prize scam — avoid interacting with it. Our review tagged it for lottery scam and data harvester. 2 of 92 security engines flag it (1 as outright malicious). The domain is 6 months old through NameCheap, Inc.. It may not be an outright scam, but the risk is high enough that you should verify it independently before trusting it with money or data.
Is studentdealhub.com safe to use?
studentdealhub.com has a Safety Score of 28/100 (High Risk). Analysis coverage is strong at 75%. Avoid login, payment and downloads.
I already paid or entered my details on studentdealhub.com — what should I do?
If you've already paid or handed over details on studentdealhub.com, 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 studentdealhub.com 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.
Can I get my money back from studentdealhub.com?
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.
studentdealhub.com says I won a prize — is it real?
No — you can't win a lottery or prize you never entered. The tell is being asked to pay a "tax," "processing," or "release" fee, or to hand over ID and bank details, before you can collect. Real prizes are free to claim. Don't pay anything or share personal information; the fee and the form ARE the scam.
How do I report studentdealhub.com?
You can report studentdealhub.com 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.
studentdealhub.com looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
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.
Has studentdealhub.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Yes. 2 of 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged studentdealhub.com, 1 of them as outright malicious. Even a single detection from a reputable engine is a meaningful warning, and multiple detections rarely happen by accident.
Is studentdealhub.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — studentdealhub.com 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.
How old is the studentdealhub.com domain?
studentdealhub.com is 6 months old, registered on January 12, 2026 through NameCheap, Inc.. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
Does studentdealhub.com have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — studentdealhub.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, valid for another 89 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".
How often is the studentdealhub.com report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on July 28, 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 studentdealhub.com has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.