No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is web-check.xyz legit or a scam?
Open-source OSINT website analysis tool on a 2.8-year-old domain with clean security scans and positive developer-community mentions.
Analysis Summary
AI Security Analysis
The site presents itself as Web Check, an all-in-one tool for DNS, SSL, headers, and security checks that directly matches a public GitHub repository. Our antivirus network returned zero detections and the hosting IP carries an abuse score of zero. The domain is over 1047 days old with valid SSL from Google Trust Services. Evidence from our research shows two positive assessments and multiple recommendations on developer forums with zero scam reports or complaints. The single brand-impersonation flag appears to be a false positive triggered by example URLs rather than any actual cloning behavior.
Website Preview
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Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for web-check.xyz, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- - Domain web-check.xyz hosts open-source OSINT website analysis tool, GitHub repo lissy93/web-check
- - Domain age approximately 1047 days (~2.87 years) as provided
- - Multiple positive mentions and recommendations on Reddit, Hacker News, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook
- - Scamadviser trust assessment: 'very likely not a scam but legit and reliable'
- - No scam reports, complaints, or malware associations found in searches
- - Features listed match GitHub project: DNS, headers, SSL, ports, security checks, etc.
- - Self-hosting via Docker supported; public instance at web-check.xyz
Our research found the domain hosts a known open-source OSINT tool with matching GitHub repository. Two positive assessments describe it as legit and reliable. Multiple recommendations appear on Reddit, Hacker News, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook. No scam reports, complaints, or malware associations were located.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
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.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page impersonates OpenAI / ChatGPT on a non-official domain.
- Links to 3 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1308http://web-check.xyz/
- 2200https://web-check.xyz/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 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.
- Page mentions OpenAI / ChatGPT (non-official domain).
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 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.
- Page mentions OpenAI / ChatGPT (non-official domain).
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 web-check.xyz and not a lookalike like w-eb-check.xyz.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on web-check.xyz. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- web-check.xyz passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 83/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. web-check.xyz presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 46 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- web-check.xyz is 2.9 years old, registered on 7/22/2023 through Cloudflare, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report web-check.xyz as clean.
- No. web-check.xyz is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- web-check.xyz resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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