Is webftp.phpwebhosting.com safe?
http://webftp.phpwebhosting.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (78 of 87 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
phpwebhosting WebFTP is a long-standing browser-based FTP utility with no detections, but it does not disclose who operates it.
The page at webftp.phpwebhosting.com is a branded installation of the open-source net2ftp web-based FTP client, presented as "phpwebhosting WebFTP login". It is a free utility: visitors enter their own FTP server address, port, username and password to manage files through the browser. Technical checks are clean — no threat warning, a valid encrypted connection, and a hosting IP with no abuse reports — and the registrable domain is 9943 days old. The main weakness is transparency: the captured page provides no direct contact email and does not disclose the operator behind the phpwebhosting.com domain. Because the site is a working utility with a long-standing domain and no adverse findings, but with an undisclosed operator, it sits in the Low Risk band rather than Safe.
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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 78/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. 1 finding pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- MinorThe captured page contains no direct contact email, and the operator behind the domain is not disclosed.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 9943 days old, consistent with a long-standing host rather than a newly created throwaway domain.
- SupportsNo threat warning from the browser threat feed, a valid encrypted connection, and a hosting IP with an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across 0 saved reports.
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
The page at webftp.phpwebhosting.com is a branded installation of the open-source net2ftp web-based FTP client, presented as "phpwebhosting WebFTP login". It is a free utility: visitors enter their own FTP server address, port, username and password to manage files through the browser. Technical checks are clean — no threat warning, a valid encrypted connection, and a hosting IP with no abuse reports — and the registrable domain is 9943 days old. The main weakness is transparency: the captured page provides no direct contact email and does not disclose the operator behind the phpwebhosting.com domain. Because the site is a working utility with a long-standing domain and no adverse findings, but with an undisclosed operator, it sits in the Low Risk band rather than Safe.
A browser FTP client, not a shop or a sign-up service
The captured page is titled "phpwebhosting WebFTP login" and shows a single form for connecting to an FTP server: server address, port, username, password, passive mode, initial directory, SSL and language options. There is no product catalogue, no checkout, no subscription plan and no account creation flow on the page.
The footer identifies the software as "Powered by net2ftp - a web based FTP client", which matches the open-source tool the page is built on. The site's own note tells visitors that webFTP is not a replacement for a "real" FTP client, that it is useful when a regular client is not at hand, and that large file uploads over webFTP are not reliable. That is an honest limitation statement rather than a sales pitch.
Clean technical checks, but the operator is not named
The saved technical checks found no threat warning from the browser threat feed, a valid encrypted connection, and a hosting IP with an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across 0 saved reports. The registrable domain is 9943 days old, which is consistent with a long-standing host rather than a throwaway domain. These are absence-of-detection results, not proof that the service is trustworthy.
The clearest adverse point is transparency: the captured page contains no direct contact email, and the operator behind the phpwebhosting.com domain is not disclosed. That does not by itself indicate a scam, but it means a visitor cannot easily verify who runs the service or how to reach them if something goes wrong.
What happens when a visitor uses the login form
A visitor who wants to use the service types their FTP server address, port, username and password into the form and submits it. Those credentials are then used by the web application to open a connection to the FTP server the visitor named.
The site itself warns that large file uploads are not reliable over webFTP and that the tool is intended for temporary use when a dedicated FTP client is unavailable. A visitor relying on it for a large transfer may therefore find the upload fails or is incomplete.
Why the score is 78
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
0/ 87
No detectionsSaved analysis from July 7, 2022 - stale
No detections across 78 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 9 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 87
All 87 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AICC (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- Artists Against 419 - Clean
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Avira - Clean
- BADWARE.INFO - Clean
- benkow.cc - Clean
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Clean
- BitDefender - Clean
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CMC Threat Intelligence - Clean
- Comodo Valkyrie Verdict - Unrated
- CRDF - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- CyberCrime - Clean
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Clean
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- ESET - Clean
- Feodo Tracker - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hoplite Industries - Clean
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Clean
- Kaspersky - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- MalBeacon - Clean
- MalSilo - Clean
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- malwares.com URL checker - Clean
- Netcraft - Unrated
- Nucleon - Clean
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- SecureBrain - Clean
- securolytics - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Clean
- Sophos - Clean
- Spam404 - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- ThreatHive - Clean
- Threatsourcing - Clean
- Trustwave - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- ViriBack - Clean
- Virusdie External Site Scan - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Web Security Guard - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
How security vendors categorise this site
- Comodo Valkyrie Verdictunknown
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerweb hosting
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
phpwebhosting WebFTP login
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
phpwebhosting WebFTP login
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
net2ftp - a web based FTP client
- Meta description
net2ftp is a web based FTP client. It is mainly aimed at managing websites using a browser. Edit code, upload/download files, copy/move/delete directories recursively, rename files and directories -- without installing any software.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Support / FAQ/help.htmlRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
net2ftp - a web based FTP client
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 78 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
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The captured page contains no direct contact email, and the operator behind the domain is not disclosed.
- 02The registrable domain is 9943 days old, consistent with a long-standing host rather than a newly created throwaway domain.
- 03No threat warning from the browser threat feed, a valid encrypted connection, and a hosting IP with an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across 0 saved reports.
Web research findings
Independent findings for webftp.phpwebhosting.com, 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 webftp.phpwebhosting.com. 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.
- Domainwebftp.phpwebhosting.com
- Redirects towebftp.phpwebhosting.com
- Hosted byInternap Holding LLC
- Referencesnet2ftp.com · filezilla-project.org
Domain Timeline
- Jul 31, 1999Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 27 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 20, 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.
webftp.phpwebhosting.com has operated for years and this review found no material threat — a long track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
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.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for *.phpwebhosting.com.
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.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The captured page contains no direct contact email, and the operator behind the domain is not disclosed.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 87 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Jul 7, 2022 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 20, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 87 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Jul 7, 2022
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 20, 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 webftp.phpwebhosting.com a scam or is it safe?
Is webftp.phpwebhosting.com safe to use?
Has webftp.phpwebhosting.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is webftp.phpwebhosting.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the webftp.phpwebhosting.com domain?
Does webftp.phpwebhosting.com have a valid SSL certificate?
Where is webftp.phpwebhosting.com hosted?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
phpwebhosting WebFTP is a long-standing browser-based FTP utility with no detections, but it does not disclose who operates it.
The page at webftp.phpwebhosting.com is a branded installation of the open-source net2ftp web-based FTP client, presented as "phpwebhosting WebFTP login". It is a free utility: visitors enter their own FTP server address, port, username and password to manage files through the browser. Technical checks are clean — no threat warning, a valid encrypted connection, and a hosting IP with no abuse reports — and the registrable domain is 9943 days old. The main weakness is transparency: the captured page provides no direct contact email and does not disclose the operator behind the phpwebhosting.com domain. Because the site is a working utility with a long-standing domain and no adverse findings, but with an undisclosed operator, it sits in the Low Risk band rather than Safe.
09 · Community
Community
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