Security Review

Is worm-consulting.de legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 85/100

Worm Marketing Consulting is a verified German B2B agency with active business registration since 2008 and positive professional reviews.

worm-consulting.deScanned 2h ago
0
Trust score
SAFE
Heuristics 69·MT 92
View density

Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
Registration date unknown
MT Intelligence
Safe
Low likelihood · 95% confidence
SAFE

No threats detected

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

Website Preview

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Visual Screenshot 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 page appears to be a legitimate German marketing consultancy website with standard professional UI elements and a typical cookie consent banner.

Visual risk5/100

What our vision model saw

5 signals

Standard GDPR-compliant cookie consent modal overlaying the content

Professional corporate branding for 'WORM Marketing Consulting'

Coherent navigation menu with links to Branches, Cases, and Careers

Clear call-to-action buttons for scheduling consultations

Consistent typography and high-quality layout design

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust92/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The domain belongs to an established German company, Worm Marketing Consulting GmbH, which has been officially registered in Munich since 2008. Our technical scan shows a clean record across all major antivirus engines and no history of abuse on its hosting IP. Independent professional platforms show a high recommendation rate from employees and clients alike, citing professional B2B lead generation services. While our automated crawler noted a request for push notifications, this appears to be a standard marketing tool rather than a malicious vector in this context. The presence of a valid legal imprint and consistent corporate branding further confirms its legitimacy.
Full dossier
Analysis complete

Page Content

The website serves as a professional storefront for a B2B marketing agency specializing in the IT and industrial sectors. It features detailed case studies, a career portal with active job listings, and clear contact information including a physical office address in Munich.

Infrastructure

The site is hosted on a clean IP address with no history of malicious activity or abuse reports. It utilizes a valid SSL certificate and integrates standard business tools like Calendly and LinkedIn without any suspicious external scripts.

Domain History

The domain is associated with a company that has been operational since 2005, with formal GmbH registration dating back to 2008. This long-term stability is a strong indicator of a legitimate business operation rather than a temporary scam site.

Web Reputation

Professional review aggregators show a 4.2/5 rating from employees and a perfect 5.0/5 from clients. There are no recorded complaints, scam reports, or legal warnings associated with this domain across major consumer protection databases.
Risk Factors
1
  • The site requests browser push-notification permissions, which can be intrusive but is not inherently malicious here.
Positive Signals
5
  • Verified German business registration (HRB 176414) active since 2008.
  • Zero detections across 92 antivirus engines in our network.
  • Positive reputation on independent employee and client review platforms.
  • Physical office address and management details are transparently listed in the legal imprint.
  • Long-term domain and business history spanning nearly two decades.
AI Recommendation
This site is safe for professional use. You can proceed with scheduling consultations or contacting the firm through their official channels.
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 worm-consulting.de, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration
Active · Germany
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
3 positive
Key findings
7 headline facts from open-web research
  • Legally registered German GmbH (HRB 176414, Amtsgericht München) since November 2008 with €25,000 capital; active, address in Munich, managed by Sebastian Worm-Paradiek.
  • Operates since 2005 as B2B lead generation, marketing consulting, and sales support agency focused on IT, software, and industrial/machinery sectors; claims 250+ clients and case studies with companies like MVTec, TRUMPF, Oracle.
  • Positive employee rating of 4.2/5 on kununu (23 reviews, 86% recommendation in last 2 years) with praise for learning opportunities, onboarding, and respectful atmosphere; some criticism on pay and development.
  • Client/service provider rating of 5.0/5 on feedbax.de based on 6 reviews with comments like "Überlegenes Marketing", "Top Agentur!".
  • No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions found across searches for betrug, scam, abmahnung, or push-notification spam.
  • Official imprint confirms registration details, VAT ID DE262330701, and standard German disclaimers; LinkedIn, Northdata, and job sites (Glassdoor, join.com) corroborate existence and operations.
  • Detected "Push-Notification Spam" family appears unrelated; no web search evidence links the domain to malicious push notifications, browser spam, or scam campaigns.
Positive reviews (3)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • kununu.comopen

    "Worm Marketing Consulting wird als Arbeitgeber von Mitarbeiter:innen und Bewerber:innen mit durchschnittlich 4,2 von 5 Punkten bewertet. ... 86 % Weiterempfehlung Letzte 2 Jahre"

  • feedbax.deopen

    "5.0 rating from 6 reviews ... "Überlegenes Marketing", "Sehr gut in dem was sie machen", "Top Agentur!""

  • worm-consulting.de (case studies)open

    "Die Herangehensweise, die Worm Marketing Consulting hat, unterscheidet sich schon deutlich von anderen und ist weitaus professioneller ... (Communardo testimonial)"

Business registration
Status: active · Germany

Worm Marketing Consulting GmbH, registered HRB 176414 at Amtsgericht München since 27.11.2008 (Gesellschaftsvertrag), Stammkapital 25.000 €, address Oetztaler Str. 1, 81373 München, Geschäftsführer Sebastian Worm-Paradiek. Active with updates through 2022.

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above
We verified that Worm Marketing Consulting GmbH is a legally registered entity in Germany (Amtsgericht München, HRB 176414) with a share capital of €25,000. Employee reviews on platforms like kununu show an 86% recommendation rate, praising the professional atmosphere and onboarding. Client testimonials from established firms like Communardo and MVTec further validate their B2B lead generation services. No negative mentions or scam warnings were identified in our search of consumer protection sources.

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.

0Malicious0Suspicious58Harmless92Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not in pass
ESET-NOD32
Not in pass
Avira
Not in pass
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Clean
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.

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 a contact email on its own domain
Emails on site's domainworm@worm-consulting.de
Phone numbers+49 89 2306930-00
Postal addressPresent
Linked social profiles1
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • Page requests browser push-notification permission — common malvertising vector.
  • Scam family match: Push-Notification Spam.
  • Contact email on the site's own domain (worm@worm-consulting.de).
  • Phone number listed (+49 89 2306930-00).
  • Postal address visible on the page.

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · R12
ExpiresAug 12, 2026 (45d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingCombell NV
Server locationBE
Web servernginx
Platform / CMSWordPress

Redirect Chain

Hops
2
Cross-domain
Yes
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://worm-consulting.de/
  • 2301https://worm-consulting.de/
  • 3200https://www.worm-consulting.de/cross-domain

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPCombell NV
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

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 worm-consulting.de and not a lookalike like w-orm-consulting.de.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.

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Reputation Sources

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

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

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 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 worm-consulting.de. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
  • worm-consulting.de passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 85/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
  • Yes. worm-consulting.de presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 45 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
  • No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report worm-consulting.de as clean.
  • No. worm-consulting.de is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
  • worm-consulting.de resolves to an IP operated by Combell NV in BE (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.
  • This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 28, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around worm-consulting.de have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Final Verdict

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Trust / 100
Final Verdict·worm-consulting.de
SAFE

This is a legitimate German marketing consultancy with a long-standing business history and positive professional reputation. Our analysis confirms it is a verified B2B service provider based in Munich. You can safely interact with this site for business inquiries.

This site is safe for professional use. You can proceed with scheduling consultations or contacting the firm through their official channels.

AV engines
92
MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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