SAFE

No specific threat detected

Official Erste Bank Croatia domain with clean scans and verified business registration.

Security Review

Is www.erste.hr legit or a scam?

Official Erste Bank Croatia domain with clean scans and verified business registration.

This is the official website of Erste&Steiermärkische Bank d.d., a major regulated Croatian bank. No antivirus engines flagged the domain and business registration confirms it is an active, legitimate financial institution. Users should still watch for phishing emails that impersonate the bank.

Cross-checked against 4 completed checks — none raised a concern
www.erste.hrScanned 1h ago
94/100
Trust score
0 = danger · 100 = safe
SAFE
Score breakdown
Heuristics 95·MT 93
Positive signals (2)
Antivirus clearNot on major blacklists

Analysis Summary

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

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Screenshot of www.erste.hr
LIVE RENDER
www.erste.hr

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

Intelligence

Editorial security brief
Intelligence
Low observed risktrust94/100
90%
Confidence
The domain www.erste.hr belongs to Erste&Steiermärkische Bank d.d., a long-established Croatian bank that is part of the international Erste Group. Zero of 92 antivirus engines flagged the site and browser blocklists returned clean results. Business registration records confirm the company is active in Croatia. The evidence package notes that the domain is the official corporate portal, not a scam site. The single scam report found refers to phishing campaigns that impersonate the bank rather than the domain itself being malicious. The combination of verified registration, clean technical scans, and explicit confirmation that this is the legitimate banking site supports a safe verdict.
Risk Factors
1
  • The bank brand is frequently impersonated in phishing campaigns targeting Croatian customers.
Positive Signals
3
  • Zero detections across 92 antivirus engines.
  • Business registration confirms active, legitimate Croatian bank.
  • Domain explicitly identified as the official Erste Bank Croatia portal.
Investigation notes

Page Content

The captured page is the official corporate website for Erste&Steiermärkische Bank d.d., providing banking services for private and corporate clients in Croatia. The domain serves as the primary online portal for the bank’s mBanking and card services.

Infrastructure

No antivirus engine among 92 scanned the domain as malicious or suspicious. Browser blocklist feeds returned clean. No redirects were observed and the URL shows no homoglyph or IDN manipulation.

Domain History

Business registration records list Erste&Steiermärkische Bank d.d. as an active company in Croatia and a member of the Erste Group. The domain is documented as the official banking portal rather than a newly created or suspicious registration.

Web Reputation

One report on Luminir describes phishing campaigns that impersonate Erste Bank Croatia with fake mBanking alerts. The report does not identify the domain itself as malicious. No complaints, negative reviews, or additional scam mentions were found.

What this means for you

The site is the legitimate online presence of a regulated Croatian bank. Exercise normal caution with any unsolicited emails or messages claiming to be from Erste Bank, as the brand is frequently targeted by phishers.

Recommendation
Use the site normally for official banking. Never enter credentials after clicking links in unsolicited emails or messages.
Editorial assessment
SpecificEvidence-led

Web Research Findings

Independent findings for www.erste.hr, 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.

Business registration
Active · Croatia
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
Key findings
5 headline facts from open-web research
  • Erste.hr is the official domain for Erste&Steiermärkische Bank d.d., a major Croatian bank and member of the international Erste Group.
  • The bank is a frequent target for phishing campaigns in Croatia, where attackers impersonate the brand to send fake banking alerts regarding mBanking or card issues.
  • The domain is used for official banking services, including corporate and private banking, and is not a scam site itself.
  • Erste Bank Croatia is a well-documented, regulated financial institution with a long history in the Croatian market.
  • Users should remain vigilant against phishing attempts that use the Erste Bank brand name, as these are common in the region.
Scam reports (1)
Direct quotes from public scam databases, forums, and news.
  • Luminiropen

    "PBZ / Erste HR phishing. Banking alerts about mBanking access or card issues. High."

Business registration
Status: active · Croatia

Erste&Steiermärkische Bank d.d. is a major, established financial institution in Croatia, part of the international Erste Group.

Research summary
Editorial synthesis of the sourced facts above
A single report on Luminir describes phishing attempts that impersonate Erste Bank Croatia with fake mBanking alerts. The evidence confirms the domain is the legitimate corporate portal of the regulated bank and not itself a scam site.

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.

0Malicious0Suspicious57Harmless92Engines
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 ↗

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 www.erste.hr and not a lookalike like w-ww.erste.hr.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.

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Final Verdict

94
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·www.erste.hr
SAFE

This is the official website of Erste&Steiermärkische Bank d.d., a major regulated Croatian bank. No antivirus engines flagged the domain and business registration confirms it is an active, legitimate financial institution. Users should still watch for phishing emails that impersonate the bank.

Use the site normally for official banking. Never enter credentials after clicking links in unsolicited emails or messages.

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 www.erste.hr, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
  • www.erste.hr passed our automated checks with a trust score of 94/100. 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 www.erste.hr), 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 www.erste.hr 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 www.erste.hr 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 — www.erste.hr 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.
  • This report is a record of the scan run on July 22, 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 www.erste.hr 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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