No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is www.whitehouse.gov legit or a scam?
www.whitehouse.gov is an established, widely-visited domain and our deterministic checks all came back clean.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
www.whitehouse.gov is an established, widely-visited domain with no adversarial signals from any of our deterministic checks: VirusTotal is clean, Google Safe Browsing is clean, no regulator or staff blacklist warnings, no scam-family patterns in the page content, no brand impersonation, and no credential-harvest patterns. Cloudflare Radar lists it inside the global top-100k of the most-visited domains. We surfaced the verdict immediately instead of running the AI analyst pipeline.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
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.
The page visually mimics whitehouse.gov
Visually polished but clearly impersonates the official White House site using fake branding, mismatched navigation, and a bogus app promo indicative of a scam.
What our vision model saw
4 signalsImpersonates White House with header logo 'The White House' and navigation mimicking official site
Suspicious navigation items 'Investments', 'Save America', 'MH wire' absent from real whitehouse.gov
Prominent banner urging download of fake 'Official White House App'
Hero image depicts men in tan uniforms and cowboy hats on horseback, inconsistent with official government imagery
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for www.whitehouse.gov, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for www.whitehouse.gov and did not find scam reports, complaints, or impersonation signals. The domain age, registration record and aggregator reviews shown above are consistent with a legitimate site.
Scam Network Intelligence
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.
- Links to 11 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
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.
- Visual clone of whitehouse.gov detected in the screenshot.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
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.
- Visual clone of whitehouse.gov detected in the screenshot.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
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.whitehouse.gov and not a lookalike like w-ww.whitehouse.gov.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.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Trust History
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 www.whitehouse.gov. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- www.whitehouse.gov passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 70/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. www.whitehouse.gov presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E8, expiring in 45 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- www.whitehouse.gov is 28.6 years old, registered on 10/1/1997 through get.gov. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 93 antivirus engines in our malware network report www.whitehouse.gov as clean.
- No. www.whitehouse.gov is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- www.whitehouse.gov resolves to an IP operated by Automattic, 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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