mcafee-security-antivirus-vpn.appwesome.com
Category: Phishing
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Description of mcafee-security-antivirus-vpn.appwesome.com
This domain appears to be a subdomain hosted under appwesome.com and uses wording associated with McAfee-branded security software, antivirus, and VPN services. Based on the domain structure and the available category data, it may be presenting itself as a technology or security-related page, but multiple classification sources also associate it with phishing-related activity.
The site does not appear to be a major established web property and has no reported Tranco ranking in the provided data, which may indicate limited traffic or recent/low-profile usage. Its use of a well-known security brand name within a third-party subdomain could suggest an attempt to attract users looking for antivirus or account-related services rather than an official brand-operated website.
Safety Assessment for mcafee-security-antivirus-vpn.appwesome.com
Several scan signals indicate elevated risk at the time of this scan. The domain was flagged by 6 out of 91 security engines, with multiple detections describing it as phishing or malicious. In addition, more than one web-classification source categorized the site as phishing or fraud-related, although some providers labeled it more generically as technology or information technology.
The domain name closely resembles the branding of a well-known cybersecurity company while being hosted as a subdomain on a different parent domain, which may indicate a look-alike or impersonation attempt. That pattern can be concerning even when some malware-content scans report no infected files. Blacklist and threat-database checks were otherwise clean at the time of this scan, and no malicious files or flagged outbound links were reported in the provided page scan.
Following a manual review by the PCRisk team, the published trust score has been adjusted to 19/100 based on additional context. Based on these findings, this website may pose potential risks to visitors.
Technical Description
The site is served through Cloudflare infrastructure on IP address 104.18.25.28, with hosting geolocated to Toronto, Canada in the provided data. It uses a valid SSL/TLS certificate issued by Google Trust Services, expiring on 2026-10-02, which indicates encrypted transport was available at the time of the scan. The web server is reported as Cloudflare, and the nameservers also point to Cloudflare-managed DNS.
DNSSEC appears to be unsigned, which is not uncommon but does mean DNS responses do not benefit from DNSSEC validation. No DNS-based blocklist hits were reported in the supplied checks. The main technical concern is therefore not the transport security setup, but the domain naming pattern and reputation signals associated with phishing-related detections.
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