quietmercer.com
Category: Phishing
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Description of quietmercer.com
quietmercer.com appears to be a newly registered website that, at the time of this scan, displays a page styled to resemble Google's homepage. The visible content includes familiar Google navigation elements such as "About," "Store," "Gmail," "Images," and a "Sign in" button, along with a large Google-style logo and search box. Based on the page presentation and metadata, the site appears intended to imitate a major web search and account portal rather than present an independent brand or service of its own.
The available scan notes indicate that the page presents itself as a well-known company it does not belong to and may ask visitors to log in or provide payment, account, card, or identity details. That behavior is commonly associated with credential-harvesting or payment phishing pages. The domain itself does not appear connected to Google's official domain, and the site does not show evidence of being operated by the legitimate brand it visually references.
Safety Assessment for quietmercer.com
At the time of this scan, automated malware and blacklist checks did not detect malicious files or direct blacklist listings, and no security engines flagged the domain. However, those signals are only one part of the picture. The page itself appears to be a phishing-style website posing as Google, using Google's branding and layout while operating from an unrelated domain. A site that imitates a major brand and prompts users to sign in or submit sensitive details may present a significant risk even when broad malware scanners have not yet flagged it.
Additional context increases concern: the domain is very new, has no established traffic ranking, and appears to rely on a challenge page path associated with access filtering. Newly created domains that imitate well-known services can sometimes evade automated detections for a period of time. Based on these findings, this website may pose potential risks to visitors.
Technical Description
The domain is hosted behind Cloudflare infrastructure and resolves to an IP address associated with that network. It uses a valid SSL/TLS certificate issued by a mainstream certificate authority, which means the connection appears encrypted in transit; however, encryption alone does not verify that the site is operated by the brand it imitates. The web server is identified as "gws," and the observed link includes a challenge-platform path that suggests bot or browser verification may be in use.
WHOIS data indicates the domain was created recently and is registered through Spaceship, Inc. DNSSEC appears to be unsigned at the time of this scan. No malware files, flagged external links, or blacklist-database hits were reported in the provided scan data, but the primary concern here appears to be deceptive page content rather than server-side malware indicators.
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