sweepsphere.click
Category: Phishing
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Description of sweepsphere.click
sweepsphere.click appears to be a recently registered website on the .click top-level domain. Based on the available classification data, it is associated with phishing and fraudulent activity rather than a clearly established business, media, or informational service. The domain name suggests a sweepstakes- or prize-related theme, which is a pattern sometimes seen on promotional or lead-generation pages, although the exact site content is not provided here.
The domain was registered through a commercial registrar and is hosted on cloud infrastructure in the United States. It does not appear to have an established web presence or strong traffic footprint, and its young age may indicate a short-lived campaign site rather than a long-standing organization-operated website.
Safety Assessment for sweepsphere.click
Multiple independent signals indicate elevated risk at the time of this scan. The domain was flagged by 11 out of 92 security engines, with several classifying it as phishing or otherwise malicious. In addition, multiple web-classification providers categorized the site as phishing or fraud-related, and it was listed by major threat-database checks for social-engineering activity. Those are stronger warning signs than a generic heuristic alone.
The domain is also very new, at only 78 days old, which may increase caution because phishing pages often rely on recently created domains. While the malware scan available here did not detect malicious files and found no flagged external links or iframes, that does not outweigh the broader phishing-related detections and blacklist listings. Based on these findings, this website may pose potential risks to visitors.
Technical Description
The site is using a valid Let's Encrypt SSL certificate that was active at the time of the scan, which means connections may be encrypted in transit. However, HTTPS alone does not indicate legitimacy. The domain is hosted on Google Cloud infrastructure in the us-east1 region, with the server IP resolving to 34.74.215.184. The web server software and supported protocol details were not identified in the provided scan data.
DNSSEC appears to be unsigned, so the domain does not currently show DNSSEC protection in the available records. No DNS-based mail-reputation blocklist hits were reported in this scan. The main technical concern is not the hosting setup itself, but the combination of recent registration, cloud-hosted deployment, and repeated phishing-related detections across security systems.
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