appen-job[.]com

This report details the technical threat assessment for the domain appen-job.com. The site was titled "mall" and categorized as a Job Scam. Despite its name suggesting a connection to the legitimate Appen employment platform, the page title indicates it was likely a deceptive portal designed to impersonate a job-related service. The primary threat posed was social engineering, as confirmed by Google Safe Browsing, which flagged the domain for that specific attack vector. The site aimed to trick users into providing personal or financial information under the pretense of employment opportunities.

Technical evidence from the provided data shows the domain was flagged by 10 out of 95 VirusTotal vendors. The detection was confirmed by multiple security vendors including alphaMountain.ai, BitDefender, CRDF, Fortinet, and G-Data. Google Safe Browsing explicitly flagged the site for "SOCIAL_ENGINEERING." The domain was registered through Hello Internet Corp and was created on 2025-08-26. It was hosted on IP address 185.170.215.122, which is located in Great Britain and belongs to AS202448 MVPS LTD. The site had no SSL certificate and only one nameserver. It was listed on one blocklist. Trust scores were low, with GridinSoft rating it 0/100 and ScamAdviser rating it 55/100.

The current status of the domain is DOWN/OFFLINE, indicating it is no longer accessible. The overall risk level is assessed as high based on the confirmed social engineering flag, the number of vendor detections, and the extremely low trust scores. Users who may have interacted with this site should be advised to monitor for potential phishing or fraud attempts.