Website reputation report

upcounsel.com

Last checked 1 day ago · Point-in-time assessment

● Evidence is limited

What is this website?

upcounsel.com is currently classified in the Legal Services category based on observed public pages. An About page was also found. The sampled pages were marked as English-language. Recurring page-metadata topics include attorneys, lawyers, legal.

No listed local patterns observedHomepage-only analysis is not a malware clearance. Read the scope and findings below.

77/100Safety Score
75%Evidence Confidence
Trust Radar evidence profile Eight evidence dimensions from zero to one hundred. Exact values surround the chart. Threat Intelligence55 Domain History93 Infrastructure95 Website Security95 Security Hygiene80 Transparency52 Reputation50 Operational Stability85
Trust RadarEight observed factors. Select one to inspect its evidence.

How to read this report

Safety Score evaluates observed signals. Evidence Confidence measures how complete, direct, fresh, and consistent those signals are.

No automated scan can guarantee that a website is safe.

Independent evidence brief

What we observed about upcounsel.com

Updated Sep 30, 2026

The latest scan examined 10 public pages on upcounsel.com. Website descriptions below come from the site itself. Registration, connection and threat findings were checked separately.

Purpose and visible content

On its homepage, the site says: Find and hire expert attorneys on demand tailored to your business needs. Access vetted lawyers on UpCounsel for expert legal services & free legal…

Registrar and domain history

Registered on Sep 22, 2011. Registrar: NameCheap, Inc..

Recorded expiry date: Sep 22, 2027. Registry data can change.

Connection and hosting evidence

The checked homepage returned HTTP 200 in about 1000 ms.

A valid TLS certificate was observed, expiring Dec 17, 2026.

Threat checks and score context

External malware-provider coverage was unavailable. The report does not treat this missing check as a clean result.

Safety Score: 77/100. Evidence Confidence: 75%. These measure different things.

Public content profile

Pages reviewed on upcounsel.com

10 of up to 10 pages

We sampled public pages from this website to understand its subject and contact paths. The titles and short descriptions below come from the website itself. They are not endorsements or independent safety findings.

UpCounsel: Expert Legal Services and Free Legal DocumentsFind and hire expert attorneys on demand tailored to your business needs. Access vetted lawyers on UpCounsel for expert legal services & free legal documents. About UpCounsel - Online Legal Workplacehttps://upcounsel.com/about Contact Form & Address - UpCounselContact UpCounsel with your questions or comments, we'd love to hear from you! If you'd like legal assistance, please Post a Job Legal Features and Business Tools | UpCounselExplore UpCounsel's features and legal tools for businesses, including contracts, compliance, and more. See how UpCounsel supports your legal needs. How it Works: Affordable Legal Help Made Easy | UpCounselLearn how UpCounsel's platform streamlines the process of finding and hiring an on-demand lawyer and provides expert legal help for any case big or small. Best Business Attorneys | Online Business Lawyers | UpCounselFind and hire the best business lawyers in your state with our online business attorney network. You can find the right legal help at UpCounsel! Online C-Corporation Attorneys | Best C-Corp Lawyers by StateFind expert C Corporation attorneys for formation, tax planning & more. Connect with UpCounsel's top C-Corp lawyers in your state today for your legal support needs. Best Contract Lawyers | Online Contract Attorneys | UpCounselFind skilled contract attorneys for review, negotiation, and more. Connect with UpCounsel’s trusted contract lawyers in your state for reliable legal support. Best Copyright Lawyers | Online Copyright Attorneys | UpCounselFind the best copyright lawyers for copyright registration, protection, and disputes. Connect with UpCounsel’s trusted copyright attorneys in your state. Compare Best Employment Lawyers | UpCounselFind the Best Employment Lawyers online for free on UpCounsel and receive custom quotes in 24 hours. Complete information about lawyers, including fees, degrees, and jurisdictions.

Public page evidence

Topics and keywords observed on upcounsel.com

12 phrases

These phrases were extracted locally from sampled public page metadata. They are observations, not search-volume or ranking estimates.

attorneysTitle, H1, Meta description6 sampled pages
lawyersTitle, H1, Meta description6 sampled pages
legalTitle, H1, Meta description8 sampled pages
businessTitle, H1, Meta description3 sampled pages
stateTitle, Meta description4 sampled pages
expertTitle, H1, Meta description3 sampled pages
legal helpTitle, H1, Meta description2 sampled pages
lawyers inMeta description3 sampled pages
expert legalTitle, Meta description2 sampled pages
on demandH1, Meta description2 sampled pages
connectMeta description3 sampled pages
needsMeta description3 sampled pages

At a glance

Key findings

✓

Report is current

The displayed evidence comes from the published immutable scan.

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Confidence is separate

Unavailable evidence is shown as missing and never counted as clean.

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Verify before sensitive actions

Check the exact URL and context before payments, credentials, or downloads.

Fully explainable

Why this score?

Versioned weights
Threat IntelligenceWeight 25%
55/100

Threat providers were unavailable. The neutral uncertainty baseline is not a clean verdict.

Domain HistoryWeight 10%
93/100

Domain registration age and expiry were checked.

InfrastructureWeight 10%
95/100

Observed DNS records and network address were checked.

Website SecurityWeight 15%
95/100

Observed certificate validity and TLS protocol were checked.

Security HygieneWeight 15%
80/100

Observed security header values were checked for basic protective settings. Empty values, disabled HSTS and unrecognized values receive no credit. This is not a complete browser-policy validation.

TransparencyWeight 5%
52/100

Observed site metadata and About page were checked. Publisher-supplied details are not independently verified.

ReputationWeight 5%
50/100

Popularity is weak context, not proof of safety. Unranked sites use a neutral baseline.

Operational StabilityWeight 15%
85/100

Observed HTTP status and final connection scheme were checked.

Server-side analysis

Automated security checks

Local antivirus and phishing checks

ClamAV · homepage HTMLNo signature match in the sampled HTML
Engine version1.5.4
Signature database date (UTC)2026-09-29T06:26:15+00:00
HTML bytes submitted75,622
Phishing.Database · exact hostnameNot listed in this snapshot
Feed downloaded (UTC)2026-09-30T06:00:08+00:00
Hosts in local snapshot386,017

Sampled scripts and pages

Resource analysis incomplete

6 resources checked · 8 script links observed on the homepage. Partial resource coverage.

ClamAV inspects the fetched homepage HTML on our server. New scans also sample up to four linked scripts and two collected internal pages, with size and time limits. Scripts are not executed. Other downloads, private server files and logged-in pages remain outside this check. A signature match needs investigation and can be a false positive. No match is not a whole-site safety guarantee.

Exact hostname lookup uses a downloaded Phishing.Database snapshot. It does not send this domain to an external lookup API or mark sibling subdomains as harmful. Not listed does not mean safe. Snapshot age is download age, not proof that every entry was recently revalidated.

Homepage HTML only · Eight local rule families · local-security-v2

Checks use the fetched page and redirect chain. Scripts are not executed, forms are not submitted, and linked files are not downloaded. This is not a malware clearance.

Page resource inventory

Linked scripts8
Inline scripts9
Embedded frames1
External script hosts4

Counts describe the sampled HTML, not every resource loaded by the browser. External resources are common and are not automatically harmful.

No listed local patterns observed. The limited rule set cannot detect every threat or behavior.

External threat intelligence

Provider coverageNot checked

Local checks do not query external reputation databases. An unavailable check is never a clean result.

Registration

Domain information

Public RDAP observation
Canonical domainupcounsel.com
RegistrarNameCheap, Inc.
RegisteredSep 22, 2011
Domain age15 years
ExpiresSep 22, 2027
Registry statusesclient transfer prohibited
Report statePublished

Infrastructure

Network & hosting

Observed endpoint, not legal location
IP address104.21.24.246
Autonomous systemUnavailable
Network organizationUnavailable
Observed countryUnavailable
CDNCloudflare
Web application firewallNot detected

At a glance

Infrastructure summary

Observed during this scan

A compact view of the connection, DNS and security surface. These observations describe what the scanner could verify at scan time and do not prove ownership or ongoing availability.

HTTP response200 · https://upcounsel.com/
Endpoint104.21.24.246
NetworkUnavailable
CDN and WAFCloudflare · Not detected
DNS surface19 records · 2 nameservers · 5 mail exchangers
Protection signals4 security headers · 5 technologies · DNSSEC unknown

Page telemetry

Observed page statistics

Safe metadata only

These counters describe the fetched response and sampled HTML. Script counts describe references in the markup, not a complete browser network log. Cookie counts cover observed response headers.

Response size75,622 bytes
HTTP check duration1,000 ms
Cookies observed2
Script resources8 · 4 external hosts
Frames and sampled checks1 frames · 6 resources checked

Encrypted transport

TLS certificate

Valid when observed
StatusValid when observed
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuercountryName=US, organizationName=Google Trust Services, commonName=WE1
Valid fromSep 18, 2026
Valid untilDec 17, 2026
Certificate names*.upcounsel.com · upcounsel.com

Resolution

DNS footprint

DNSKEY status unknown

DNSKEY presence does not verify the DNSSEC signature chain. Missing records can mean no record was returned or the lookup was unavailable.

A104.21.24.246TTL —
A172.67.221.58TTL —
AAAA2606:4700:3033::6815:18f6TTL —
AAAA2606:4700:3035::ac43:dd3aTTL —
NSbryce.ns.cloudflare.comTTL —
NSval.ns.cloudflare.comTTL —
MX1 aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
MX10 aspmx2.googlemail.comTTL —
MX10 aspmx3.googlemail.comTTL —
MX5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
MX5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.comTTL —
TXTasv=c2825b4b0b91d6b30c70579032c8069fTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=eZnnxN6lRhUn8AA_B9loTocD3dj8y8XgzNh7_2pwAbkTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=Lf31vO-WHgO8oZPVvKcuachdpvp8iJOn1fEhTqjDOZQTTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=UzuyTyRib4PJ51kFGwhuPrUR260WHk9n1hlzm4PLPe4TTL —
TXTgoogle-site-verification=Ys9-qtA50XUJ8ruEKxMzvN-q7MrZwuhv-PUjf3YO5ycTTL —
TXTrippling-domain-verification=5448fceTTL —
TXTstripe-verification=d21018fe149b317e1d2bc0382cce93e83d5b337c35d56a14dbb04a1c9a10c6e1TTL —
TXTv=spf1 ip4:192.254.115.191 include:_spf.google.com include:40007426.spf06.hubspotemail.net ~allTTL —

DNS observations · no external lookup API

Domain email protection

Exact-host SPF and DMARC observations help the owner investigate email impersonation risks. They are separate from website malware checks and do not change the Safety Score.

SPFPolicy record observed, not fully validated
DMARCMonitoring-only DMARC policy

What to do next

Review the records with your mail administrator. Inventory legitimate senders and test SPF and DKIM alignment before enforcing a stricter DMARC policy. Fix duplicate records and investigate overly permissive SPF rules.

This bounded check does not send email, probe SMTP, evaluate recursive SPF includes, verify DKIM signatures or apply organizational-domain DMARC inheritance. A missing subdomain record does not prove that no inherited protection exists. A DNS timeout is unknown, not an absent record. A policy record is not proof that messages authenticate successfully.

Responsible disclosure

security.txt

RFC 9116 observation

No readable security.txt file was observed at the standard locations. This is informational and is not evidence of malware.

Browser protections

Security headers

4 observed
referrer-policypresent strict-origin-when-cross-origin
strict-transport-securitypresent max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains
x-content-type-optionspresent nosniff
x-frame-optionspresent SAMEORIGIN

Response headers

Cookie protections

Passive observation
Cookies observed2
Missing Secure0
Missing HttpOnly0
Missing SameSite0

Only cookie attribute counts are retained. Cookie names and values are never stored. These observations are not proof of compromise and do not independently change the Safety Score.

Detected stack

Technologies

Bootstrap 80% Cloudflare 98% Google Analytics 94% Google Tag Manager 96% Tailwind CSS 72%

Versions are shown only when publicly exposed by the page or response headers. An observed version is not, by itself, proof of a vulnerability.

JavaScript library advisories

4 sampled JavaScript files checked locally with Retire.js. Database snapshot: 2026-09-30T02:40:06.930Z.

jquery 1.12.4 6 known advisories. CVE-2015-9251 CVE-2019-11358 CVE-2020-11023 CVE-2020-11022
jquery-ui 1.12.1 4 known advisories. CVE-2021-41182 CVE-2021-41184 CVE-2021-41183 CVE-2022-31160

A version match is not proof that the website is infected or that an issue is exploitable here. Owners should review the advisory, check whether their code is affected and test an update. Up to four external script files are sampled, not every dependency, inline script or dynamically loaded resource.

About this website

What the site says about itself

About Us

View the site's About page ↗

This is publisher supplied information. The independent safety findings are shown separately.

Structured facts

Website identity & response

Public page metadata
Page titleUpCounsel: Expert Legal Services and Free Legal Documents
First headingAccess Expert Attorneys On Demand
DescriptionFind and hire expert attorneys on demand tailored to your business needs. Access vetted lawyers on UpCounsel for expert legal services & free legal documents.
Canonical URLhttps://www.upcounsel.com
Final URLhttps://upcounsel.com/
HTTP response200 · text/html; charset=utf-8 · 1000 ms
Languageen
Structured typesOrganization · WebSite
Page page detectedhttps://upcounsel.com/featuresAbout page detectedhttps://upcounsel.com/aboutContact page detectedhttps://upcounsel.com/contact
missing100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
en100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
19100% evidence confidence
2100% evidence confidence
5100% evidence confidence
unavailable100% evidence confidence
Dns consistency.cname present100% evidence confidence
63072000100% evidence confidence
Local headers.permissions policy present100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.hsts preload100% evidence confidence
4100% evidence confidence
1100% evidence confidence
Local headers.csp present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors wildcard origin100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors present100% evidence confidence
Local headers.cors credentials with wildcard100% evidence confidence
2100% evidence confidence
Local cookies.cookies missing secure100% evidence confidence
Local cookies.cookies missing samesite100% evidence confidence
Local cookies.cookies missing httponly100% evidence confidence

Connection path

Redirect chain

0 recorded hops

No redirect hop was recorded for the sampled homepage.

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Compared with the previous scan

What changed

A comparison will appear after the next completed scan.

Explainable matching

Digital fingerprint

fingerprint-v1
steady-shield-wave-319

Comparable components help find technically related websites. A match does not prove common ownership.

DnsHashed private comparison value
TechnologiesHashed private comparison value

Material changes only

Change history

No meaningful changes recorded yet.

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Visual evidence

Website screenshot

Screenshot of upcounsel.com
Captured once in an isolated browser during this scan. Visual tint is an interface overlay. The original evidence is not duplicated.

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Questions about upcounsel.com

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Is upcounsel.com safe to visit?

The latest Safety Score is 77/100 with 75% Evidence Confidence. This is a point-in-time assessment of observed technical signals, not a guarantee. Check the exact address and avoid entering payment details if anything looks unusual.

Did the scan detect malware on upcounsel.com?

ClamAV found no signature match in the sampled homepage HTML. External scripts, downloads and private server files were not checked. This is not a whole-site malware clearance.

When was upcounsel.com registered?

The public registry record shows Sep 22, 2011. Registration details may be privacy-protected or updated later.

Did upcounsel.com have a valid TLS certificate?

The scanner observed a valid TLS certificate using TLSv1.3. A valid certificate alone does not establish that the site is safe.

Can a paid listing change this website's score?

No. Premium placement and owner-supplied pages are labelled separately. Technical evidence, the Safety Score and moderation decisions remain independent.