Verdict
096159.com shows high-risk / scam indicators.
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
| What this site appears to be | Minimal landing page titled 'Welcome to 365777' advertising music and sound effects. No forms, links, or monetization visible in the provided HTML snippet. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | 15 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 8.4 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This is a minimal landing website at 096159.com titled “Welcome to 365777,” presenting music and sound effects, including a key sound effect, with no visible account, payment, or other commercial workflow in the supplied page content.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site presents a critical interaction risk because external reputation telemetry recorded confirmed blacklist activity and multiple malicious detections. This conflicts materially with the benign, informational appearance of the homepage. Runtime analysis also observed non-whitelisted external traffic, including external requests and posts, while the page itself contains very little explanatory content. No conflicting legal identities or page-level brand impersonation indicators were observed, but the confirmed external detections are sufficient to require a security-forward posture.
- Homepage: the page title is “Welcome to 365777,” and the captured body contains 58 characters focused on music and sound effects.
- Runtime behavior: 17 external XHR/fetch requests were observed, of which 12 were non-whitelisted; 6 external posts were observed, including 1 non-whitelisted post.
- External reputation telemetry: 15 malicious detections were recorded from 20 effective evaluations, with 0 suspicious detections; two blacklist sources were recorded.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available evidence does not independently verify the real-world operator. The homepage does not present a company name, licensing authority, registration number, or other regulatory disclosure, leaving the site’s legal status unclear. The domain is registered through GoDaddy.com, LLC and has a multi-year registration history, which are administrative and continuity signals rather than proof of operator legitimacy. A valid domain-validated certificate provides transport encryption but does not establish corporate identity, authorization, or regulatory standing.
- Registration record: created 2018-04-02T08:55:36Z, approximately 8.38 years old, expiring 2027-04-02T08:55:36Z; registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC.
- Homepage: no company, licensing authority, or license number is disclosed in the supplied content.
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by YR2 at DV validation level, valid to 2026-09-02T18:31:41+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, an independent party should establish the legal operator through an authoritative corporate registry and confirm any claimed authorization with the relevant regulator. Contact details and any future download or interaction pathway should be validated through an independently sourced channel rather than relying solely on information presented by the site. Security controls should also block or monitor access until the external reputation conflict has been resolved.
- Independent registry check: confirm the operator’s legal name and jurisdiction before relying on the site’s identity.
- Regulatory check: confirm applicable authorization directly with the relevant official registry, if the site is intended to provide a regulated service.
- Contact-channel check: validate official support or ownership channels through an independent, offline source.
Summary Verdict
The site should be treated as a critical-trust environment with sensitive-interaction risk. Its limited informational presentation does not reconcile the confirmed external threat detections, and the available evidence is insufficient to verify the real-world operator. Login, credential submission, and financial interaction are not appropriate on the basis of the supplied evidence.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to infrastructure associated with SKYCLOUD-NET — Skycloud Computing Co., Ltd. in Taiwan, using AS7483; 11 likely origin IPs were identified and no CDN was detected. This provides identifiable hosting context but no protective CDN or WAF layer was evidenced to mitigate the reputation risk.
Closing Assessment
Access should remain limited to non-sensitive observation while independent identity, regulatory, and security-reputation checks are completed; sensitive interaction should not proceed unless those checks produce a satisfactory result.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-18 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
2 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by registration and ownership, analysis engine, behaviour in a sandbox, external reputation.
01 Governance Risk
- Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE - The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - The page sent data to a destination TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_POSTS - The page exchanged network traffic with destinations TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_TRAFFIC - The page made background requests to destinations TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_XHR - An external threat feed lists this domain: either Google Safe Browsing marked it malicious, or a significant number of malware engines flagged it.External reputation
rule:EXT_BLACKLIST_CRITICAL
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 25% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of 096159.com.
- The request stayed on 096159.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by net.cn, across 9 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-04-02. Noted
- It is hosted on SKYCLOUD-NET, from a server in TW. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | SKYCLOUD-NET - Skycloud Computing co., Ltd., TW |
| Country | TW |
| Server IP | 103.24.55.112 |
| Name servers | DNS1.C01.NSONE.NET.CN, DNS1.P08.NSONE.NET, DNS2.C01.NSONE.NET.CN, DNS2.P08.NSONE.NET, DNS3.C01.NSONE.NET.CN, DNS3.P08.NSONE.NET, DNS4.C01.NSONE.NET.CN, DNS4.P08.NSONE.NET, DNS5.C01.NSONE.NET.CN |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-02 |
| Domain age | 8.38 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-04-02 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 15 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about 096159.com at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.