Verdict
1-power.ao 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 | A Portuguese-language hosting provider default landing page indicating hosting account setup is complete and providing links to cPanel, email setup guides, knowledge base and support contact options. |
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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 | 6 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 4.3 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20226 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2022.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This website is a Portuguese-language hosting provisioning page for the domain 1-power.ao, presenting a completed hosting-account setup and directing visitors to cPanel access instructions, email-configuration guides, a knowledge base, support tickets, and contact options; its apparent purpose is to serve as a temporary welcome page for a paid web-hosting account rather than as a developed public business website.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site presents a confirmed blacklist and threat-detection concern despite the benign appearance of its default hosting page. Multiple external detections identify the domain as malicious or suspicious, including a Tier-1 detection by Sophos, and the domain is blacklisted by two external sources. This is the decisive risk signal and outweighs the page-level indicators showing no active solicitation, login form, sensitive form, or apparent brand impersonation. No conflicting legal-entity names or direct brand-impersonation indicators were observed, so the concern is external maliciousness and reputation rather than a demonstrated legal-identity conflict.
- External reputation telemetry: 6 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection among evaluated sources; Sophos was a flagged Tier-1 vendor.
- Blacklist status: the domain is listed by VirusTotal and an external blacklist source.
- Domain registration continuity: registered in 2020 (~4.25 years old).
- Web-archive record: 6 snapshots spanning 2022–2024 (3 years tracked), with no detected repurposing or semantic drift.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available homepage material describes hosting setup and support functionality but does not establish the operating company, regulatory status, or any licensing basis. Identity verification remains unconfirmed, and the available disclosure is insufficient to connect the site independently to a real-world operator. The absence of a broker-reputation match is only contextual and does not offset the adverse external reputation evidence. A valid transport certificate and identifiable hosting arrangement confirm technical operation, not legal legitimacy.
- Hosting infrastructure: served from AS24940 (HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE).
- Transport security: TLS certificate issued by YR1, validation level DV, valid to 2026-10-17 23:39:40 UTC.
- Homepage disclosure: the available page is a hosting welcome/provisioning page rather than an operator, legal, or licensing disclosure page.
What to Verify Next
Before any account, credential, administrative, or payment interaction, an independent party should confirm the intended operator through an authoritative corporate or domain-registration channel and confirm any applicable hosting authorization or business registration with the relevant jurisdictional registry. Official support channels should also be validated through an independent offline route, and the website should not be treated as an operational service until the blacklist findings have been resolved or credibly explained.
- Homepage: the page provides provisioning and support guidance but does not independently establish the operator’s legal identity.
- Page behavior: no login form, sensitive form, hidden form, wallet connection, or clipboard-write activity was observed during testing.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk, with sensitive interaction risk driven by confirmed adverse external reputation signals and unresolved operator identity. The site may be a genuine hosting placeholder, but the available evidence does not support treating it as trustworthy for credentials, account access, or financial activity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by a CDN/WAF layer, and the observed edge address is associated with Hetzner Online GmbH in Germany; the origin server was not observable. This infrastructure provides some exposure mitigation, but edge protection and hosting-provider identification cannot establish legitimacy or counter the external threat detections.
Closing Assessment
The proportionate course is to limit activity to passive review and defer credentials, account administration, and financial interactions until independent identity, service ownership, and reputation remediation have been confirmed.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-18 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
1 finding contributed to this verdict, raised by analysis engine, behaviour in a sandbox, external reputation.
01 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - Most of what the page loaded came from other domains rather than from this one.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_HIGH - 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 | 50% |
- 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 1-power.ao.
- The request stayed on 1-power.ao. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2022-05-19. Clear
- It is hosted on HETZNER-AS, from a server in DE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE |
| Country | DE |
| Server IP | 62.238.42.200 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-17 |
| Domain age | 4.25 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2022-05-19 |
| Archive snapshots | 6 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 6 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about 1-power.ao 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.