Verdict
101animals.ru is low-trust and potentially risky.
Several risk patterns were present. Do not send money or personal details until you have verified this business another way.
| What this site appears to be | Russian-language pet care blog (101Animals) with articles on dogs, cats, birds, rodents, aquariums and other pet-related topics. Standard informational content, pagination present, copyright 2017-2026. |
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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 | 2 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 77% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 264 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Risk |
| Domain age | 2.8 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 201756 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: 1 to 3 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2017.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
101Animals is a Russian-language informational pet-care portal presenting articles on dogs, cats, birds, rodents, aquariums, feeding, vaccination, and general animal care; its apparent business model is content publishing supported potentially by advertising or affiliate activity rather than financial services or user deposits.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content is a conventional pet-care blog, with no detected login form, sensitive form, wallet connection, financial offer, or brand-impersonation indicator. However, this benign presentation is outweighed by a confirmed blacklist hit and multiple malicious detections associated with the domain, creating a material risk for sensitive interaction. Separate abuse reporting concerns the shared provider IP rather than being uniquely attributed to the website, but the attribution remains adverse and was not discounted. No conflicting legal-entity names or confirmed impersonation were observed.
- The homepage identifies 101Animals as a pet-care portal and contains articles on animal care, feeding, and vaccination; no financial-service or deposit-taking functionality is presented.
- External reputation assessment recorded a confirmed blacklist hit, with 2 malicious and 1 suspicious detections.
- The domain registration record shows creation on 2023-10-19 and an age of 2.83 years; historical records contain 56 snapshots spanning 2017–2026, with 10 years tracked.
- Abuse reporting records 264 reports against 92.53.96.141, with a confidence score of 77; the subject is classified as shared infrastructure operated by JSC TIMEWEB rather than as uniquely attributable site infrastructure.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage presents an informational publishing model and does not claim to provide regulated financial, brokerage, or investment services. It also does not display a corporate legal identity, registration number, or applicable licence information; for this type of site, that is primarily a transparency gap rather than standalone evidence of fraud, but it prevents independent confirmation of the operator. The available evidence is therefore consistent with a content site, while real-world ownership and any commercial affiliate relationships remain unverified. No matching broker profile was identified in the reviewed third-party context.
- The homepage title and content identify “101Animals” as a pet-information portal rather than a regulated service provider.
- The site is hosted on AS9123, TimeWeb-AS – JSC _TIMEWEB_, RU.
- The transport certificate is issued by YR2, uses domain validation (DV), and is valid through 2026-10-16.
- The registration record lists REGRU-RU as registrar and an expiration date of 2026-10-19.
What to Verify Next
Before any activity beyond passive reading, an organization should independently establish the operator’s legal identity and confirm whether any advertising, affiliate, donation, or commercial activity is conducted under a registered entity. Any proposed transaction, account creation, or data submission should be preceded by confirmation of the official contact channels through an independent route and by checking that the destination and payment protections are appropriate. Verification should also confirm that the specific page being used remains consistent with the informational purpose observed during assessment.
- The homepage contains no login form, sensitive form, or form submission to an untrusted destination.
- Behavioral testing detected no cloaking, hidden forms, suspicious inline scripts, wallet-provider activity, or clipboard manipulation.
- The site exposes standard pagination and a substantial article catalogue, but no structured legal or organization metadata was detected.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated risk for sensitive interaction. The site appears to offer ordinary informational content, but the available evidence does not support treating it as a sufficiently established or independently verified entity for credentials, payments, or other consequential engagement.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, and the observed edge address is associated with AS9123 and TimeWeb-AS – JSC _TIMEWEB_, RU; the origin server was not observable in this analysis. This edge protection mitigates direct exposure of the origin and is a positive technical control, but it does not establish the legitimacy of the operator or neutralize adverse reputation signals.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate disposition is to restrict use to low-consequence, read-only browsing unless and until independent operator, contact-channel, and transaction-safety checks produce satisfactory results.
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.
01 Governance Risk
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 264 reports on hosting IP 92.53.96.141 (JSC TIMEWEB, Content Delivery Network), 77% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
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 101animals.ru.
- The request stayed on 101animals.ru. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under REGRU-RU. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by com., across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-10-19. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2017-08-29. Clear
- It is hosted on TimeWeb-AS, from a server in RU. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | REGRU-RU |
|---|---|
| Hosting | TimeWeb-AS - JSC _TIMEWEB_, RU |
| Country | RU |
| Server IP | 92.53.96.141 |
| Name servers | aragorn.ns.cloudflare.com., maya.ns.cloudflare.com. |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-16 |
| Domain age | 2.83 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-10-19 |
| Archive first seen | 2017-08-29 |
| Archive snapshots | 56 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 77% confidence, 264 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about 101animals.ru 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.