Verdict
104thphoenix.com 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 | A community website for the 104th Phoenix virtual fighter-bomber squadron (gaming clan). Provides history, recruitment, server info, media posts, and requests donations to support public servers. Social links to common platforms are listed. No login or payment forms visible in provided content. |
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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 | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 19 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2008131 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2008.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website presents itself as the community site for the 104th Phoenix Virtual Fighter Bomber Squadron, offering squadron history, recruitment information, server details, rules, roster content, media, and a voluntary-donation appeal intended to maintain public multiplayer servers.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The principal concern is not the site's stated gaming-community purpose, which appears coherent and contains no visible login, credential-harvesting, wallet-connection, or payment form. However, external reputation checks identified two malicious detections and two suspicious detections, alongside a confirmed blacklist presence; this is a material contradiction that outweighs the site's otherwise ordinary community content. No brand-impersonation or phishing indicator was identified in the supplied page analysis, and the historical record shows continuity rather than suspicious repurposing, but those positives do not neutralize the external threat findings. The appropriate posture is therefore to treat sensitive interaction with the site as high risk.
- Homepage: describes a virtual fighter-bomber squadron, server support, recruitment, media, and voluntary donations; no login or sensitive form was visible.
- Domain registration: registered 2007-08-27 and approximately 18.99 years old.
- Web archive: 131 snapshots spanning 2008–2026, covering 19 tracked years.
- External reputation assessment: 2 malicious and 2 suspicious detections, with a confirmed blacklist result.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The supplied pages describe a community-run gaming organization rather than a regulated financial or investment service. No license claim, registration number, or formal regulatory disclosure is presented in the available content; this is a transparency item to resolve before treating any donation arrangement as an established organizational process, but it is not by itself evidence of a scam. The site's identity is only likely rather than independently verified, despite social links to Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitch. Its long-running historical presence supports continuity of the website, not proof of the current operator's legal identity or authority to receive funds.
- About content: identifies the 104th Phoenix VFBS, its founders, its formation in March 2006, and its stated values of honor, excellence, and integrity.
- Social-link area: lists Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitch accounts.
- Site content: contains no displayed license authority or license number.
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by YR2 at DV validation level, valid to 2026-10-29.
What to Verify Next
Before any donation or other sensitive interaction, independently confirm that the current community representatives and linked social accounts are controlled by the same organization described on the site. Confirm the intended donation recipient, the purpose and handling of funds, and whether a payment intermediary provides transaction protection or dispute mechanisms. Any organizational or charitable status relevant to the intended transaction should be checked directly with the applicable registry rather than inferred from the site's own statements.
- Contact page: provides the site's designated contact route for confirming current representatives and official channels.
- Recruitment and server pages: identify the operational community functions that can be cross-checked through independently sourced social accounts.
- Donation appeal: states that contributions are intended to maintain public servers.
Summary Verdict
The website has a coherent, long-running community presentation, but the confirmed external reputation contradictions create an elevated trust concern that is not suitable for sensitive interaction. The site's apparent identity and purpose remain plausible, yet neither establishes sufficient confidence to support credentials, financial activity, or other high-consequence engagement.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to one hosting address on AS-VULTR – The Constant Company, LLC, in the United States, with no CDN or WAF edge layer detected. This provides a concrete hosting attribution but offers limited protective separation between the public service and its apparent origin infrastructure.
- Hosting infrastructure: served from AS20473 (AS-VULTR – The Constant Company, LLC, US), resolved to 96.30.192.131.
- Infrastructure resolution: 1 unique IP, 0 edge IPs, and 1 likely origin IP.
- Transport encryption: DV certificate issuer YR2 with validity ending 2026-10-29.
Closing Assessment
Sensitive actions should be deferred until the organization, donation destination, and official communication channels have been independently confirmed through trusted sources. Viewing publicly available informational content carries less exposure than submitting credentials or transferring funds.
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.
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 made background requests to destinations TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_XHR - The structure of the page changed sharply while it was loading.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_DOM_DENSITY_SPIKE - A large share of what the page loaded came from other domains.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_MODERATE - The page exchanged network traffic with destinations TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_TRAFFIC - The page sent data to a destination TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_POSTS
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 80/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 40% |
- Trusted social count=4
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 104thphoenix.com.
- The request stayed on 104thphoenix.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by domaincontrol.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-08-27. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2008-08-17. Clear
- It is hosted on AS-VULTR, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
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| Hosting | AS-VULTR - The Constant Company, LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 96.30.192.131 |
| Name servers | NS13.DOMAINCONTROL.COM, NS14.DOMAINCONTROL.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-29 |
| Domain age | 18.99 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-08-27 |
| Archive first seen | 2008-08-17 |
| Archive snapshots | 131 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about 104thphoenix.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.