Verdict
123candle.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 | This page is a standard webserver 'Index of /' directory listing showing folders like cgi-bin/ and wp-content/, and files such as wp-cli.yml. No forms, login prompts, or monetization present. |
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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 | 11 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 17 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 201133 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 2011.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet, Kaspersky, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
123candle.com currently presents a raw webserver “Index of /” directory rather than a functioning business website. The homepage exposes folders such as `cgi-bin/` and `wp-content/`, alongside a `wp-cli.yml` file, and provides no visible product, service, monetization, login, or other clear business purpose.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The principal risk is a confirmed external reputation contradiction: the domain is blacklisted by external security sources, with multiple malicious detections recorded. This is materially more significant than the homepage’s otherwise limited interaction surface. No brand impersonation or conflicting legal-entity identity was observed in the supplied page content, and the directory listing itself contains no phishing form or credential prompt; however, those benign page characteristics do not offset the external threat detections. The site should therefore be treated as unsuitable for login, credential submission, financial activity, or other sensitive interaction.
- External reputation telemetry recorded 11 malicious detections and a blacklist hit for the domain; three named security engines contributed to the threat signal.
- The homepage is a directory listing titled “Index of /,” exposing `cgi-bin/`, `wp-content/`, and `wp-cli.yml`, with zero forms and no login prompt.
- Behavioral inspection recorded 0 external XHR requests, 0 wallet-connection runs, 0 hidden forms, and 0 suspicious inline scripts across 2 successful runs.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site does not present an identifiable operating business, terms, licensing statement, registration number, or regulated-service disclosure on the observed homepage. This is a substantive transparency gap for any prospective financial or regulated use, although the absence of a license claim is not independently a finding of fraud. Identity verification remains unresolved: the available material does not independently connect the domain to a real-world operator. Technical continuity and transport security provide limited context but do not establish legitimacy, particularly in light of the blacklist result. No matching broker signal was identified in the supplied third-party context.
- Domain registration telemetry: registered 2009-12-28 (~16.65 years old), with expiry recorded as 2026-12-28; registrar: Bluehost Inc.
- Archive telemetry: 33 snapshots spanning 2011-01-28 to 2025-02-22, covering 15 tracked years.
- The site is served from AS31898, ORACLE-BMC-31898 – Oracle Corporation, US.
- TLS telemetry: certificate issued by YR2 at DV validation level, valid to 2026-11-04.
What to Verify Next
Before any engagement, an institution should independently establish whether the domain is intentionally associated with a known organisation and confirm the operator through an official, offline contact route. Any claimed financial, investment, brokerage, or other regulated activity should be checked directly against the relevant regulator’s current registry, using the legal entity and jurisdiction rather than relying on the website. Given the confirmed external threat signal, sensitive interaction should remain suspended unless the domain is cleared through formal security review.
- The homepage supplies no business description, operator identity, legal terms, licensing information, or service-specific disclosures.
- The observed site state is an exposed server directory rather than a completed customer-facing service.
- Independent security checks produced a blacklist result despite the absence of active forms or monetization on the captured page.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical risk, driven by confirmed external threat detections and the unresolved connection between the domain and a legitimate real-world operator. The limited and technically exposed presentation does not provide a credible basis for sensitive engagement.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is not shown behind a detected CDN or WAF and resolves through a single hosting address, so no meaningful edge-layer mitigation is evident. The hosting arrangement is a conventional Oracle-hosted environment; infrastructure identification and valid transport encryption should be treated only as technical characteristics, not as evidence that the site or its operator is legitimate.
Closing Assessment
Account access, credential submission, financial transactions, downloads, and other sensitive actions should not proceed unless independent operator validation and formal security clearance are completed.
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, external reputation.
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 - 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 123candle.com.
- The request stayed on 123candle.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Bluehost Inc.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by bluehost.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-12-28. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2011-01-28. Clear
- It is hosted on ORACLE-BMC-31898, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Bluehost Inc. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | ORACLE-BMC-31898 - Oracle Corporation, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 162.241.218.31 |
| Name servers | NS1.BLUEHOST.COM, NS2.BLUEHOST.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-04 |
| Domain age | 16.65 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-12-28 |
| Archive first seen | 2011-01-28 |
| Archive snapshots | 33 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 11 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about 123candle.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.