Verdict
1889hsda.org 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 | Website for the 1889 Historic Seventh-Day Adventists world conference providing history, principles, resources (newsletters, books, videos), meeting info and contact details based in the Philippines. |
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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 | 6.8 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 202134 snapshots | Clear |
| 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).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2021.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
1889 HSDA World Conference is an informational religious-organization website presenting the history, principles, conferences, officers, newsletters, books, videos, online meetings, and contact details of the 1889 Historic Seventh-day Adventist movement, with an apparent community and educational purpose rather than a commercial or investment model.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site presents a benign informational profile, with no login form, payment workflow, investment solicitation, or obvious impersonation indicators identified in the reviewed pages. However, this presentation is materially outweighed by confirmed external threat intelligence: the domain is blacklisted, and multiple security detections classify it as malicious or suspicious. Historical threat indicators also contributed to the adverse assessment. No conflicting legal-entity names or demonstrated brand impersonation were identified, so the principal concern is the confirmed technical and reputational threat signal rather than an established identity contradiction. Sensitive interaction should therefore be treated as unsafe pending independent resolution of the detections.
- External reputation telemetry recorded 11 malicious and 2 suspicious detections across 18 effective evaluations; Tier-1 threat detection was present.
- The domain was recorded as blacklisted by two external sources, with the adverse control activated because malicious detections reached the critical threshold.
- The archive records 34 snapshots from 2021-10-16 through 2026-01-20, spanning 6 tracked years; the historical record does not establish suspicious repurposing.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available pages describe a religious organization and provide a Philippines location, telephone number, organizational material, and contact details, but the real-world operator remains independently unverified. The site does not claim a financial, investment, or other regulated licence and does not provide a licence number or verifying authority; this is a regulatory-transparency gap rather than, by itself, proof of fraud. Registration information shows ownership opacity, which limits attribution of the operator, while the domain’s multi-year registration and continuous archived presence provide background continuity but do not overcome the confirmed blacklist issue. No broker match was identified in the available third-party context.
- The homepage and organizational navigation identify “1889 HSDA World Conference,” member conferences, officers, fundamental principles, and resources, but no licence or registration number is presented.
- The domain registration record identifies eNom, LLC as registrar, with creation on 2019-11-08 and expiry on 2027-11-08; recorded domain age is 6.78 years.
- The site’s stated organizational base is Sitio Lip-o, Barangay Imelda, Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental, Philippines.
What to Verify Next
Before any credential, account, donation, or other sensitive interaction, an institution should independently confirm that the organization named on the site exists at the stated location and that the site is an authorized communications channel. Any claimed organizational status should be checked through an authoritative local registry or directly with a known, independently sourced organizational representative. Contact details should be validated through an offline or separately obtained channel, and security detections should be reassessed before the domain is permitted in an enterprise environment.
- The site provides dedicated About, Officers, Member Conferences, and Contact sections that can be cross-checked against independently obtained organizational records.
- The reviewed page set contains no sensitive forms, hidden forms, or external password-submission destinations.
- The site’s published purpose is informational and community-oriented, with newsletters, books, videos, and meeting information rather than a stated commercial service.
Summary Verdict
The website has a critical trust posture for sensitive interaction. Its coherent informational presentation and apparent organizational purpose do not neutralize the confirmed blacklist and malicious-detection signals, while operator identity remains unverified. The evidence therefore supports restricted, non-sensitive treatment only until the adverse findings and organizational attribution are independently resolved.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to one likely origin address and is not behind a detected CDN or WAF. It is hosted by WEBHOSTINGHOLDINGS - Webhosting Holdings LLC in the United States on AS965; this hosting arrangement provides a concrete technical attribution but offers no legitimacy assurance. Transport encryption is present through a domain-validation certificate, which protects the connection but does not validate the operator or content.
- Hosting resolved to AS965, WEBHOSTINGHOLDINGS - Webhosting Holdings LLC, United States, with one unique IP and zero detected edge IPs.
- The TLS certificate uses DV validation and is issued by YR2, valid until 2026-10-09T10:34:27+00:00.
- Infrastructure analysis reported no detected CDN, no detected WAF vendor, and one likely origin IP.
Closing Assessment
Enterprise controls should block or isolate the domain for sensitive use, permit only narrowly scoped non-sensitive review where operationally necessary, and require independent organizational and threat-intelligence confirmation before any broader access is approved.
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 1889hsda.org.
- The request stayed on 1889hsda.org. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under eNom, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by webhostingpad.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-11-08. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-10-16. Clear
- It is hosted on WEBHOSTINGHOLDINGS, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | eNom, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | WEBHOSTINGHOLDINGS - Webhosting Holdings LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 162.244.94.44 |
| Name servers | ns5.webhostingpad.com, ns6.webhostingpad.com |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-09 |
| Domain age | 6.78 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-11-08 |
| Archive first seen | 2021-10-16 |
| Archive snapshots | 34 |
| 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 1889hsda.org 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.