Verdict
96beans.net 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 | Japanese music festival site for '黒豆ロック2025' with navigation for artists, timetable, access, shuttle bus, tickets and limited goods. Content appears informational and promotional for an event. |
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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 | 13 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 3.8 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2022Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE2 | 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.
The website at 96beans.net presents itself as the Japanese music-festival site “黒豆ロック2025,” offering visitors information about performers, schedules, venue access, a free shuttle bus, tickets, limited merchandise, and the event overview. Its apparent business model is organiser-led event promotion supported by ticket sales and merchandise transactions.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
Confirmed external reputation contradictions materially outweigh the benign appearance of the event content. The site has been placed on a confirmed blacklist and received multiple malicious detections from external security sources, including a Tier-1 detection. These findings support a high-risk posture for sensitive interaction even though the captured homepage presents a conventional festival narrative, contains no login form, and shows no observed wallet or credential-harvesting behavior. No direct brand-impersonation or phishing form was identified in the supplied page evidence, so the concern is the domain’s externally observed threat reputation rather than a demonstrated conflict between two legal identities.
- The homepage identifies “黒豆ロック2025” and links to artist, timetable, access, shuttle-bus, ticket, merchandise, and event-overview content; page analysis recorded no content red flags.
- External reputation assessment recorded a confirmed blacklist status and malicious detections, including 13 malicious and 2 suspicious results among 20 effective detections.
- Domain registration evidence: registered 2022-11-18 13:07:09 UTC; age 3.76 years; expiry 2026-11-18 13:07:09 UTC.
- Archive telemetry records 146 snapshots spanning 2022–2026, with 5 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s event material names the “黒豆ロック実行委員会,” but the available evidence does not independently verify that committee as a real-world legal operator. Licensing is not presented as a feature of the business model, and the supplied pages do not establish a verified regulatory or corporate status. This is an identity and disclosure limitation, not a separate finding of impersonation; the decisive concern remains the confirmed external threat reputation described above. No broker-specific third-party match was identified.
- The event-overview content names “黒豆ロック実行委員会” as the organising body.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YE2, valid until 2026-10-22 03:48:54 UTC.
- Hosting telemetry: served from AS58791, GMO-I-R2 - GMO Internet, Inc., JP.
What to Verify Next
Before any ticket purchase or payment, an independent source should confirm that the named organising committee, venue, event date, ticket seller, and merchandise seller are genuinely connected to the event. Payment should be limited to methods offering meaningful dispute or chargeback protection, and official contact channels should be confirmed through an independent offline route rather than relying solely on details published on the site. Until those checks are completed, interaction should remain limited to passive informational viewing.
- The homepage provides the event’s core navigation, including ticketing, access, shuttle-bus, and merchandise sections that require independent corroboration.
- The event-overview page identifies the organising committee and should be compared with venue and ticket-provider records.
- The site’s transport security confirms encryption of the connection but does not authenticate the event operator or validate payment legitimacy.
Summary Verdict
The website presents a plausible local-event identity at the content layer, but the overall trust posture is critical because authoritative external threat signals directly contradict the site’s benign presentation. Real-world operator identity remains unverified, and the available evidence does not support treating sensitive interaction as trustworthy.
Infrastructure Integrity
The domain resolves directly to a likely origin hosted by GMO-I-R2 - GMO Internet, Inc. in Japan, with no CDN or WAF detected. This provides a technically identifiable hosting path but no meaningful legitimacy assurance; infrastructure protections cannot offset the external reputation findings.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users should avoid credential submission, account activity, ticket payments, and other financial interaction until the organiser and transaction channels have been independently validated.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 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 96beans.net.
- The request stayed on 96beans.net. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by value-domain.com, across 5 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-11-18. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2022-11-20. Clear
- It is hosted on GMO-I-R2, from a server in JP. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com |
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| Hosting | GMO-I-R2 - GMO Internet, Inc., JP |
| Country | JP |
| Server IP | 160.251.151.155 |
| Name servers | NS1.VALUE-DOMAIN.COM, NS2.VALUE-DOMAIN.COM, NS3.VALUE-DOMAIN.COM, NS4.VALUE-DOMAIN.COM, NS5.VALUE-DOMAIN.COM |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-22 |
| Domain age | 3.76 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-11-18 |
| Archive first seen | 2022-11-20 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 13 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about 96beans.net 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.