Verdict
a2service.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 | Corporate website of A2 logistics company (Russia) describing warehousing, transport and logistics services, office locations, contact details, and news. Includes a contact/newsletter form and addresses for Moscow and Novosibirsk. |
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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 | 5 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 13 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2013Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | 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 2013.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
A2service.com presents itself as the corporate website of A2, a Russian B2B logistics operator offering warehousing, intra-plant logistics, outsourced storage operations, road transport, bulk and oversized cargo transport, logistics consulting, industry-specific solutions, and related IT support. The site appears designed to attract contracted business customers through service descriptions, company information, office contacts, news, and a request form.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
Confirmed external reputation contradictions materially elevate the risk of sensitive interaction. The domain is blacklisted by multiple external sources, with malicious detections also recorded; this is the decisive adverse signal despite the absence of observed login forms, wallet-connect behavior, hidden forms, cloaking, or suspicious client-side activity. The site's Russian-language corporate presentation, Moscow and Novosibirsk contact details, and logistics-service content are internally coherent, and no page-level phishing or brand-impersonation indicator was confirmed. A separate automated similarity signal associated the site with “service.gov.uk,” but the available page analysis did not confirm impersonation; it should therefore be treated as contextual rather than conclusive. The domain’s apparent age does not neutralize the current reputation findings.
- The homepage describes A2 logistics services, including warehousing, intra-plant logistics, storage outsourcing, road transport, bulk-cargo transport, oversized-cargo transport, consulting, and IT solutions.
- External reputation assessment recorded `vt_malicious: 5`, `vt_suspicious: 1`, and `external_blacklist: true`.
- Domain registration evidence: Registered 2013-10-07 (~12.88 years old) through Registrar of Domain Names REG.RU LLC.
- The homepage behavior assessment recorded no login form, no hidden forms, zero wallet-connect runs, zero external XHR activity, and no cloaking.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available company, services, contacts, and news pages provide a plausible commercial logistics profile, but the available material does not disclose a licensing authority or license number. For a logistics provider, this is a regulatory and corporate-verification gap rather than standalone proof of misconduct. The site's real-world operator remains independently unverified, and the external blacklist findings should be treated as a serious reputational warning requiring resolution before engagement. A WikiFX-style broker dataset did not match the site; that result provides no legal or licensing determination.
- The company and contacts pages present office locations in Moscow and Novosibirsk and a published business telephone number.
- The available site content contains no stated license authority or license number.
- Hosting telemetry identifies AS25549, AVANTEL-AS — JSC Avantel, RU.
- The site uses a DV TLS certificate issued by YR1, valid until 2026-10-15T23:54:36+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Sensitive interaction should remain suspended until the blacklist findings are independently explained and cleared by the organization’s security or fraud-review process. The claimed A2 operator should be matched to an independently sourced corporate registry record, and any permits or sector-specific authorizations relevant to the proposed logistics service should be confirmed with the appropriate authority. The company’s contact channels and office details should also be validated through an offline or independently obtained business source before any contract, data submission, or payment arrangement.
- The company, contacts, and services pages provide the identity and operational claims requiring independent corporate matching.
- The contacts page supplies the business locations and telephone channel to be checked through an independent source.
- The available regulatory material does not identify a licensing authority or license number.
- The external reputation findings provide the specific unresolved condition requiring security-team review.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk, with the site’s coherent corporate content outweighed by confirmed external reputation contradictions and the absence of independent operator verification. The website may represent a genuine logistics business presentation, but the available evidence does not support treating it as suitable for sensitive engagement.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by a CDN/WAF layer, with four observed CDN edge servers and one potential origin candidate. This architecture offers some exposure mitigation, but protective network infrastructure cannot establish legitimacy or offset the confirmed reputation risk.
Closing Assessment
Prospective counterparties should defer credentials, confidential submissions, contractual commitments, and payments until independent identity, regulatory standing, contact channels, and the external reputation findings have been formally 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 a2service.com.
- The request stayed on a2service.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Registrar of Domain Names REG.RU LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by reg.ru, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-10-07. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2013-12-11. Clear
- It is hosted on AVANTEL-AS, from a server in RU. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Registrar of Domain Names REG.RU LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AVANTEL-AS - JSC Avantel, RU |
| Country | RU |
| Server IP | 91.192.173.197 |
| Name servers | NS1.REG.RU, NS2.REG.RU |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-15 |
| Domain age | 12.88 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-10-07 |
| Archive first seen | 2013-12-11 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 5 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about a2service.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.