Verdict
aavadinstrument.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 | Official website of Aavad Instrument Pvt. Ltd., an ISO 9001:2015 certified manufacturer and supplier of industrial instrumentation since 2009. Site contains product catalogs, industry pages, contact/quote form, blog/news, certifications and company contact details. |
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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 | 4 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 2010Public 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 2010.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
The website presents itself as the corporate site of Aavad Instrument Pvt. Ltd., an Ahmedabad-based manufacturer and supplier of industrial measurement equipment, offering temperature, pressure, flow, level, analytical and automation products through catalogues, service information and quote-based B2B sales.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s corporate presentation is internally coherent and the page analysis identified no brand-impersonation, phishing-form, hidden-form or malicious browser-behavior indicators. However, this benign presentation is outweighed by confirmed external threat signals: four malicious and two suspicious detections were recorded, Fortinet was among the flagged vendors, and the domain is listed on blacklists from multiple sources. These findings constitute a material contradiction between the site’s professional appearance and its external security reputation. The domain’s real-world operator also remains independently unverified. Evidence:
- The homepage identifies Aavad Instrument Pvt. Ltd. and presents industrial-manufacturer content, while the page analysis records no content-level red flags or suspected brand impersonation.
- External reputation telemetry records 4 malicious and 2 suspicious detections, including a Fortinet flag.
- Blacklist status is confirmed by two external sources; the Google Safe Browsing result was negative, but this does not negate the other detections.
- WHOIS records show registration on 2009-12-01 and an age of 16.73 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The About, certification and company-information content presents the business as an ISO 9001:2015-certified manufacturer operating since 2009, but those on-site claims do not independently establish the operator’s legal identity or regulatory standing. No licensing authority or license number is identified in the supplied business information; for an industrial manufacturer this is a disclosure and verification matter rather than proof of fraudulent conduct. The site’s page-authority signal is low, which provides limited independent corroboration of its public identity. Evidence:
- The About and credentials content describes Aavad Instrument Pvt. Ltd. as an ISO 9001:2015-certified manufacturer and supplier.
- The business information identifies a corporate manufacturing model but records no claimed licensing authority or license number.
- The site uses a domain-validated TLS certificate issued by YR1, valid through 2026-09-22.
What to Verify Next
Before any commercial engagement, procurement team members should independently confirm the company name, incorporation details, physical operating address and certification status through authoritative corporate and certification registries. Any purchase order, quotation or payment instruction should be validated through an independently sourced telephone number or offline business contact, and payment should use a protected method with documented dispute rights. Credentials or other sensitive information should not be submitted while the confirmed blacklist findings remain unresolved. Evidence:
- The site provides company, certification, contact and quote-request content that can be cross-checked against independent records.
- The available assessment does not independently verify the site’s connection to a real-world operator.
- The external reputation conflict requires confirmation through channels that are not obtained solely from the website.
Summary Verdict
The website has a credible-looking industrial-manufacturer presentation, but its overall trust posture is critical and unsuitable for sensitive interaction because confirmed external threat detections and blacklist listings conflict with that presentation. The apparent business identity should therefore be treated as unverified rather than established.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to one likely origin address rather than a detected CDN edge, and is hosted in the United States by Unified Layer on AS46606. This identifiable hosting arrangement is technically concrete but offers no meaningful legitimacy assurance and does not offset the external reputation risk.
- Hosted on AS46606, Unified Layer, US.
- One unique IP and one likely origin IP were identified; no CDN was detected.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YR1, expiring 2026-09-22.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate posture is passive observation only until independent corporate verification and resolution of the external security detections are complete; login, credential submission, financial transactions and procurement commitments should not proceed in the interim.
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, behaviour in a sandbox, external reputation.
01 Governance Risk
- The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN - 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
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - The structure of the page changed sharply while it was loading.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_DOM_DENSITY_SPIKE - 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 | 25% |
- 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 aavadinstrument.com.
- The request stayed on aavadinstrument.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by webhostbox.net, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-12-01. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2010-02-11. Clear
- It is hosted on UNIFIEDLAYER-AS-1, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | UNIFIEDLAYER-AS-1 - Unified Layer, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 162.241.85.42 |
| Name servers | RNS11.WEBHOSTBOX.NET, RNS12.WEBHOSTBOX.NET |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-22 |
| Domain age | 16.73 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-12-01 |
| Archive first seen | 2010-02-11 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 4 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about aavadinstrument.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.