Verdict
acrandcompany.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 for ACR & Company, a chartered accountancy and business consulting firm established in 2004 in Calicut, Kerala. Describes services (audit, tax, accounting, registrations, advisory), industry coverage, methodology, contact details, and office address. Appears to be a legitimate professional services site. |
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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 | 19 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2009527 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE2 | 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 2009.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Kaspersky flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
ACR & Company’s website presents a professional accountancy and business-consulting practice serving businesses from Calicut, Kerala, with an apparent fee-for-service model covering financial reporting, taxation, bookkeeping, advisory work, registrations, and related compliance services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s presentation is coherent and business-focused, and no brand-impersonation indicators, login form, hidden sensitive form, wallet connection, or cloaking behavior were observed. However, the domain has confirmed blacklist status across two external sources, including multiple malicious detections and an additional suspicious detection. That external threat evidence is a direct contradiction to the otherwise legitimate-looking presentation and is sufficient to make credential, account, and financial interaction inappropriate. The apparent business identity remains unverified; the available evidence does not establish that the on-page organization and the domain’s real-world operator are the same entity.
- External reputation telemetry recorded 5 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection among evaluated results, with a Tier-1 security vendor flag.
- The domain was first archived on 2009-07-03 and last archived on 2026-06-10, with 527 snapshots across 18 tracked years; historical analysis found strong continuity and no suspicious repurposing.
- Domain registration telemetry records creation on 2007-07-18 and an age of 19.1 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage, About material, and Contact material describe ACR & Company as a chartered-accountancy and consulting practice and provide service descriptions, contact details, and an office address. The site does not state a license number or licensing authority in the reviewed material, so professional authorization and the claimed business identity require independent confirmation; this is a disclosure gap rather than proof of fraud. The registration record uses PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com, while the site’s transport security is provided through a domain-validated certificate. These administrative and technical indicators do not overcome the confirmed external reputation contradiction.
- The homepage identifies “ACR & Company | Chartered Accountants in Calicut, Kerala” and describes audit, taxation, accounting, registration, advisory, and intellectual-property services.
- Domain registration telemetry lists PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com as registrar, with creation date 2007-07-18T08:16:21Z and expiration date 2027-07-18T08:16:21Z.
- Hosting telemetry records AS47583, AS-HOSTINGER - Hostinger International Limited, CY.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by YE2 at DV validation level and is valid to 2026-10-20T15:50:46+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any engagement, an independent check should confirm the firm’s professional authorization with the relevant accountancy or corporate registry, rather than relying solely on the website’s self-description. The stated office and contact channels should be validated through an independently sourced business listing or an offline route, and any proposed payment or document exchange should use protections that support dispute handling and reversal. Until the blacklist findings are resolved by a trusted security assessment, sensitive interactions should remain suspended.
- The homepage provides a “Book a Consultation” call to action but no account-login or sensitive-data form.
- The Contact material supplies the channels and office details required for independent confirmation.
- The reviewed page content contains no published license number or licensing authority.
Summary Verdict
This website has a critical trust posture for sensitive use. Its credible professional-services presentation and long technical history are outweighed by confirmed external blacklist and malicious-detection evidence, while the real-world operator remains unverified. The appropriate classification is sensitive interaction risk rather than a finding that the displayed business identity has been conclusively disproven.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection provides a meaningful mitigation against direct exposure and common delivery-layer abuse, but it is only an infrastructure control and does not establish legitimacy. The infrastructure includes observed edge-serving behavior and potential origin candidates, indicating a layered and somewhat complex hosting arrangement.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users should not submit credentials, initiate financial transactions, or provide sensitive business documents until independent identity, authorization, and reputation checks produce a satisfactory result.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 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
- 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 - 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 acrandcompany.com.
- The request stayed on acrandcompany.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by dns-parking.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-07-18. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2009-07-03. Clear
- It is hosted on AS-HOSTINGER, from a server in UA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AS-HOSTINGER - Hostinger International Limited, CY |
| Country | UA |
| Server IP | 2a02:4780:45:a95f:4a83:7045:f3cd:8f23 |
| Name servers | NS1.DNS-PARKING.COM, NS2.DNS-PARKING.COM |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-20 |
| Domain age | 19.10 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-07-18 |
| Archive first seen | 2009-07-03 |
| Archive snapshots | 527 |
| 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 acrandcompany.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.