Verdict
alanbat.qa 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 | AL-Anbat Trading & Contracting corporate site describing construction services (Aluminum, Wood, UPVC, Natural Stone), company features, contact details (Doha, PO BOX, phone, email) and service assurances. No login, payment flows, or investment claims detected. |
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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 | 6 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 4.7 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2021Public history exists | 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 flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This website presents AL-Anbat Trading & Contracting as a Qatar-based construction and contracting company offering aluminum, wood, UPVC, and natural-stone services for building and infrastructure projects, with corporate information, project assurances, and contact details for prospective commercial clients.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No conflicting legal-entity names or explicit brand-impersonation indicators were identified in the reviewed site content, and the pages do not expose login, payment, investment, or credential-collection functionality. However, this benign presentation is materially outweighed by confirmed external threat detections: the domain is blacklisted and received six malicious detections, including a tier-one security-vendor detection. That external convergence is a direct contradiction to the site’s professional corporate presentation and supports a clearly cautionary posture for sensitive interaction. The available evidence does not establish that the construction business itself is fraudulent, but it does not support treating the domain as safe for credentials, payments, or other sensitive activity.
- External reputation assessment recorded six malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist status from two external blacklist sources.
- The homepage and contact content describe construction services and provide contact details, while page analysis found no login form, sensitive form, payment flow, or investment functionality.
- Domain registration continuity is recorded from 2021, with an authoritative age of approximately 4.70 years; historical records are recorded from 2021-11-25 through 2025-04-03 across 5 tracked years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage, about content, services presentation, and contact page are consistent with a commercial construction business and describe UPVC doors and windows, natural stone, and wood-and-aluminum fabrication. The site presents Doha and corporate contact information but does not state a licensing authority or registration number, leaving a material disclosure gap for a business seeking commercial engagement. The real-world operator identity remains unverified, and the available governance and ownership information is insufficient to independently connect the website to a legally established entity. A separate broker-reputation dataset produced no match; that result is contextual only and does not resolve the licensing or identity question.
- The homepage identifies “AL-Anbat Trading & Contracting” and describes complex construction and infrastructure projects, HSE standards, sustainability standards, and service delivery assurances.
- The services content identifies UPVC, natural stone, and wood-and-aluminum work; no license authority or license number is stated in the reviewed business information.
- The site’s transport encryption is a valid DV certificate issued by YR2, valid through 2026-11-06.
- Hosting resolves to AS24940, operated by HETZNER-AS — Hetzner Online GmbH, DE.
What to Verify Next
Before any commercial commitment, an independent check should confirm that the named business is registered and licensed for the relevant construction activities in the applicable jurisdiction. The stated Doha location, telephone channel, and contracting identity should be validated through an independently sourced corporate registry or offline business contact rather than relying solely on the website. Any proposed contract should also confirm the legal contracting party, beneficiary account, invoicing entity, and payment protections before funds or sensitive documents are exchanged.
- The contact page supplies a Doha location, PO Box information, and telephone details that can be checked through an independent source.
- The about and services pages describe commercial construction capabilities but do not independently establish the operator’s legal identity or regulatory standing.
- The site presents a corporate business model based on commercial contracts and direct client invoicing, making beneficiary and contracting-party validation relevant before payment.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk. The site’s credible-looking construction narrative does not overcome the confirmed external threat detections and unresolved operator-identity concerns. Sensitive interaction risk is therefore elevated, particularly for credentials, financial transactions, or confidential business information.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by a CDN/WAF, which provides a mitigating layer against direct exposure and infrastructure abuse but is not evidence of business legitimacy. The observed edge infrastructure is associated with Hetzner Online GmbH, and the origin server was not observable in this analysis; the edge-only view also limits independent assessment of hosting continuity and possible rapid content changes.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users should restrict activity to passive review until the operator, registration status, contact channels, and payment arrangements have been independently validated; credentials, confidential documents, and funds should not be committed on the basis of the website alone.
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 |
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| 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 alanbat.qa.
- The request stayed on alanbat.qa. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by wafracloud.net, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-11-25. Clear
- It is hosted on HETZNER-AS, from a server in DE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
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| Hosting | HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE |
| Country | DE |
| Server IP | 157.180.42.109 |
| Name servers | ns1.vpsucavnc.wafracloud.net, ns2.vpsucavnc.wafracloud.net |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-06 |
| Domain age | 4.70 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2021-11-25 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 6 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about alanbat.qa 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.