Verdict
alankaraa.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 | Small branded landing/site for 'Alankaraa' focused on promoting products with an email signup/contact form, cookie notice, and Google reCAPTCHA. No transaction or investment flows visible. |
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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 | 14 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 26% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 13 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 5.0 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2021Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GoDaddy TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1 | 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, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
Alankaraa is a branded landing site presenting “Heritage Meets Modern Style” alongside a Contact Us and email-signup form, apparently intended to promote heritage-inspired goods and collect leads for updates, promotions, and related marketing rather than provide financial or investment services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site has a confirmed external threat contradiction: multiple reputation services identified the domain as malicious, and the domain is blacklisted by external sources. The visible page itself contains no login form, payment flow, investment mechanism, or detected brand-impersonation pattern, but that relatively benign presentation does not offset the external detections. Runtime analysis also characterized the network activity as suspicious, with a high proportion of external requests and non-whitelisted traffic. Abuse reports associated with the observed address are attributed to Amazon shared infrastructure, so they are not treated as direct proof that the site operator generated those reports; nevertheless, the reports remain a relevant negative signal because the attribution was not discounted. No conflicting legal identities or site-level impersonation findings were observed.
- External reputation evaluation recorded 14 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection for the domain; Fortinet and Sophos were among the flagged vendors.
- The domain was present on external blacklist sources, with the associated protective response mechanism active.
- The observed Amazon address had 13 abuse reports, attributed to shared CDN infrastructure rather than directly to the website operator.
- The domain registration record shows creation on 2021-08-04T15:00:29Z, approximately 5.04 years ago; the historical record spans 2021-11-25 to 2026-04-19, covering 6 years of tracked history.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available page content does not show a legal-entity name, licensing authority, registration number, or other formal regulatory disclosure. This is a verification and transparency gap, not an identity contradiction by itself. The operator’s real-world identity is not independently verified. A valid domain-validated TLS certificate and a multi-year registration through GoDaddy.com, LLC provide technical and administrative continuity, but neither establishes the operator’s legitimacy or regulatory standing. The available third-party broker context contains no matching result, which provides no independent basis for treating the site as a regulated financial entity.
- The homepage displays the brand name “Alankaraa,” a 2025 copyright notice, and contact functionality, but no legal-entity or licensing disclosure.
- The domain is registered through GoDaddy.com, LLC, with the registration record showing expiration on 2028-08-04T15:00:29Z.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by GoDaddy TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1 at DV validation level and is valid through 2026-10-11T07:12:18+00:00.
- The site is served through AS16509, identified as AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, an independent registry check should confirm the legal entity operating the brand and whether any claimed retail or promotional activity is conducted by that entity. Contact details should be validated through an independently sourced channel rather than relying solely on the site’s form. Any proposed purchase should be limited to payment methods offering meaningful dispute and recovery protections, and credentials should not be reused or submitted until the external threat findings have been resolved and the operator has been independently established.
- The available capture contains one contact/email-signup form and no visible sensitive-data form or transaction flow.
- The site presents no visible license, registration number, or formal operator disclosure to anchor an independent registry check.
- Runtime testing recorded 127 external XHR requests, including 120 non-whitelisted requests, and 2 non-whitelisted external posts.
Summary Verdict
The website presents a critical trust posture for sensitive interaction. Its apparently simple retail landing-page presentation is outweighed by confirmed malicious detections and blacklist presence, while the operator identity remains unverified. Account access, credential submission, payment activity, and other sensitive engagement are not supported by the available evidence.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by a CDN/WAF configuration with all observed addresses belonging to Amazon edge infrastructure; no origin candidate was identified in the analysis. This reduces direct exposure of the underlying host and can mitigate infrastructure-level exposure, but it does not establish legitimacy or neutralize the external threat findings.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate institutional posture is to restrict activity to non-sensitive observation until independent operator verification and resolution of the external security detections have been completed.
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, 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 page sent data to a destination TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_POSTS - The page made background requests to destinations TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_XHR - The page exchanged network traffic with destinations TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_TRAFFIC - Most of what the page loaded came from other domains rather than from this one.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_HIGH - 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
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 13 reports on hosting IP 76.223.105.230 (Amazon.com, Inc., Content Delivery Network), 26% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
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 alankaraa.com.
- The request stayed on alankaraa.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by domaincontrol.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-08-04. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-11-25. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 76.223.105.230 |
| Name servers | NS39.DOMAINCONTROL.COM, NS40.DOMAINCONTROL.COM |
| SSL issuer | GoDaddy TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-11 |
| Domain age | 5.04 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-08-04 |
| Archive first seen | 2021-11-25 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 14 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 26% confidence, 13 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about alankaraa.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.