Verdict
albesher.sa is low-trust and potentially risky.
Several risk patterns were present. Do not send money or personal details until you have verified this business another way.
| What this site appears to be | Arabic-language website for 'مكتب المحامي بندر بن فهد البشر' presenting firm history, practice areas, news, legal library, partners, and contact/branch details (Riyadh and Dammam). |
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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 | 2 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 29% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 8 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 9.5 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2017Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | 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 2017.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This Arabic-language website presents the law office of Bander bin Fahd Al-Besher, offering legal consultation, court representation, and services for corporate, labor, administrative, civil, personal-status, and criminal matters, with informational content, legal articles, office news, and branch contact details.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The website’s content and observed behavior are consistent with a professional law-firm presentation: it contains substantive service descriptions, an about section, legal-library material, branch information, and a contact form without a login or password-collection function. However, this positive page-level presentation is outweighed by a material external contradiction: the domain has been recorded on blacklist infrastructure and received malicious and suspicious detections in external reputation checks. The associated abuse reports concern a shared hosting IP rather than a confirmed act by the website itself, but they remain relevant risk context. No conflicting legal-entity names or direct site-level impersonation indicators were observed; the concern is instead the confirmed external reputation signal and the lack of independently verified operator identity.
- The homepage identifies the office as “مكتب المحامي بندر بن فهد البشر” and lists legal consultation, court representation, and multiple legal practice areas.
- Domain age is 9.45927446954141 years based on registration continuity.
- The historical record shows first observation on 2017-03-04 and last observation on 2026-05-14, with 10 years tracked.
- External checks recorded 2 malicious detections, 2 suspicious detections, and a blacklist hit; 8 abuse reports were associated with shared IP address 162.55.86.195.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site describes a Saudi law-office business model and states on its content that the office was established in 1430H, with Riyadh and Dammam branches. Those on-site claims are not sufficient to independently establish the real-world operator or professional authorization. No licensing authority or license number is presented in the supplied site content, leaving a material regulatory-disclosure gap for a legal-services provider. The available broker-reputation dataset contained no matching record, but that is contextual only and is not a licensing or regulatory determination. Ownership and governance disclosures remain unclear, which is significant given the external reputation contradiction.
- The about and services content describes the office’s establishment, legal representation, consultation services, and corporate and individual case work.
- The contact content identifies Riyadh and Dammam branch locations and provides office contact channels.
- No licensing authority or license number appears in the supplied legal-services content.
- Hosting is on AS24940, HETZNER-AS – Hetzner Online GmbH, DE; TLS uses issuer YR1 with DV validation and is valid to 2026-09-20T01:15:57+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any substantive engagement, an independent check should match the exact office name, named lawyer, branch locations, and professional authorization against the applicable Saudi legal-profession registry. Engagement terms, document-handling arrangements, and payment instructions should be confirmed through a contact route obtained independently of the website. Sensitive legal documents, identity information, or funds should not be provided until those checks reconcile the site’s claimed identity with an authoritative external record.
- Registry verification should test the office and lawyer identity stated on the about page against an authoritative professional register.
- Branch and contact details should be corroborated through an independently sourced telephone number or official offline record.
- Any proposed engagement should be checked against written terms identifying the responsible legal professional and payment recipient.
- The site exposes one contact form and no login form or password-external submission during the observed interaction.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated risk for sensitive interaction. The site appears professionally structured and presents a coherent legal-services purpose, but the confirmed external reputation contradiction and unverified real-world identity prevent a reliable legitimacy conclusion.
Infrastructure Integrity
CDN/WAF protection is present, and the observed addressing was edge-only with no origin candidate identified. This reduces direct origin exposure and is a mitigating technical control, but it does not establish the legitimacy of the operator or offset the external reputation concern.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate near-term posture is passive viewing only, with no sensitive submission or financial engagement until independent identity, authorization, and contact-channel checks 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.
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
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 8 reports on hosting IP 162.55.86.195 (Hetzner Online GmbH, Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 29% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
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 albesher.sa.
- The request stayed on albesher.sa. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2017-03-04. Clear
- It is hosted on HETZNER-AS, from a server in DE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE |
| Country | DE |
| Server IP | 162.55.86.195 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-20 |
| Domain age | 9.46 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2017-03-04 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 29% confidence, 8 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about albesher.sa 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.