Verdict
allpac.com.au 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 | Allpac Packaging Supplies — Melbourne-based family business selling packaging and janitorial supplies with product list, delivery area, phone number and physical address. Static informational/catalog 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 | 2 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 16 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2011Public 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 2011.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This website is a static Australian small-business catalog for Allpac Packaging Supplies, presenting retail and garment bags, bubble wrap, stretch and shrink film, mailing bags, packaging tape, cable ties, janitorial supplies, and related materials for local delivery across Melbourne. Its apparent business model is the sale and distribution of physical packaging and cleaning products rather than financial or digital services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site content itself presents a conventional local-business profile and does not show a login form, sensitive-data form, cryptocurrency functionality, or apparent brand-impersonation pattern. However, external threat intelligence records malicious and suspicious detections for the domain, and the domain is blacklisted by two external sources. This is a material contradiction to the otherwise benign static catalog presentation and creates elevated risk for credentials, payments, or other sensitive interactions. The available evidence does not establish an identity contradiction between two legal entities, but the site's real-world operator remains independently unverified.
- The homepage presents a static product catalog and contact information, with no login form, hidden form, or sensitive form detected.
- External reputation assessment recorded 2 malicious detections and 2 suspicious detections; blacklist status was confirmed by 2 sources.
- Domain registration continuity: registered 2011, approximately 15.59 years old.
- Web-archive coverage: 87 snapshots spanning 2011–2025, across 15 years tracked; the historical record did not indicate suspicious repurposing.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage identifies Allpac Packaging Supplies as a Melbourne-based Australian-owned family business and states that it has supplied customers for more than 30 years. The reviewed material describes ordinary goods distribution and does not claim to provide a regulated financial service; no license or registration number was disclosed, so regulatory licensing is not applicable on the face of the stated business model but remains a transparency point if the site is used for commercial purchasing. Technical registration data lists Web Address Registration Pty Ltd as registrar and ALLPAC PACKAGING SUPPLIES PTY. LTD. as registrant, which is directionally consistent with the on-page business name, but this does not independently verify the operator's current authority to trade. No matching broker warning was identified in the reviewed third-party broker context.
- The homepage identifies the business as “Allpac Packaging Supplies,” describes it as an Australian-owned family business, and gives a Melbourne-area operating location.
- Domain registration records identify Web Address Registration Pty Ltd as registrar and ALLPAC PACKAGING SUPPLIES PTY. LTD. as registrant.
- Hosting telemetry: served from AS29802, HVC-AS – HIVELOCITY, Inc., US.
- Transport security telemetry: TLS certificate issued by YR1 with DV validation, valid to 2026-10-06.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive engagement, an independent registry check should confirm that ALLPAC PACKAGING SUPPLIES PTY. LTD. is active and that its trading details correspond to the business represented on the site. The blacklist and malicious-detection results should be independently validated and resolved with the relevant security or hosting parties before credentials, payment information, or other sensitive data are submitted. Any purchase should also be supported by independently confirmed contact channels, clear delivery and returns terms, and payment protection.
- Independent corporate-registry verification is warranted because the site's operator identity has not been independently verified.
- Independent resolution of the recorded blacklist and malicious-detection results is warranted before sensitive interaction.
- The site's static catalog and local-delivery model make external confirmation of fulfilment and payment terms an appropriate pre-purchase control.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with a high level of concern for sensitive interaction. The site has a plausible small-business presentation, but the confirmed external reputation contradictions outweigh that otherwise conventional appearance. Legitimacy remains apparent from the content rather than proven as an independently verified operator identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single apparent origin address and is not behind a detected CDN or WAF. It is hosted by HVC-AS – HIVELOCITY, Inc. in the United States on AS29802, and its DV TLS certificate provides transport encryption; these are technical safeguards, not evidence that the business or domain is legitimate.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users should restrict activity to non-sensitive review until the domain's external reputation findings and business identity have been independently resolved, and should not submit credentials or payment details in the interim.
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
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 allpac.com.au.
- The request stayed on allpac.com.au. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Web Address Registration Pty Ltd. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by netwizard.au, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2011-01-15. Clear
- It is hosted on HVC-AS, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Web Address Registration Pty Ltd |
|---|---|
| Hosting | HVC-AS - HIVELOCITY, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 209.133.213.186 |
| Name servers | ns1.netwizard.au, ns2.netwizard.au |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-06 |
| Domain age | 15.59 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2011-01-15 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about allpac.com.au 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.