Verdict
alrobaya.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 AL ROBAYA LIMITED CO., an established Saudi construction and maintenance contractor serving oil & gas and petrochemical sectors. The site provides company history, services, projects, certifications, leadership, and contact details including a contact form and postal/phone/email information. |
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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 | 10 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 100% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 48 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Risk |
| Domain age | 23 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2004278 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | 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 2004.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This website presents itself as the corporate website of AL ROBAYA LIMITED CO., a Saudi construction and maintenance contractor serving oil and gas, petrochemical, electrical, instrumentation, infrastructure, and industrial clients through project contracts and service agreements. It provides company history, services, project information, certifications, workforce and safety claims, leadership information, careers content, and contact functionality.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No identity contradiction, phishing form, or brand-impersonation indicator was observed in the reviewed site content. However, the domain is subject to a confirmed blacklist finding and multiple external malicious detections, creating a direct contradiction between the site’s professional corporate presentation and its external threat reputation. Abuse reports associated with the observed IP are attributed to shared content-delivery infrastructure and therefore do not, by themselves, establish misconduct by this website; they nevertheless reinforce the need for a security-forward posture. Independent identity verification remains incomplete, and the confirmed blacklist status makes login, credential submission, and financial interaction inappropriate pending resolution.
- The homepage presents AL ROBAYA LIMITED CO. as a Saudi construction and maintenance contractor, with no detected phishing indicators, hidden forms, or brand-impersonation markers.
- External reputation assessment recorded 10 malicious and 2 suspicious detections, with a confirmed blacklist finding; a Tier-1 security provider also flagged the domain.
- The domain was registered in 2003 and is 22.84 years old; the registrar is PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com.
- Web-archive records contain 278 snapshots spanning 2004–2025, covering 22 tracked years, with no suspicious repurposing or semantic drift identified.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site supplies a substantial corporate narrative and identifies the business as AL ROBAYA LIMITED CO., based in Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia. It claims ISO 45001:2018 certification, Saudi Aramco registered-vendor status under number 2036, and a SABIC global procurement partnership; these are on-site claims rather than independently verified regulatory findings. The available material does not establish a current government licence or independently confirm the claimed commercial relationships. A third-party broker dataset returned no match, which is contextual only and does not resolve the security contradiction or establish legal standing.
- The About, Services, Projects, and Certifications content describes oil and gas, petrochemical, electrical, instrumentation, roadwork, and industrial-maintenance services.
- The Certifications and Registrations content states “ISO 45001:2018 Certified,” “Saudi Aramco Registered Vendor #2036,” and “SABIC Global Procurement Partner.”
- The site’s hosting infrastructure is served through AS13335, CLOUDFLARENET – Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by WE1 using DV validation and is valid to 2026-10-22T02:02:12+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any business engagement, an independent counterparty review should confirm AL ROBAYA LIMITED CO.’s legal registration, current operating status, and any sector-specific licensing with the relevant Saudi authorities. The claimed Saudi Aramco and SABIC relationships should be confirmed through independently sourced procurement or vendor records rather than through the website alone. Contact details should be cross-checked using an offline or independently obtained corporate source, and any proposed payment, document exchange, or account access should remain suspended until the blacklist and malicious-detection findings are resolved.
- The site provides a contact form and corporate contact details, but the identity connection is not independently verified.
- The Certifications and Registrations page contains commercial-registration and certification claims that require confirmation through the named organizations.
- The reviewed site contains one contact form and no detected password or sensitive-information form.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical and unsuitable for sensitive interaction. Although the site has a coherent corporate presentation and indicators of long-term continuity, the confirmed blacklist and malicious external detections outweigh those positive contextual signals. The apparent business identity should therefore be treated as unverified rather than established.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection is present, and all observed addresses are CDN edge servers; the origin server was not observable in this analysis. This provides a mitigating layer against direct exposure but is not evidence of legitimacy and cannot offset the external threat findings.
Closing Assessment
Restrict activity to passive review while independent legal, commercial, and security validation is completed; do not proceed with login, credential submission, financial transactions, or sensitive document exchange.
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
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 48 reports on hosting IP 185.158.133.1 (Internet Utilities Europe and Asia Limited, Content Delivery Network), 100% 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 alrobaya.com.
- The request stayed on alrobaya.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 softwebdesigners.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-10-23. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2004-03-22. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in AE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | AE |
| Server IP | 185.158.133.1 |
| Name servers | NS91.SOFTWEBDESIGNERS.COM, NS92.SOFTWEBDESIGNERS.COM |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-22 |
| Domain age | 22.84 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-10-23 |
| Archive first seen | 2004-03-22 |
| Archive snapshots | 278 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 10 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 100% confidence, 48 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about alrobaya.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.