Verdict
anktyres.co.za 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 | This page is a basic web server 'Index of /' directory listing (file names, modified dates). No forms, no social links, and no apparent monetization or interactive features. |
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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 | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 7.7 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
Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
anktyres.co.za currently presents a basic web-server directory listing rather than a developed business website: visitors see an “Index of /” page containing a file listing and a single `cgi-bin/` directory, with no apparent service, commercial offering, or interactive user workflow.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site carries a confirmed blacklist and threat-detection concern. External security assessment recorded 10 malicious and 2 suspicious detections, including a Tier-1 detection associated with Sophos, and the domain was identified by two external blacklist sources. These findings materially outweigh the benign appearance of the captured page. The page itself contains no login form, payment form, wallet connection, or obvious phishing content, but its limited surface does not establish that other paths or future content are safe. No separate brand-impersonation or conflicting legal-identity finding was recorded.
- The homepage is a directory index titled “Index of /” and exposes a `cgi-bin/` directory rather than a conventional business interface.
- External assessment recorded 10 malicious detections and 2 suspicious detections, with Sophos identified among the flagged providers.
- The domain is recorded as blacklisted by two external sources; the separate Google Safe Browsing result was negative.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available site presentation does not identify an operating company, regulatory status, license, registration number, or governing jurisdiction. This is a material transparency gap for any prospective commercial or financial engagement, while the independently assessed operator identity remains unverified. The domain’s registration history and transport security are concrete technical facts, but neither establishes the legitimacy or regulatory standing of the operator.
- Domain registered in 2018; recorded age 7.71 years; registrar: 1-Grid.
- TLS certificate issued by YR2 with DV validation, valid to 2026-09-29.
- The captured homepage provides no license claim, license number, company disclosure, or legal-entity information.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, an independent source should confirm that this exact domain is officially associated with the intended organization. Any claimed company or regulated activity should be checked against the relevant corporate and regulatory registries using independently obtained records, and contact channels should be confirmed through an offline or separately published route. Until those checks succeed, credentials, payments, downloads, and other sensitive actions should remain outside the approved workflow.
- The captured page contains no company, licensing, or regulatory references from which operator status can be validated.
- The page has no forms, external links, social links, or stated service description to support an independent identity cross-check.
- The identity-verification status is unverified.
Summary Verdict
The website should be treated as a critical trust risk with an unverified operator identity and an unsuitable posture for sensitive interaction. Its current directory-style presentation provides insufficient business context to counter the confirmed external threat and blacklist findings.
Infrastructure Integrity
The domain resolves directly to infrastructure operated by 1 GRID (PTY) LTD in South Africa, without a detected CDN or WAF layer; the observed address is therefore an exposed hosting endpoint rather than a protected edge presentation. Valid DV TLS supports encrypted transport only and does not provide assurance about the operator or content.
- Served from AS36943 (1 GRID (PTY) LTD - 1 GRID (PTY) LTD, ZA).
- One resolved IP was observed, with 0 edge IPs and 1 likely origin IP.
- No CDN or trusted WAF vendor was detected.
Closing Assessment
Activity should remain limited to non-sensitive observation until independent identity, regulatory, and security verification has been completed; credential submission and financial interaction should not proceed 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, 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 anktyres.co.za.
- The request stayed on anktyres.co.za. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under 1-Grid. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by 1-grid.com, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-12-05. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-11-26. Clear
- It is hosted on 1 GRID (PTY) LTD, from a server in ZA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | 1-Grid |
|---|---|
| Hosting | 1 GRID (PTY) LTD - 1 GRID (PTY) LTD, ZA |
| Country | ZA |
| Server IP | 41.185.8.55 |
| Name servers | linus.ns.1-grid.com, linus.ns.1-grid.net, linus.ns.1-grid.co.za, linus.ns.1-grid.co.uk |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-29 |
| Domain age | 7.71 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-12-05 |
| Archive first seen | 2021-11-26 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 10 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about anktyres.co.za 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.