Verdict
arkansasanimefestival.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 site for the Arkansas Anime Festival, describing the 2025 event dates and location, ticketing information, volunteer and panel sign-up forms, guest list, schedule link, and hotel booking. Content appears consistent with an event organizer 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 | 5 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 19 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2007Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | 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 2007.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Kaspersky flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
The website presents the Arkansas Anime Festival, an in-person convention promoted through event information, schedules, guest and activity listings, ticket and badge sales, hotel-booking referrals, and volunteer or panel-submission forms.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site's visible content is internally consistent with an event-organizer website and does not show an apparent brand-impersonation or conflicting-identity pattern. However, that benign presentation is outweighed by a confirmed external blacklist status and multiple malicious or suspicious detections, creating a material contradiction that requires a security-first posture. Behavioral testing also detected hidden forms in both observed runs; although no password-external form or wallet-draining behavior was identified, the hidden-form behavior is inconsistent with treating the site as suitable for sensitive interaction. The site should therefore not be used for login, credential submission, payment, or other financial activity unless its status is independently resolved.
- The homepage describes the 2025 festival, venue, schedule, ticketing, hotel booking, guests, and activities in content consistent with an event website.
- Behavioral testing detected hidden forms in 2 of 2 runs, with 0 external password forms and 0 wallet-drainer runs.
- External reputation telemetry recorded 5 malicious and 2 suspicious detections, including a confirmed blacklist result from multiple external sources.
- The domain was registered on 2007-09-18 and is 18.93 years old; archival coverage records 154 snapshots spanning 2007–2026, across 20 tracked years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s apparent business is event ticketing rather than a regulated financial service, but the available pages do not establish the legal entity operating the event or provide a regulatory registration or license number. Because the real-world operator identity remains unverified, the site's own event branding should be treated as an assertion rather than proof of organizational identity. The absence of a broker-data match provides no independent regulatory endorsement or adverse broker finding.
- The homepage, About, Contact, Rules & FAQ, and ticketing content identify the event and its activities but do not provide a verified legal-entity or licensing reference.
- The site's transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YE1, valid to 2026-10-15T08:46:41+00:00.
- Page analysis identified 3 forms: volunteer signup, panel submission, and contact registration; no sensitive form was identified.
What to Verify Next
Before any payment or submission, an independent organizer identity should be confirmed through the venue, publicly verifiable event announcements, and an offline or independently sourced contact route. Ticket and hotel transactions should be checked for the actual merchant of record, refund terms, payment-protection availability, and whether the transaction destination matches the expected event operator. Any licensing or registration requirement applicable to the organizer or ticketing intermediary should be checked directly with the relevant authority rather than relying on site content.
- The Tickets page provides the transaction path that should be checked for merchant identity, refund conditions, and payment protections.
- The Hotel page provides the booking path that should be validated independently with the named venue or accommodation provider.
- The Contact and About pages provide the organizational details to corroborate through an independent channel.
- The Rules & FAQ pages provide the event terms that should be reviewed before any purchase or registration.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk. The website’s plausible event content and long-running domain history do not offset the confirmed external reputation contradiction and the unresolved operator identity. Sensitive interaction is not appropriate on the basis of the available evidence.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is hosted directly on Hostinger infrastructure, with no detected CDN or WAF vendor and four likely origin IP addresses; this provides limited infrastructure-level mitigation and leaves the hosting posture more directly exposed. The resolved hosting location is Ukraine, and the direct-origin arrangement should not be interpreted as evidence of legitimacy.
- Hosted on AS47583, AS-HOSTINGER — Hostinger International Limited, CY; resolved country: UA.
- Infrastructure analysis identified 4 unique IP addresses, 0 edge IP addresses, and 4 likely origin IP addresses.
- No CDN was detected, and no CDN/WAF vendor was identified.
- TLS certificate issuer: YE1; validation level: DV; valid to 2026-10-15T08:46:41+00:00.
Closing Assessment
Sensitive actions should remain suspended until the operator, transaction counterparties, and external reputation status have been independently confirmed through trusted channels. Any necessary follow-up should be limited to non-sensitive review while those checks are pending.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 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 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 - The page contained a form a visitor cannot see.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_HIDDEN_FORMS - 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 arkansasanimefestival.com.
- The request stayed on arkansasanimefestival.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Launchpad.com Inc.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by dns-parking.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-09-18. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2007-10-15. Clear
- It is hosted on AS-HOSTINGER, from a server in UA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Launchpad.com Inc. |
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| Hosting | AS-HOSTINGER - Hostinger International Limited, CY |
| Country | UA |
| Server IP | 2a02:4780:42:7a95:b52b:abeb:fbf7:f266 |
| Name servers | NS1.DNS-PARKING.COM, NS2.DNS-PARKING.COM |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-15 |
| Domain age | 18.93 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-09-18 |
| Archive first seen | 2007-10-15 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 5 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about arkansasanimefestival.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.