Verdict
art-bot.ru 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 | Landing page for 'Art-bot', an AI-driven article and image generation service offering API integration, examples of workflow, pricing per 1000 characters and per image, and contact information. Contains account/login entry points and forms to request service. |
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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 | 4 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 2.8 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2011Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: 1 to 3 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
Security Alert
Fortinet flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
Art-bot is an AI content-generation service that presents automated production of SEO articles and matching images, API-based publishing, workflow examples, paid per-use pricing, account access, and service-request functionality. Its apparent business model is a SaaS offering for organizations seeking automated written and visual content.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site presents a conventional software-service proposition rather than financial or investment activity, and the supplied page analysis found no obvious credential-harvesting mechanics, wallet activity, external form destinations, or brand-impersonation indicators. However, this benign page presentation is outweighed by confirmed external threat signals: four malicious detections, one suspicious detection, a Tier-1 Fortinet detection, and blacklist records from two sources. The presence of an account login and registration pathway creates a sensitive interaction surface, so the site should be treated as a confirmed blacklist-associated risk despite the absence of additional page-level fraud indicators.
- The homepage describes Art-bot as an AI service for generating articles and images, with API integration and paid usage.
- The homepage contains login and registration entry points; behavioral testing recorded 4 password forms and no external password-form submissions.
- External reputation assessment recorded 4 malicious detections, 1 suspicious detection, and a Fortinet threat detection; blacklist status was recorded by VT and EXTERNAL_BLACKLIST.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The real-world operator identity remains unverified, and the site's governance and legal disclosure position is unclear. No licensing claim, licensing authority, or license number is presented for the software service; this is a regulatory transparency gap rather than independent proof of fraud. The available broker-reputation dataset produced no match, but that result provides only limited contextual reassurance and does not resolve the external threat detections or establish legal standing.
- Domain registration records show registration on 2023-10-20 and an age of 2.84 years; registrar: DOMAINSHOP-RU.
- The homepage identifies the service as Art-bot and refers to its creators as “Production-it,” but the supplied evidence does not independently verify the associated legal entity.
- Hosting is on AS49505, SELECTEL - JSC Selectel, RU.
- The site's TLS certificate is issued by YE1 at DV validation level and is valid to 2026-09-17.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, an independent corporate-registry and contractual review should establish the entity responsible for the service, its operating jurisdiction, and the party receiving payment. Any applicable software, data-processing, or sector-specific authorization should be confirmed directly with the relevant regulator or registry rather than inferred from the website. Account and payment channels should be validated through an independently obtained contact route, and any proposed service agreement should identify liability, data handling, refunds, and dispute resolution.
- The homepage provides service, pricing, account, and contact functions that should be reconciled with independently verified contracting information.
- The site’s legal and licensing position is not sufficiently established by the supplied page content.
- The technical certificate confirms encrypted transport but does not authenticate the operator or validate the business relationship.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk, driven by convergent external threat and blacklist evidence together with unresolved operator identity and governance concerns. The site’s polished SaaS presentation and absence of obvious malicious page behavior do not provide sufficient grounds for trust in sensitive interactions.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single endpoint at 212.41.8.101 in Russia, with no detected CDN or WAF intermediary; this provides less protective separation between the public service and its hosting environment. Direct hosting on SELECTEL is a neutral infrastructure fact and should be treated only as limited mitigation, not as evidence of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Login, credential submission, payment, and other sensitive actions should be withheld unless the operator, contractual counterparty, and applicable compliance position have been independently established through trusted channels.
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 structure of the page changed sharply while it was loading.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_DOM_DENSITY_SPIKE - 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 art-bot.ru.
- The request stayed on art-bot.ru. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under DOMAINSHOP-RU. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ru., across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-10-20. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2011-09-29. Clear
- It is hosted on SELECTEL, from a server in RU. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | DOMAINSHOP-RU |
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| Hosting | SELECTEL - JSC Selectel, RU |
| Country | RU |
| Server IP | 212.41.8.101 |
| Name servers | ns1.locum.ru., ns2.locum.ru. |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-17 |
| Domain age | 2.84 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-10-20 |
| Archive first seen | 2011-09-29 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 4 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about art-bot.ru 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.