Verdict
artella.uk 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 corporate site for Artella wooden door systems: product catalog (classic, elite, modern models), corporate pages, dealer info, store locations and contact details. |
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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 | 13 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 4.7 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2023Public 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 2023.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
Artella.uk presents itself as a corporate manufacturer and seller of wooden interior door systems, offering product information, corporate material, dealer relationships, store locations, and direct-contact purchasing pathways for residential and project customers.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The website’s visible content is consistent with a conventional corporate product catalogue and does not itself show an obvious financial solicitation, credential-harvesting flow, or confirmed brand-impersonation pattern. However, this benign presentation is materially outweighed by strong external threat detections and a confirmed blacklist status. The resulting risk is not a minor reputation concern: the available evidence supports suspending login, credential, payment, and other sensitive interactions until the detection outcome and operator identity are independently resolved.
- The homepage and corporate navigation present Artella wooden door systems, dealer information, store locations, and contact pathways rather than financial or cryptocurrency services.
- External reputation assessment recorded 13 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection, including a confirmed external blacklist status.
- The domain was registered on 2021-12-19 and is approximately 4.67 years old.
- Archive coverage records 0 snapshots, with first-seen 2023-08-19, last-seen 2025-04-27, and 3 years tracked; this is limited historical coverage rather than evidence of a short domain age.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The corporate, about, dealer, certificate, and contact sections provide a substantial business presentation, including classic, elite, modern, functional, fire-rated, acoustic, barn-door, and site-specific door offerings. Nevertheless, the available material does not independently verify the real-world operator, and no licensing authority or registration number is identified in the supplied pages; for a door manufacturer this is primarily a corporate-disclosure and counterparty-verification gap, not by itself evidence of fraud. A third-party broker dataset returned no matching broker record, but that result has no legal or regulatory significance.
- The site’s corporate pages identify management, mission, activity reporting, consultants, policies, certificates, domestic and international dealers, projects, and stores.
- The supplied corporate pages do not state a licensing authority or licensing number.
- The site is hosted on AS48660 by VeriUP - VERIUP Bulut Internet Hizmetleri A.S., TR.
- The transport certificate is issued by YR2, uses DV validation, and is valid until 2026-09-20 10:14:44 UTC.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive engagement, an independent corporate registry search should establish the legal entity behind the site and confirm that the published brand, stores, dealers, and management information correspond to that entity. Dealer and contact details should be validated through independently sourced telephone numbers or business records rather than relying solely on contact information presented on the site. The blacklist and malicious-detection results should also be reviewed by the organisation’s security team, with access controls and web filtering maintained until the cause is satisfactorily explained.
- The operator connection remains unverified in the available identity assessment.
- The site provides corporate and dealer information that can be cross-checked against independent business records.
- The security assessment recorded a confirmed external blacklist status and multiple malicious detections.
- The homepage was captured successfully and presented a corporate/product-catalogue structure without an evident sensitive form.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical and unsuitable for sensitive interaction. The site has a credible-looking commercial presentation, but the confirmed blacklist status and strong malicious-detection signal create a decisive trust failure, while the real-world operator remains unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single likely origin address, with no trusted CDN or WAF identified and no edge-IP layer observed. This provides no meaningful protective infrastructure to offset the external reputation risk.
Closing Assessment
Access should remain limited to controlled, non-interactive review until independent identity validation and security-team resolution of the external detections are complete; credentials, payments, and other sensitive actions should not be performed 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, 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 - The page rewrote itself after it was interacted with, so what a visitor first sees is not what they end up on.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_DOM_DIFF_AFTER_INTERACTION - A large share of what the page loaded came from other domains.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_MODERATE - 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 artella.uk.
- The request stayed on artella.uk. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Atak Domain Bilgi Teknolojileri Inc.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by tr., across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-12-19. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2023-08-19. Clear
- It is hosted on VeriUP, from a server in TR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Atak Domain Bilgi Teknolojileri Inc. |
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| Hosting | VeriUP - VERIUP Bulut Internet Hizmetleri A.S., TR |
| Country | TR |
| Server IP | 78.111.111.40 |
| Name servers | ns1.artella.com.tr., ns2.artella.com.tr. |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-20 |
| Domain age | 4.67 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-12-19 |
| Archive first seen | 2023-08-19 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 13 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about artella.uk 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.