Verdict
ashfordformula.com.mx 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 | Simple page offering a corporate presentation (38 Mb) for Grupo Ashford. Minimal content and no forms or transactional elements. |
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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 | 11 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 100% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 912 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Risk |
| Domain age | 20 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2013246 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | 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 2013.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Kaspersky, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
The website at ashfordformula.com.mx presents a minimal corporate information page for Grupo Ashford, offering visitors a downloadable 38 MB corporate presentation and appearing intended for informational rather than transactional use.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site presents a simple corporate-facing page and no on-page impersonation, phishing form, or conflicting legal identity was identified. However, this benign presentation is outweighed by confirmed external malicious detections and blacklist status, creating a material risk for sensitive interaction. Separate reports concerning the hosting IP are attributed to shared infrastructure operated by WHG Hosting Services Ltd; that attribution does not establish that every report concerns this specific website, but it remains a relevant adverse signal. The site's real-world operator also remains independently unverified. No third-party broker match was identified.
- The homepage is titled “Presentacion Grupo Ashford” and contains only a brief presentation reference with no login, payment, or sensitive-data form.
- External reputation assessment recorded 11 malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist hit for the domain.
- The shared hosting IP, 192.250.227.24, has 912 abuse reports with a confidence score of 100; the reports are attributed to shared provider infrastructure.
- The domain was registered on 2006-08-02 and is approximately 20.07 years old; archival records contain 246 snapshots spanning 2013–2026 across 14 tracked years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available site material identifies the presentation with the Grupo Ashford name but does not disclose a license, registration number, or independently verifiable regulatory authorization. This is a transparency and verification gap rather than, by itself, proof of misconduct; in the present case, it must nevertheless be considered alongside the adverse external threat findings. The site's transport encryption is valid but provides domain-control assurance only, not proof of corporate identity or regulatory standing.
- The homepage provides a corporate presentation reference but no license number or licensing authority.
- The site is hosted on AS36454, WHG-DAL - WHG Hosting Services Ltd, GB.
- TLS uses issuer YR2 with DV validation and is valid to 2026-10-02 08:44:12 UTC.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, an independent corporate-registry check should confirm that Grupo Ashford is connected to the domain and to a clearly identified legal entity. Any claimed authorization or regulated activity should be checked directly with the relevant official registry, using contact details obtained independently rather than from the site. The downloadable presentation should be handled as untrusted content and scanned before opening, and any necessary engagement should remain limited to passive review until those checks are complete.
- The homepage contains no form, login mechanism, payment workflow, or external submission destination.
- Behavioral testing recorded 0 external XHR requests, 0 external POST requests, and 0 hidden forms across 2 successful runs.
- The page contains approximately 96 characters of visible DOM text and no substantive legal, licensing, or contact-information section.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical risk for sensitive interaction. The site's informational appearance and stable technical behavior do not overcome the convergence of confirmed external threat detections, blacklist status, and unresolved independent identity verification.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is served directly from WHG-DAL - WHG Hosting Services Ltd in Great Britain, with no detected CDN or WAF provider and one likely origin IP. This infrastructure configuration offers no meaningful protective mitigation against the adverse reputation findings and should not be treated as evidence of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Sensitive use should not proceed; any unavoidable review should remain passive and be preceded by independent confirmation of the operator, authorization, and file safety.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-22 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
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 912 reports on hosting IP 192.250.227.24 (WHG Hosting Services Ltd, 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 | 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 ashfordformula.com.mx.
- The request stayed on ashfordformula.com.mx. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under AKKY ONLINE SOLUTIONS, S.A. DE C.V.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by mysecurecloudhost.com, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-08-01. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2013-05-08. Clear
- It is hosted on WHG-DAL, from a server in GB. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | AKKY ONLINE SOLUTIONS, S.A. DE C.V. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | WHG-DAL - WHG Hosting Services Ltd, GB |
| Country | GB |
| Server IP | 192.250.227.24 |
| Name servers | ns1.mysecurecloudhost.com, ns2.mysecurecloudhost.com, ns3.mysecurecloudhost.com, ns4.mysecurecloudhost.com |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-02 |
| Domain age | 20.07 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-08-01 |
| Archive first seen | 2013-05-08 |
| Archive snapshots | 246 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 11 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 100% confidence, 912 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about ashfordformula.com.mx 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.