Verdict
aureumcs.ca 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 | Local construction and surveying company website describing services (industrial, land development, underground utilities, drone surveying), team experience, values, and contact details in Spruce Grove, Alberta. |
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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 | 8 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 7.5 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
Overview
Aureum Construction Services is a local Alberta construction and surveying website presenting industrial and commercial surveying, land-development surveying, underground-utility surveying, unmanned aerial mapping, and machine-control services for project clients.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site presents a coherent local-service business model and does not show a login form, payment workflow, wallet connection, or page-level phishing indicators. However, this benign presentation is materially outweighed by multiple external malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist status reported by two external sources. No conflicting legal-entity names or explicit brand impersonation were observed, but the reputation contradiction is sufficient to make sensitive interaction inappropriate. The site's apparent business content therefore cannot be treated as reliable evidence that the underlying operator is safe or independently verified.
- The homepage describes Aureum Construction Services as a construction and surveying provider serving Spruce Grove, Alberta, with industrial, land-development, underground-utility, drone-surveying, and machine-control services.
- External reputation telemetry recorded 8 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection, with the domain also present on an external blacklist.
- The domain was registered on 2019-02-15 and is 7.52 years old.
- Historical records contain 43 archive snapshots spanning 2021–2026, covering 6 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site provides business-service descriptions, an Alberta location, team-experience claims, and contact details, but it does not present a licensing authority, license number, or registration disclosure. This is a material verification gap for a prospective commercial engagement, particularly where surveying services may involve professional or project-specific qualifications. The available evidence does not independently verify the real-world operator identity. A valid transport certificate supports encrypted transmission, but it does not establish legal status, professional authorization, or organizational legitimacy.
- The homepage and services content identify industrial and commercial survey, land-development survey, underground-utility survey, unmanned aerial survey and mapping, and machine-control services.
- The site provides a Spruce Grove, Alberta location and a telephone contact for business engagement.
- Hosting is on AS36666, GTCOMM - GloboTech Communications, CA.
- TLS uses issuer YR2 with DV validation and is valid to 2026-10-16.
What to Verify Next
Before any contract, site visit, transfer of funds, or exchange of project information, the proposed counterparty should be independently matched to applicable Alberta corporate and professional records, with any required surveying authorization confirmed through the relevant regulator. The business address, telephone channel, insurance, references, and contract signatory should be validated through an independent offline route rather than relying solely on the website. Any sensitive account or payment interaction should be withheld until the external reputation contradiction has been resolved by the responsible security or procurement function.
- The site describes a paid B2B construction and surveying model rather than an online financial-service workflow.
- The contact page and homepage provide the stated Alberta location and telephone channel for independent confirmation.
- No login form, sensitive form, external password form, wallet-provider connection, or wallet-drainer activity was detected during technical interaction testing.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk with a clear sensitive-interaction concern. The website’s professional local-business presentation is not sufficient to overcome the confirmed external reputation contradiction, and the operator’s real-world identity remains unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single apparent origin hosted by GTCOMM - GloboTech Communications, with no detected CDN or WAF layer. This provides no additional edge-protection or intermediary-reputation benefit, although the infrastructure itself does not show a confirmed malicious hosting pattern in the supplied evidence.
Closing Assessment
Treat the website as informational only until the counterparty, applicable authorizations, and external reputation issue have been independently resolved; credentials, confidential project data, and financial commitments should not be submitted through the site.
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 - The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN - Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE
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 | 25% |
- 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 aureumcs.ca.
- The request stayed on aureumcs.ca. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Go Daddy Domains Canada, Inc. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by mywhc.ca, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-02-15. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-03-19. Clear
- It is hosted on GTCOMM, from a server in CA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Go Daddy Domains Canada, Inc |
|---|---|
| Hosting | GTCOMM - GloboTech Communications, CA |
| Country | CA |
| Server IP | 67.43.226.109 |
| Name servers | ns1.cloud92718.mywhc.ca, ns2.cloud92718.mywhc.ca |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-16 |
| Domain age | 7.52 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-02-15 |
| Archive first seen | 2021-03-19 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 8 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about aureumcs.ca 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.