Verdict
aurorabyglenwood.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 | Website for Aurora serviced-apartment chain in Ho Chi Minh City offering properties, booking options, special offers and contact/gallery information. Content focuses on rentals, discounts for longer stays, and property descriptions. |
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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 | 10 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2018Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | 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 2018.
- 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.
This website presents itself as Aurora, a serviced-apartment chain in Ho Chi Minh City offering short- and long-term accommodation, property information, booking searches, special offers, guest testimonials, galleries, and contact facilities; its apparent business model is to generate revenue from room reservations, longer-stay rentals, and related hospitality services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No page-level evidence of credential harvesting, brand impersonation, or an identity inconsistency was observed. The homepage and booking interface present a conventional hospitality proposition, and the available form is a booking-search form rather than a login or password-collection mechanism. However, this benign presentation is materially outweighed by external security detections: the domain is blacklisted by external sources, including a malicious classification recorded by multiple security providers. This is a direct contradiction to the site's otherwise ordinary hospitality presentation and creates a high-risk basis for sensitive interactions. The site's apparent business model does not by itself establish that the operator or booking counterparty is genuine.
- The homepage describes Aurora serviced apartments, four Ho Chi Minh City properties, room options, longer-stay accommodation, offers, and booking facilities.
- External security telemetry recorded 13 malicious detections from 18 evaluated results and a confirmed blacklist status.
- The domain registration record shows creation on 2016-07-09, an age of 10.12 years, and registrar MAT BAO CORPORATION.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site identifies “An Duong Thao Dien Properties” as the developer of Aurora and states that the group has 20 years of serviced-apartment development and management experience in Vietnam. That on-site statement is not independently verified by the available evidence, and the operator's real-world identity remains unverified. No license, registration number, or licensing authority is claimed in the supplied site analysis; for an accommodation business this is a transparency and verification gap rather than, on its own, proof of wrongdoing. The legal and governance disclosures should therefore be treated as insufficient for establishing the contracting entity, responsibility for bookings, or applicable consumer protections.
- The homepage attributes Aurora's development to An Duong Thao Dien Properties and describes the group as having 20 years of relevant experience.
- No license authority or license number is claimed in the site's business-model disclosures.
- The site's transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YR1, valid to 2026-10-25T16:12:36+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any reservation, deposit, or personal-data submission, an independent channel should confirm that the named property operator actually controls the listed buildings and accepts bookings through this domain. Any applicable Vietnamese business or accommodation registration should be checked against the relevant official registry, and the booking terms should be reviewed for cancellation, refund, deposit, and dispute provisions. Payment should be limited to a method offering documented chargeback or purchaser protection, and account credentials should not be reused.
- The homepage identifies the operator through an on-site corporate statement rather than an independently verified identity record.
- The booking interface was observed as a single booking-search form, with no login form or sensitive form detected.
- The available analysis records no verified licensing authority or registration number.
Summary Verdict
The website presents a credible-looking hospitality surface but has a critical trust posture because authoritative external threat intelligence identifies a confirmed blacklist contradiction. The operator identity is not independently verified, so the site's appearance and business claims cannot support confidence in sensitive engagement.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to hosting infrastructure operated by SUPERDATA-AS-VN in Vietnam, with no trusted CDN or WAF identified and one likely origin address exposed. This provides limited infrastructure-based mitigation and should not be interpreted as evidence of legitimacy.
- Served from AS45544 (SUPERDATA-AS-VN - SUPERDATA-VN, VN), registered through APNIC, in Vietnam.
- Infrastructure analysis identified 1 unique IP, 0 edge IPs, and 1 likely origin IP; no CDN was detected.
Closing Assessment
Interaction should remain limited to non-sensitive viewing until the operator, booking counterparty, and payment protections have been independently confirmed 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 |
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| 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 aurorabyglenwood.com.
- The request stayed on aurorabyglenwood.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under MAT BAO CORPORATION. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by matbao.vn, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2029-07-09. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2018-08-05. Clear
- It is hosted on SUPERDATA-AS-VN, from a server in VN. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | MAT BAO CORPORATION |
|---|---|
| Hosting | SUPERDATA-AS-VN - SUPERDATA-VN, VN |
| Country | VN |
| Server IP | 103.77.162.8 |
| Name servers | NS1.MATBAO.VN, NS2.MATBAO.VN |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-25 |
| Domain age | 10.12 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2029-07-09 |
| Archive first seen | 2018-08-05 |
| 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 aurorabyglenwood.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.