Verdict
azumacolor.jp is low-trust and potentially risky.
Several risk patterns were present. Do not send money or personal details until you have verified this business another way.
| What this site appears to be | Azuma Color Co., Ltd. — a long-standing cosmetics OEM manufacturer in Saitama, Japan. The site describes product lineup (face masks, biocellulose masks, gel packs), company information, manufacturing capabilities, news and contact details including phone and email. No obvious financial solicitation or credential-harvesting indicators present. |
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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 | 2 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 16 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
Overview
This website presents Azuma Color Co., Ltd. as a Japan-based cosmetics contract manufacturer offering OEM development, prototyping, packaging, and trial products, with product lines including face masks, biocellulose masks, partial sheet packs, oil-gel packs, and lip masks.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No brand impersonation, phishing, or conflicting legal identity was identified in the reviewed page content, and the site does not present obvious financial solicitation or credential-harvesting content. Nevertheless, the domain is recorded as blacklisted by two external reputation sources, including a result with two malicious detections and one suspicious detection. Interactive testing also detected hidden forms in both observed runs, although no password-bearing external form, wallet connection, clipboard manipulation, or confirmed cloaking was detected. These findings create a material security concern for sensitive interactions despite the site's otherwise coherent corporate presentation.
- External reputation assessment recorded 2 malicious detections, 1 suspicious detection, and an external blacklist hit for the domain.
- The homepage interaction produced 2 hidden forms in each of 2 successful runs; 0 password-external forms were observed.
- The domain was registered on 2010-06-02 and is 16.23 years old.
- Archive records span 2018-08-10 through 2026-05-12, covering 9 years with sparse archival coverage.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The Company Profile and corporate pages present a consistent cosmetics-manufacturing identity for Azuma Color Co., Ltd., but independent real-world operator identity is only likely rather than verified. No license or registration number is claimed on the reviewed pages; for an OEM cosmetics manufacturer, this is a regulatory and commercial verification gap rather than standalone evidence of fraud. The site's transport security and hosting arrangements are technically valid, but they do not resolve the external reputation contradiction.
- The Company Profile page identifies the business as a cosmetics OEM manufacturer in Saitama, Japan.
- No license number or licensing authority is stated in the reviewed company, product, or contact pages.
- Hosted on AS131965, XSERVER - Xserver Inc., JP.
- TLS certificate issued by YR1 at DV validation level, valid to 2026-11-16.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive engagement, an independent party should confirm the company's legal existence and operating details through the relevant Japanese corporate or commercial registry, and confirm that the contact channels correspond to that independently sourced record. Contracting parties should also obtain written terms covering product specifications, payment protections, delivery obligations, liability, and applicable regulatory responsibilities before placing an order or sharing confidential business information.
- The site includes Company Profile, manufacturing capability, case-study, FAQ, and contact pages that can be compared against independently obtained corporate records.
- The contact page publishes a telephone channel and reception hours for offline confirmation.
- The site describes OEM manufacturing, prototyping, packaging, and trial-product sales, creating identifiable commercial terms for due diligence.
Summary Verdict
Overall posture is low trust with elevated risk for sensitive interaction. The website's apparent corporate identity and coherent business presentation do not overcome the confirmed external reputation contradiction, and legitimacy remains apparent rather than independently proven. Account access, credential submission, and financial engagement are not supported by the available evidence.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to a direct XSERVER - Xserver Inc. deployment in Japan on AS131965, with no detected CDN layer and one likely origin address. The valid DV TLS certificate provides transport encryption, but the infrastructure offers no independent assurance of operator legitimacy and does not offset the reputation concern.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users should restrict activity to non-sensitive review until the business identity, contact channels, contractual terms, and any applicable regulatory obligations have been independently confirmed.
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.
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 page contained a form a visitor cannot see.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_HIDDEN_FORMS
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 73/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 74% |
- Trusted social count=1
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 azumacolor.jp.
- The request stayed on azumacolor.jp. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by xserver.jp, across 5 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-06-30. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2018-08-10. Clear
- It is hosted on XSERVER, from a server in JP. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
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| Hosting | XSERVER - Xserver Inc., JP |
| Country | JP |
| Server IP | 85.131.207.158 |
| Name servers | ns1.xserver.jp, ns2.xserver.jp, ns3.xserver.jp, ns4.xserver.jp, ns5.xserver.jp |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-16 |
| Domain age | 16.23 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-06-30 |
| Archive first seen | 2018-08-10 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about azumacolor.jp 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.