Verdict
backup-base.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 | A WordPress sample blog page (Japanese/English) with the default "Hello world!" starter post and theme metadata; no forms or monetization visible. |
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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 | 17 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Listed as unsafeGoogle | Risk |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 1.1 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2025Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: 1 to 3 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2025.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet, Google, Kaspersky, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
backup-base.com presents as a minimally configured Japanese/English WordPress blog, showing a default “Hello world!” starter post, sample navigation, and the Twenty Twenty-Five theme rather than a developed commercial service or clearly defined business operation.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content is a benign-looking sample blog with no apparent login, payment, wallet, or sensitive-data collection mechanism; however, this does not offset the confirmed blacklist status and malicious reputation detections associated with the domain. External telemetry recorded malicious classifications from multiple major security providers, including a social-engineering threat classification, creating a material risk for sensitive interaction even though no brand impersonation or conflicting legal-entity names were observed on the captured page. The combination of a thin, generic site and strong external threat detections warrants treating the domain as unsuitable for authentication, credential submission, or financial activity.
- The homepage contains the default WordPress “Hello world!” post, Japanese-language sample text, and Twenty Twenty-Five theme metadata, with no substantive business identity.
- External reputation telemetry recorded 17 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection across 23 evaluated results.
- The domain was recorded as blacklisted by three independent external reputation sources, including a malicious Safe Browsing result.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The captured site does not provide a clear operator identity, legal entity, licensing statement, or registration number. Its visible structure is consistent with an unfinished personal or small blog, not an identified regulated financial service, and the real-world operator remains unverified. The absence of a financial-service claim limits the regulatory conclusion: the disclosure gap is a verification issue, while the separate external blacklist findings drive the security concern. No broker-dataset match was identified, but that contextual result is not evidence of licensing or authorization.
- The homepage title is “welcome to my blog” and the visible content consists of a default sample post rather than legal, corporate, or regulated-service disclosures.
- The domain was registered on 2025-07-02 and is approximately 1.14 years old; the registrar is XServer, Inc.
- The site is hosted on AS131965, XSERVER - Xserver Inc., JP.
- The transport certificate is DV, issued by YR2, and valid until 2026-09-25.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, an institution should independently establish the operator’s legal identity and confirm any claimed authorization with the relevant jurisdictional registry. Security teams should also validate the domain against current blocklists and endpoint-protection controls, preserve the captured page and reputation results for case records, and confirm official contact channels through an independently sourced route. Pending those checks, activity should be limited to passive observation and should not include authentication, credential entry, payment authorization, or financial transfers.
- The homepage contains no login form, sensitive form, hidden form, or untrusted form destination.
- Behavioral testing recorded 2 successful runs with 0 external XHR/fetch activity and no wallet-provider or wallet-drainer activity.
- The page returned HTTP 200 consistently during the observed runs, but this stability does not invalidate the external threat detections.
Summary Verdict
The website has a critical trust posture and should not be treated as a trusted destination for sensitive interaction. Its generic, undeveloped presentation is materially outweighed by confirmed external blacklist and malicious-reputation findings, while operator identity remains unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to XSERVER infrastructure without a detected CDN or WAF layer, so the hosting arrangement provides limited protective mitigation against the domain’s established reputation risk. The valid DV certificate supports encrypted transport only and does not establish operator legitimacy.
- Infrastructure resolution identified one unique IP, 85.131.209.78, with one likely origin address and no edge IPs.
- Hosting is on AS131965, XSERVER - Xserver Inc., JP, in Japan.
- The TLS certificate is issued by YR2 at DV validation level and expires on 2026-09-25.
Closing Assessment
Sensitive interaction should be withheld unless independent identity, authorization, and security validation produce a documented basis for acceptance; otherwise, the domain should remain restricted to passive review only.
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
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 backup-base.com.
- The request stayed on backup-base.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under XServer, Inc.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by xserver.jp, across 5 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-07-02. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2025-07-10. Clear
- It is hosted on XSERVER, from a server in JP. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | XServer, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | XSERVER - Xserver Inc., JP |
| Country | JP |
| Server IP | 85.131.209.78 |
| Name servers | NS1.XSERVER.JP, NS2.XSERVER.JP, NS3.XSERVER.JP, NS4.XSERVER.JP, NS5.XSERVER.JP |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-25 |
| Domain age | 1.14 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-07-02 |
| Archive first seen | 2025-07-10 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 17 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 1 match |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about backup-base.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.