Verdict
bhamdemo.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 | An index page listing files and directories (PDFs, images, vCard files). No login, payment, or interactive features detected. |
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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 | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 14 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2018Public history exists | 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 2018.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This website is a static directory index that exposes downloadable PDFs, images, video, and vCard contact files, with no visible login, payment flow, or interactive service; its apparent purpose is personal or organizational file hosting.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site presents a technically simple file directory rather than an overt financial or credential-collection service, and the captured page showed no brand impersonation, login form, payment mechanism, or conflicting legal identity. However, this benign surface is outweighed by a material external contradiction: the domain is confirmed as blacklisted, with multiple malicious detections and a further suspicious detection recorded by external threat-intelligence sources. The combination supports a critical risk posture for sensitive interaction, even though the page itself does not display conventional phishing mechanics.
- External intelligence recorded 11 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection for the domain; the domain was also identified on an external blacklist.
- Domain registration is recorded as 2013-01-24, with an age of 13.58 years; archive coverage spans 2018-08-06 through 2025-03-29, representing 8 years tracked with sparse coverage.
- The homepage is titled “Index of /” and exposes files and directories rather than presenting a conventional branded service or account portal.
Regulatory Verification Notes
No legal, corporate, licensing, or regulatory disclosure is visible on the captured directory page, and the operator’s real-world identity remains unverified. Because the site does not present a regulated financial service or an identifiable commercial offering, the available material does not establish that a licensing regime applies; nevertheless, the absence of an operator identity and formal terms is a substantive verification gap for any proposed business engagement. The domain’s registration through Internet Domain Service BS Corp. is an administrative fact and does not independently establish ownership or legitimacy.
- The captured homepage contains only a directory listing and no visible company name, legal notice, terms, license number, or regulator reference.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YR2, valid until 2026-10-26.
- No matching broker record was identified in the available third-party broker-reputation context; this is contextual only and is not a licensing determination.
What to Verify Next
Before any interaction beyond passive inspection, an enterprise should obtain the operator’s legal name through an independent channel and confirm whether the files and domain are authorized for the stated organizational purpose. Any claimed regulated activity should be checked directly against the relevant official registry, while downloaded documents and contact files should be scanned and handled in an isolated environment. Official contact channels should be confirmed through an independently sourced route rather than relying solely on information presented by the site.
- The homepage exposes PDFs, images, video, and vCard files through an open directory structure, creating a need to validate file provenance before download or execution.
- The captured page contains no login, payment, password, or external submission form through which operator identity or service terms could be confirmed.
Summary Verdict
The website should be treated as critically untrusted for sensitive interaction. The deterministic assessment is driven by confirmed external threat and blacklist contradictions, while the operator identity remains unverified; the absence of malicious mechanics on the captured page does not resolve that external risk.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly on HOSTWINDS – Hostwinds LLC. in the United States, using AS54290, with no CDN or WAF identified and two likely origin addresses exposed. This provides limited infrastructure mitigation and should not be interpreted as evidence of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Restrict activity to passive observation, and do not use the site for account access, credential submission, financial activity, or unisolated file handling unless independent organizational and security validation produces a clear authorization basis.
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 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 - 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 bhamdemo.com.
- The request stayed on bhamdemo.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Internet Domain Service BS Corp.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by hostwindsdns.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-01-24. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2018-08-06. Clear
- It is hosted on HOSTWINDS, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Internet Domain Service BS Corp. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | HOSTWINDS - Hostwinds LLC., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2607:5500:3000:116a::2 |
| Name servers | DALNS139.HOSTWINDSDNS.COM, DALNS140.HOSTWINDSDNS.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-26 |
| Domain age | 13.58 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-01-24 |
| Archive first seen | 2018-08-06 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 11 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about bhamdemo.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.