Verdict
cheesion.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 | Cheesion Precision Instruments product/catalog site presenting spectrometers and thermal analysis equipment with contact details and an inquiry form; appears to be a straightforward B2B equipment vendor. |
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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 | 14 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 4.2 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2025Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Encryption Everywhere DV TLS CA - G2 | 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 2025.
- 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.
Cheesion Precision Instruments is a corporate B2B product catalogue presenting laboratory and industrial measurement equipment, with an apparent business model based on equipment sales, customization, technical support, and customer inquiries.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content is consistent with a conventional industrial-equipment catalogue: it contains substantive product descriptions, a contact workflow, no login form, and no obvious page-level fraud indicators. However, this benign presentation is materially outweighed by confirmed external malicious detections and blacklist listings, including corroboration from multiple security vendors. No conflicting legal identities or explicit brand impersonation were observed, but the external reputation evidence creates a direct risk for sensitive interaction with the site.
- The homepage presents “Cheesion Precision Instruments” as a laboratory-equipment company and contains product information, contact details, and an inquiry form.
- External reputation telemetry recorded 14 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection among 20 evaluated results; Kaspersky and Sophos were among the vendors reporting threats.
- The domain is recorded on external blacklist sources; a separate Google Safe Browsing result was not malicious.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site describes itself as a manufacturer and seller of handheld XRF spectrometers, XRF soil analysers, differential scanning calorimeters, thermogravimetric analysers, and related measurement equipment. It offers customization and technical support through inquiries, but the examined content contains no claimed licence, licensing authority, or licence number. The operating entity remains unverified, and the available governance and ownership disclosures are unclear. A clean match was not identified in the supplied broker-reputation dataset; that absence is contextual only and does not establish legal status or regulatory standing.
- The homepage and product catalogue describe XRF, DSC, and TGA equipment for scientific, industrial, environmental, and materials-testing applications.
- The examined business and contact presentation contains no licence claim or licence number.
- Domain registration records show registration on 2022-05-30 and an age of approximately 4.22 years; the registrar is Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn).
- Hosting telemetry identifies AS45102, ALIBABA-CN-NET — Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd., CN; the site’s TLS certificate is DV, issued by Encryption Everywhere DV TLS CA - G2, and valid until 2027-01-26.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, an independent party should confirm the company’s legal name, physical operating details, and authority to sell the stated equipment through official corporate or trade registries. Any purchase should use a payment method with contractual buyer protection, and product quotations, warranty terms, export arrangements, and returns should be validated through independently sourced contact channels rather than relying solely on information presented on the site. Credentials, account creation, and financial transfers should remain excluded unless the external reputation issue is resolved and the operator is independently authenticated.
- The site’s principal interaction mechanism is a contact or inquiry form rather than a documented transactional account system.
- The available identity-verification status is unverified.
- The site’s business model is presented as equipment sales supported by customization and technical assistance, making independent supplier and payment verification relevant before procurement.
Summary Verdict
The website has a critical trust posture for sensitive interaction. Its credible-looking catalogue content does not overcome the confirmed external threat and blacklist evidence, and the available material does not independently establish the real-world operator. The site should therefore be treated as unsuitable for login, credential submission, financial activity, or reliance on unverified commercial claims.
Infrastructure Integrity
No trusted CDN or WAF layer is evidenced in the supplied infrastructure facts, and infrastructure is not providing a demonstrated mitigating control against the external reputation risk. The hosting environment should consequently be regarded as a neutral technical delivery mechanism rather than an assurance of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users should refrain from sensitive or financial interaction and should proceed only after independent authentication of the operator and resolution of the external security detections.
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, 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 page sent data to a destination TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_POSTS - 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 cheesion.com.
- The request stayed on cheesion.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn). Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by hichina.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-05-30. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2025-07-10. Clear
- It is hosted on ALIBABA-CN-NET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) |
|---|---|
| Hosting | ALIBABA-CN-NET - Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd., CN |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 47.251.14.77 |
| Name servers | DNS27.HICHINA.COM, DNS28.HICHINA.COM |
| SSL issuer | Encryption Everywhere DV TLS CA - G2 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-01-26 |
| Domain age | 4.22 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-05-30 |
| Archive first seen | 2025-07-10 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 14 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about cheesion.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.