Verdict
designvision.com.bd 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 | Corporate website for Design Vision Associates Ltd., an architectural and engineering consultancy founded in 1998. Describes services (architecture, interior design, project management, EPC/LSTK), showcases work, and provides contact/career information. |
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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 | Not availableNo registration record was returned | Noted |
| Web archive | Archived since 2010Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Public web-archive history exists since 2010.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
This website is the corporate and portfolio site of Design Vision Associates Ltd., presenting architectural, interior-design, project-management, EPC/LSTK, acoustic and vibration-control services, completed work, career information, and contact details for an apparent professional consultancy serving public- and private-sector projects.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site's content is internally coherent with a conventional architectural and engineering consultancy: the homepage and About section describe Design Vision Associates Ltd., its professional services, and a founding date of 1998. No brand impersonation, phishing form, or conflicting legal identity was observed in the supplied page content. However, this positive presentation is outweighed by external threat detections and a confirmed blacklist result from multiple external sources. The resulting posture is cautionary: the site may represent a genuine corporate presentation, but its domain reputation creates elevated risk for login, credential, financial, or other sensitive interaction.
- The homepage identifies Design Vision Associates Ltd. and presents a corporate/portfolio structure with Home, About Us, Services, Work, Career, and Contact sections.
- External reputation evaluation recorded 2 malicious detections, 2 suspicious detections, and a blacklist hit.
- Historical archive records span 2010-06-04 to 2025-04-08, with 16 years tracked; no suspicious repurposing or semantic category change was identified in the available historical assessment.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The About section states that the consultancy is “fully registered” and describes architectural and engineering work, but the supplied pages do not provide a licensing authority, registration number, or independently verifiable corporate record. This is a material disclosure gap for a firm presenting regulated or professionally controlled services, although it is not by itself proof of fraud. The real-world identity of the operator remains unverified, and the external reputation issue should be treated as a substantive risk signal rather than resolved by the site's professional appearance.
- The About section states that the firm was founded in 1998 and describes its architects, engineers, commissioned projects, and registration status.
- The services content describes architecture, interior design, project implementation, project management, feasibility studies, and EPC/LSTK work.
- The site is served through AS31898, identified as ORACLE-BMC-31898 - Oracle Corporation, US.
- TLS uses issuer YR1 with DV validation and is valid to 2026-11-06T21:49:41+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, an independent check should confirm that Design Vision Associates Ltd. exists in the relevant corporate and professional registries and that the claimed architectural consultancy registration is current. Contact details should be validated through an independently sourced business record or an offline channel, rather than relying solely on the website. Any proposed engagement should also be assessed under documented procurement, contract, payment-protection, and counterparty-onboarding procedures, with the external reputation detections escalated for resolution.
- The homepage contains no login form or sensitive data-entry form.
- Observed browser behavior recorded no wallet connection, wallet-sensitive action, hidden form, password-external form, or clipboard-hijacking activity.
- The site provides dedicated Contact and Career sections but no supplied evidence of an independently linked external corporate or professional registry.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated sensitive-interaction risk. The coherent consultancy presentation does not overcome the confirmed external reputation contradictions, and the operator's real-world identity is not independently verified. Passive review may be possible, but the available evidence does not support treating the site as suitable for sensitive engagement.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to a single Oracle-hosted address with no detected CDN or WAF layer, leaving the hosting environment without an identified protective edge service. The valid DV certificate supports encrypted transport, but encryption and commercial hosting are mitigating technical conditions only and do not establish legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Sensitive actions should be deferred until the independent identity, registration, and reputation checks above are completed; interim use should remain limited to passive review.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
1 finding contributed to this verdict, raised by analysis engine.
01 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat
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 designvision.com.bd.
- The request stayed on designvision.com.bd. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2010-06-04. Clear
- It is hosted on ORACLE-BMC-31898, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | ORACLE-BMC-31898 - Oracle Corporation, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 192.185.183.159 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-06 |
| Domain age | Not available (no registration date was returned) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2010-06-04 |
| 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 designvision.com.bd 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.