Verdict
dragondesign.com.au 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 | Very small landing/portfolio page titled 'Dragon Design' with no links, forms, social profiles, or metadata beyond the title. No financial or sensitive interactions 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 | 8 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 25 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2001205 snapshots | 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 2001.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
Dragon Design is a minimal portfolio or landing website presenting only the “Dragon Design” identity, apparently intended to showcase design or branding services rather than provide an online transaction platform; the available page contains no visible purchasing, login, or sensitive-data workflow.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site presents no visible brand impersonation, phishing form, or conflicting legal identity, and its limited page behavior showed no external submissions, hidden forms, wallet activity, or credential collection. However, this benign surface is outweighed by confirmed external threat detections and a confirmed blacklist status, including multiple malicious classifications. The combination creates a material risk that the domain, its hosting, or associated infrastructure may be unsafe for sensitive interaction even though the captured homepage itself is technically simple. No identity contradiction was observed.
- The homepage contains only the title “Dragon Design,” with no login form, password field, payment mechanism, or sensitive form.
- Behavioral inspection recorded 0 external XHR/fetch requests, 0 external POST requests, 0 hidden forms, and 0 wallet-connection runs across 2 successful runs.
- External reputation assessment recorded 8 malicious detections from 13 effective evaluations and a confirmed blacklist hit from two sources.
- Domain registration continuity is dated to 2001, with an authoritative age of 25.39 years; archival records contain 205 snapshots spanning 2001–2026.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The apparent design-services purpose does not itself imply a regulated financial activity. Nevertheless, the available homepage does not identify a legal entity, licensing authority, registration number, or independently verifiable business contact, so the operator’s real-world identity remains unverified. The registration record names Synergy Wholesale Accreditations Pty Ltd as registrar and Karen Peta Hargreave as the recorded owner; those records do not, by themselves, establish that the current page is operated by that person or entity. A separate broker-reputation dataset did not produce a match, but that is contextual only and does not counter the confirmed external threat findings.
- The homepage provides no legal, licensing, or corporate-registration disclosure and contains no links to supporting identity pages.
- The domain is registered through Synergy Wholesale Accreditations Pty Ltd.
- The site is served from AS45638, SYNERGYWHOLESALE-AP – Synergy Wholesale Pty Ltd, Australia.
- Transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YR1, valid until 2026-11-04.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, an organization should independently confirm the intended operator through an offline or otherwise trusted channel, establish that the domain is the correct official address for the claimed designer or business, and obtain documentary confirmation of the contracting party before exchanging credentials, payment details, or confidential files. Any proposed engagement should also use payment and contractual controls that preserve dispute and recovery options.
- The homepage has no contact form, external links, social profiles, or verifiable contact details.
- The site’s stated business model is inferred from a single landing page rather than supported by terms, service documentation, or an identified contracting entity.
- The captured page has no transaction flow and no pricing or engagement terms.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk. The available evidence supports read-only observation of the public page only; it does not support login, credential submission, financial activity, or the exchange of sensitive information. The site’s simple presentation does not mitigate the confirmed external reputation contradictions.
Infrastructure Integrity
The domain resolves directly to infrastructure associated with Synergy Wholesale in Australia, with no CDN or WAF detected and two likely origin addresses identified. This provides limited protective separation between the website and its hosting environment; infrastructure characteristics should be treated as technical context, not evidence of legitimacy.
- No CDN was detected.
- DNS resolution identified 2 unique IP addresses, both classified as likely origin addresses.
- The hosting network is registered in Australia through APNIC.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate enterprise disposition is to block or isolate sensitive interaction with the domain and require independent operator validation before any business engagement, credential use, payment, or confidential-data exchange.
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 dragondesign.com.au.
- The request stayed on dragondesign.com.au. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Synergy Wholesale Accreditations Pty Ltd. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by net.au, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2001-04-02. Clear
- It is hosted on SYNERGYWHOLESALE-AP, from a server in AU. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Synergy Wholesale Accreditations Pty Ltd |
|---|---|
| Hosting | SYNERGYWHOLESALE-AP - SYNERGY WHOLESALE PTY LTD, AU |
| Country | AU |
| Server IP | 2400:b800:6::4 |
| Name servers | ns1.syd4.hostingplatform.net.au, ns2.syd4.hostingplatform.net.au |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-04 |
| Domain age | 25.39 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2001-04-02 |
| Archive snapshots | 205 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 8 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about dragondesign.com.au 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.