Verdict
dressmaster.lk 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 | Dress Master (PVT) LTD ecommerce homepage listing clothing categories and products with contact details and a subscribe option. Appears to be a regional retail storefront (Negombo) with phone numbers and email; no signs of credential harvesting or financial investment offerings in the provided HTML. |
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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 | 4 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 2012Public 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 2012.
- 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.
The website is a regional online clothing storefront presenting wedding suits, home-coming outfits, groomswear, waistcoats, leather jackets, and related accessories for direct retail purchases and contact-based orders.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content presents a conventional clothing retailer and contains no observed login form, credential-harvesting mechanism, investment offering, cryptocurrency feature, or explicit brand-impersonation indicator. However, this benign page presentation is outweighed by a confirmed blacklist status and multiple external malicious and suspicious detections, including a Tier-1 security-vendor detection. These are direct reputation contradictions and create a material risk that the site or its infrastructure could expose visitors to harmful activity despite its ordinary retail appearance. No identity contradiction or page-level impersonation was observed, but the operator’s real-world identity remains unverified.
- The homepage lists clothing products and contact-based retail ordering, with no sensitive form or login function observed.
- External reputation checks recorded 4 malicious and 2 suspicious detections among 11 effective detections, with Fortinet identified as a flagged vendor.
- The domain is recorded as blacklisted by 2 external sources.
- Domain age is recorded as 14.08350444900753 years; the historical record reports 0 snapshots, with first seen 2012-07-22 and last seen 2026-02-11 across 15 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage identifies the business as “Dress Master (PVT) LTD” and provides a physical address in Negombo together with multiple telephone numbers and a company-domain email address. This provides some commercial contact substance, but the available material does not independently verify the operator’s legal identity, licensing status, or regulatory standing; no license claim or license number is presented. The site’s retail model does not itself imply a financial-services license, but merchant identity, consumer-protection obligations, payment handling, and applicable local registration remain unresolved. The absence of a matching third-party broker record is only contextual and does not establish legitimacy.
- The homepage states “Dress Master (PVT) LTD,” gives an address at 301/A, St. Joseph Street, Telwatta Junction, Negombo, and lists mobile, telephone, and head-office contact numbers.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a valid DV TLS certificate issued by YR2, valid through 2026-10-31.
- Hosting is recorded on AS5087, operated by LANKA-COM – Lanka Communication Services, LK.
- No license authority or license number is claimed in the supplied site content.
What to Verify Next
Before any transaction, an independent check should confirm that the named retail business, physical address, and telephone numbers correspond to a real operating merchant. Any applicable company-registration or consumer-trading status should be checked with the relevant Sri Lankan authority, and payment should be limited to methods offering transaction dispute rights. Return, refund, delivery, and privacy terms should be obtained and assessed before payment, while official contact channels should be confirmed through an independent route rather than relying solely on the website.
- The homepage provides a physical address and several telephone numbers that can be checked independently.
- The supplied page content contains product listings and a newsletter/contact form but does not provide visible licensing or detailed transaction-protection disclosures.
- The external reputation contradiction requires validation beyond the site’s own retail presentation.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk. Although the site appears to function as a conventional clothing storefront, confirmed external threat and blacklist signals prevent the available evidence from supporting safe sensitive interaction or a verified legitimacy conclusion.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a likely origin rather than through a detected CDN or WAF edge, leaving no observed protective distribution layer to mitigate infrastructure exposure. The hosting environment and valid transport encryption provide technical connectivity and confidentiality in transit, but they do not counteract the external reputation findings.
- DNS resolution identifies 1 unique IP, with 0 edge IPs and 1 likely origin IP.
- No CDN was detected.
- The resolved infrastructure is associated with Sri Lanka and the APNIC registry.
Closing Assessment
Interaction should remain limited to non-sensitive, read-only viewing; credentials, account creation, personal-data submission, and payment activity should not proceed unless independent merchant and transaction checks materially resolve the identified concerns.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-22 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, external reputation.
01 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 dressmaster.lk.
- The request stayed on dressmaster.lk. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2012-07-22. Clear
- It is hosted on LANKA-COM, from a server in LK. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
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| Hosting | LANKA-COM - Lanka Communication Services, LK |
| Country | LK |
| Server IP | 203.143.21.140 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-31 |
| Domain age | 14.08 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2012-07-22 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 4 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about dressmaster.lk 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.