Verdict
duct-master.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 | Local Egyptian HVAC manufacturing/supply company site (Duct Master) describing products, services, contact info, and company background. No payment or account flows present on the captured page. |
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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 | 20 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 1 report; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 10 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2016Public history exists | 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 2016.
- 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.
The website presents itself as Duct Master, an Egyptian HVAC manufacturing and supply company serving industrial and commercial customers with ductwork, air outlets, air filters, cable trays, project services, and consultation arranged through published contact channels rather than an on-site payment or account system.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site content is consistent with a small-to-medium HVAC business: the homepage describes galvanized, black steel, stainless steel, round and spiral ductwork, air diffusers, grilles, dampers, filters, and cable-tray products, while the site provides an address in Giza, a telephone number, project and certification pages, and links to social platforms. It does not present a login form, credential-collection flow, investment offer, cryptocurrency feature, or on-site payment mechanism. However, this otherwise ordinary presentation is materially contradicted by confirmed blacklist detections and multiple malicious classifications from external reputation systems. The single abuse report associated with the hosting IP is specifically attributed to shared provider infrastructure and carries zero confidence, so it is not treated as evidence that the site itself caused the report; the blacklist and malicious detections remain the decisive concern. No distinct legal-entity conflict or direct brand-impersonation finding is established in the supplied page content.
- External reputation assessment recorded the domain as blacklisted, with 20 malicious and 2 suspicious detections among 27 effective evaluations; Fortinet and Sophos were among the flagged vendors.
- The homepage contains 3,640 characters of business content, no login form, no sensitive form, and no detected phishing or wallet-connection behavior.
- Domain registration records show registration on 2016-06-27 and an age of 10.24 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The About page states that Duct Master was established in 2010 in 6th October City, Giza, and the site provides product, project, certification, and contact sections. These claims support an apparent operating profile but do not independently verify the real-world operator. The captured material does not establish a license, registration number, or regulator-issued authorization, and the applicable licensing position is therefore unclear. This is a regulatory-transparency matter rather than, on its own, proof of fraud. No matching broker signal was identified in the supplied third-party context. The site uses transport encryption, but the certificate is domain-validated rather than an organizational identity assertion.
- The About page states establishment in 2010 and identifies 6th October City, industrial area, Giza, Egypt.
- The site navigation exposes About Us, Our Projects, Certifications, and Contact pages, but the supplied capture does not show a license number or regulator identification.
- The site is served on AS36454 by WHG-DAL - WHG Hosting Services Ltd, GB.
- The transport certificate is issued by YR1, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-12-07.
What to Verify Next
Before any commercial engagement, independently confirm the company’s legal existence, operating address, and authority to manufacture or supply the advertised products through the relevant Egyptian corporate and sector authorities. Certification documents presented through the Certifications page should be checked with the named issuing bodies, and the published telephone and social channels should be validated through an independently sourced business record. Given the external reputation conflict, any prospective procurement, file exchange, or technical communication should also be preceded by a current security review and a written explanation of the blacklist status.
- The About page supplies the claimed establishment date and Giza location for independent corporate verification.
- The Certifications page is identified in the site navigation but its underlying certification details are not present in the supplied capture.
- The Contact page and homepage provide the channels that should be matched against independently obtained business records.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk. Although the website’s visible content has a coherent commercial purpose and lacks a sensitive interaction interface, the confirmed external threat and blacklist contradictions prevent the site from being treated as a trustworthy endpoint for sensitive engagement.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to one likely origin address and no CDN was detected. Hosting is provided by WHG-DAL - WHG Hosting Services Ltd in Great Britain on AS36454; this infrastructure offers no independent legitimacy assurance, and the available protective-infrastructure signal does not offset the external reputation concern.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users should limit activity to non-sensitive observation until the operator, certifications, commercial standing, and current security status have been independently validated.
Written analysis generated 2026-09-22 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
- 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 - The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN
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
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 1 report on hosting IP 192.250.227.153 (WHG Hosting Services Ltd, Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 39% |
- Trusted social count=3
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 duct-master.com.
- The request stayed on duct-master.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by supercp.com, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-06-27. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2016-07-01. Clear
- It is hosted on WHG-DAL, from a server in GB. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | WHG-DAL - WHG Hosting Services Ltd, GB |
| Country | GB |
| Server IP | 192.250.227.153 |
| Name servers | NS1.SUPERCP.COM, NS2.SUPERCP.COM, NS3.SUPERCP.COM, NS4.SUPERCP.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-07 |
| Domain age | 10.24 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-06-27 |
| Archive first seen | 2016-07-01 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 20 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 1 report | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about duct-master.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.