Verdict
eighc.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 | Post-event page for EIGHC 2025 announcing that the event has concluded, thanking participants, and pointing to a gallery and the EGHS Society website. Contains subscribe and email contact prompts but no visible forms or payment requests. |
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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 | 6 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 8.7 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2018Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | 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 2018.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Kaspersky flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
EIGHC 2025 is a post-event conference website presenting a conclusion notice, acknowledgements to participants, speakers, sponsors, and volunteers, a photo gallery, subscription prompts, an email contact option, and a reference to the EGHS Society website. Its apparent purpose is to support an annual professional gastroenterology conference rather than to provide an investment, trading, or payment platform.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No conflicting legal identities or page-level brand-impersonation indicators were observed. However, the domain is subject to a confirmed blacklist hit and multiple external malicious detections, creating a material contradiction that outweighs the otherwise benign presentation of the conference page. The website should therefore be treated as unsuitable for sensitive interactions, even though its visible content does not request credentials, payments, or investment activity.
- The conference page presents a post-event notice, acknowledgements, and a gallery, with no visible payment request or sensitive-input form.
- External reputation telemetry recorded 6 malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist hit.
- The domain was registered on 2017-12-25 and is approximately 8.65 years old; historical records show 67 snapshots from 2018-05-03 through 2025-06-30, covering 8 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The captured conference content refers to the EGHS Society but does not independently establish the legal identity or authority of the operator; identity verification remains unverified. No license, registration number, or regulatory authorization is presented in the available conference content. This is a disclosure and verification gap rather than, by itself, proof of misconduct. The available technical controls show ordinary encrypted transport and conventional hosting, but neither establishes legal status or operator identity.
- The conference page identifies “EIGHC 2025” and directs visitors to the EGHS Society website, without presenting a separately verified legal-entity disclosure.
- No license number or regulatory registration is visible in the captured conference content.
- Hosting resolves to AS46606, Unified Layer, US.
- The TLS certificate is issued by YR1 at DV validation level and is valid to 2026-10-06.
What to Verify Next
Before any registration, payment, account creation, or submission of personal information, independently confirm that the conference organizer and its relationship with the EGHS Society are genuine through an institutionally sourced channel rather than relying solely on the website. Any future registration or payment process should be reached through independently confirmed organizer communications and checked for clear beneficiary details, protected payment options, and consistent terms. If the engagement is presented as regulated professional activity, the relevant organizer or entity should also be checked against the applicable official registry.
- The available page is a completed-event summary rather than an active registration or transaction page.
- The captured page contains no login form, hidden sensitive form, or visible payment workflow.
- Behavioral inspection recorded 0 wallet-connect runs, 0 wallet-sensitive runs, and 0 wallet-drainer runs.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk. The site’s conference-oriented content is not inherently abusive, but the confirmed external reputation contradiction prevents the website from being endorsed for sensitive interaction or treated as an independently established organizational identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is resolved to two likely origin addresses, with no CDN detected and no edge IPs identified. This means the hosting path provides limited additional protective separation; infrastructure characteristics should be regarded as technical context, not evidence of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Passive viewing is the only proportionate use supported by the assessment; account, credential, payment, and other sensitive activity should be withheld unless independently validated through trusted organizational channels.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-19 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 registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN - 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
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 | 25% |
- 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 eighc.com.
- The request stayed on eighc.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by domaincontrol.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-12-25. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2018-05-03. Clear
- It is hosted on UNIFIEDLAYER-AS-1, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
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| Hosting | UNIFIEDLAYER-AS-1 - Unified Layer, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 162.214.96.162 |
| Name servers | NS71.DOMAINCONTROL.COM, NS72.DOMAINCONTROL.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-06 |
| Domain age | 8.65 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-12-25 |
| Archive first seen | 2018-05-03 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 6 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about eighc.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.