Verdict
ekona.cz 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 | EKONA company site offering certified domestic and municipal wastewater treatment systems, septic tanks, storage tanks and services including project documentation, permits and long-term servicing. Includes product descriptions, pricing ranges, FAQ and contact/quote form with phone and email contacts and physical address in Liberec, Czech Republic. |
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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 | 9 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 3% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 1 report; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 27 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2001Public 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 2001.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
EKONA is a Czech manufacturer and service provider presenting domestic and municipal wastewater-treatment systems, septic tanks, storage tanks, and associated project, installation, permitting, and long-term servicing capabilities for households, businesses, and municipalities.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site presents a coherent corporate and product-services profile, with no observed login form, credential-collection mechanism, hidden form, cryptocurrency feature, or detected brand-impersonation pattern. However, this benign page presentation is outweighed by confirmed blacklist activity and multiple malicious detections, creating a material risk for sensitive interaction. External reputation data recorded nine malicious detections, including a tier-one detection, while the single abuse report was attributed to shared data-centre infrastructure rather than specifically to the website; that attribution limits the report’s evidentiary scope but does not remove the broader blacklist concern. No identity contradiction or direct phishing indicator was observed in the supplied page findings.
- External reputation checks recorded 9 malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist signal; the affected subject was the website domain.
- The homepage was classified as a corporate product-and-services page with no login form, hidden form, password submission, wallet connection, or detected brand-impersonation element.
- One abuse report was associated with shared hosting infrastructure, with the report attribution applying to the provider’s IP rather than uniquely to the website.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The apparent business identity is EKONA, presented as a Czech manufacturer with a Liberec address and contact-based quotation process, but independent identity verification remains incomplete. The site states that it has been operating since 1992 and presents claims including CZWA membership, ČSN EN certification of its products, and ČKAIT authorization; these are on-site representations rather than independently established legal or regulatory findings. The pages do not provide a clearly identifiable licensing authority or license number, so the regulatory status of the relevant manufacturing, engineering, installation, and servicing activities remains a transparency and verification matter. The site’s wastewater-treatment products, septic systems, tanks, and project services should therefore not be treated as independently certified or authorized solely on the basis of the website’s claims.
- Domain registration: 2000-02-09; age 26.54 years; registrar recorded as REG-WEBGLOBE.
- Historical records contain 172 snapshots spanning 2001–2026, covering 26 tracked years.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV TLS certificate issued by YR1, valid until 2026-11-16.
- The homepage identifies EKONA, describes Czech manufacturing and servicing, and provides a physical address, telephone contact, and quotation form, but no license number or licensing authority is identified in the supplied content.
What to Verify Next
Before any purchase, deposit, contract, or transfer of personal information, an independent counterparty check should confirm that the Liberec address and telephone contact connect to the legal entity responsible for EKONA. The CZWA membership, ČSN EN certification claims, and ČKAIT authorization should be checked directly with the respective organizations or registries, and any proposed installation or service agreement should identify the contracting entity, warranty obligations, payment beneficiary, and liability terms. Contact details should be validated through an independently sourced channel rather than relying exclusively on the website.
- The contact page and quotation form provide the stated business address and telephone contact for independent comparison.
- Product and service pages contain the certification, association, authorization, permitting, and servicing claims requiring external confirmation.
- The site uses one contact-request and pricing-quote form and does not present a sensitive credential form.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical risk for sensitive interaction. Although the site’s content is coherent and commercially plausible, the confirmed external threat detections and blacklist status materially undermine confidence in using it for credentials, payments, contracts, or other consequential activity. The apparent business identity should remain treated as unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is hosted directly through IGNUM-AS—Webglobe, s.r.o., Czech Republic, on AS29134, with two likely origin addresses and no detected CDN or WAF edge layer. The valid DV TLS certificate protects transport confidentiality, but it does not establish operator legitimacy; the direct hosting arrangement provides limited mitigation against the external reputation findings.
- Hosting infrastructure: AS29134, IGNUM-AS—Webglobe, s.r.o., CZ; country CZ; registry RIPE NCC.
- Infrastructure resolution identified 2 unique IP addresses, 0 CDN edge IPs, and 2 likely origin IPs; no CDN vendor was detected.
- TLS certificate issuer: YR1; validation level DV; expiry 2026-11-16.
Closing Assessment
Sensitive interaction should be withheld unless the counterparty and relevant claims are independently validated through trusted external channels; passive review may continue, but credentials, payments, and binding commercial commitments should not be initiated from the present evidence base.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 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
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 1 report on hosting IP 62.109.154.78 (Webglobe, s.r.o., Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 3% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
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 ekona.cz.
- The request stayed on ekona.cz. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under REG-WEBGLOBE. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by onebit.eu, across 3 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-02-09. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2001-03-01. Clear
- It is hosted on IGNUM-AS, from a server in CZ. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | REG-WEBGLOBE |
|---|---|
| Hosting | IGNUM-AS - Webglobe, s.r.o., CZ |
| Country | CZ |
| Server IP | 62.109.154.78 |
| Name servers | ns.onebit.eu, ns.onebit.org, ns.onebit.cz (185.65.223.35, 2a00:1e40:a:53::5) |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-16 |
| Domain age | 26.54 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-02-09 |
| Archive first seen | 2001-03-01 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 9 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 3% confidence, 1 report | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about ekona.cz 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.