Verdict
ellefsen.be 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 | Brand website for ELLEFSEN, a Belgian fashion label selling limited-run clothing online and at a Brussels boutique. Contains product categories, store address and hours, checkout/cart indicator, legal and privacy links, and newsletter signup. |
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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 | 11 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 7.3 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2021Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | 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 2021.
- 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.
ELLEFSEN is a Belgian fashion ecommerce website presenting limited-run clothing, product categories, a Brussels boutique, checkout functionality, and newsletter registration; its apparent business model is direct-to-consumer apparel sales supported by online ordering and physical retail.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s coherent fashion presentation and absence of page-level phishing indicators do not overcome the materially adverse external threat evidence. Multiple external security detections classify the domain as malicious or suspicious, including a confirmed blacklist condition and detections attributed to Fortinet and Sophos; a separate malicious-site check was negative, but that does not negate the other confirmed warnings. No identity contradiction or brand-impersonation finding was observed, so the principal concern is the domain’s external threat reputation rather than conflicting legal identities. The site should therefore be treated as unsuitable for login, credential submission, or payment activity unless the security findings are independently resolved.
- The homepage presents ELLEFSEN as a Belgian fashion label offering limited-run apparel, with no detected phishing indicators or hidden sensitive forms.
- External reputation telemetry recorded 11 malicious and 2 suspicious detections across 18 evaluations, with Fortinet and Sophos among the flagged vendors.
- The domain is listed by external blacklist intelligence; a separate Google Safe Browsing check reported no malicious result.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The website presents an apparent retail identity through its ELLEFSEN branding, Belgian production claims, boutique information, contact area, legal links, and privacy links. However, the available evidence does not independently verify the real-world operator, and no licensing or registration number is claimed on the site; for a fashion retailer this is a transparency and merchant-identity verification matter, not by itself evidence of fraud. The regulatory position is consequently unresolved, while the external blacklist findings remain the decisive concern. The available page-authority signal is low and should not be treated as proof of legitimacy or illegitimacy.
- The homepage states that garments are created in Belgium in highly limited production runs of 3 to 4 pieces per model and identifies a Brussels boutique.
- The site exposes legal and privacy pages, a cart and checkout path, and a newsletter signup, but the available business data contains no claimed license authority or license number.
- The domain was registered on 2019-05-17 and is approximately 7.27 years old; the registration record identifies Registrar.eu.
- The site is served on AS47583 through AS-HOSTINGER, Hostinger International Limited, CY; its TLS certificate is issued by YE1 at DV validation level and is valid through 2026-10-22T04:49:59+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, an independent party should confirm that the Brussels store, seller identity, and commercial registration correspond to the operator of the assessed domain through authoritative Belgian business records or an offline channel. The site’s legal and privacy disclosures should be checked for a complete legal entity, address, returns framework, and payment-obligation information. The external malicious-domain findings should also be escalated to the relevant security or domain-abuse contacts and cleared before credentials or payment details are entered.
- The homepage provides the claimed boutique location and opening information that can be checked independently.
- The legal and privacy pages are available for comparison against authoritative merchant-registration records.
- The checkout and cart functionality create a payment-interaction path requiring independent validation before use.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical and materially unsuitable for sensitive interaction. Although the website presents a coherent retail proposition, the confirmed external threat detections and blacklist status outweigh its otherwise ordinary page content and technical availability.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves through Hostinger infrastructure without a detected CDN or WAF layer, with five addresses assessed as likely origin infrastructure. This provides no independent legitimacy assurance and offers less protective separation between the public service and its hosting environment.
Closing Assessment
Access should remain limited to passive inspection until the domain’s external security reputation and the operator’s commercial identity have been independently confirmed; credentials, account access, and payment submission should not be attempted in the interim.
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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 78% |
- 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 ellefsen.be.
- The request stayed on ellefsen.be. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-12-01. Clear
- It is hosted on AS-HOSTINGER, from a server in UA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
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| Hosting | AS-HOSTINGER - Hostinger International Limited, CY |
| Country | UA |
| Server IP | 2a02:4780:42:6534:5a45:d31f:3eb5:79e8 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-22 |
| Domain age | 7.27 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2021-12-01 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 11 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about ellefsen.be 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.