Verdict
empcme.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 | An ecommerce WordPress/WooCommerce storefront focused on EMP/CME protection and prepping supplies with product listings, sale pricing, cart, checkout and order-tracking form. Appears to be a niche retail site rather than an investment or credential-harvesting 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 | 16 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 4.2 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2024Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | 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 2024.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet, Kaspersky, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
empcme.com presents a WordPress/WooCommerce storefront selling EMP/CME protection equipment, survival and emergency-preparedness supplies, generators, Faraday cages, radios, food kits, and related accessories through product listings, cart, checkout, account, and order-tracking functions. Its apparent business model is direct-to-consumer retail based on one-time product purchases.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s retail presentation is internally consistent with an ordinary ecommerce storefront, and the supplied page analysis identified no explicit product, brand-impersonation, or credential-harvesting language. However, that benign appearance is outweighed by confirmed external threat detections: the domain is blacklisted by multiple external sources, with malicious classifications recorded by several established security vendors. The site also exposes login, checkout, and order-tracking functions, while behavioral testing detected hidden forms in both observed runs and a substantial post-interaction DOM change. These findings create a material risk for sensitive interaction even though the available content does not establish a specific impersonated brand or a confirmed phishing page. No identity contradiction or brand impersonation was observed.
- The homepage presents product categories, sale pricing, cart, checkout, account access, and order tracking for EMP/CME and survival products.
- Behavioral testing of the homepage detected hidden forms in 2 of 2 runs and a maximum post-interaction DOM difference of 702.
- External reputation testing recorded 16 malicious detections and 0 suspicious detections; Fortinet, Kaspersky, and Sophos were among the flagged vendors.
- Domain registration telemetry records 2022-05-25T23:05:14Z creation and an age of 4.24 years through registrar TUCOWS.COM, CO.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site appears to operate as a consumer-goods retailer rather than a clearly regulated financial or investment service. The available pages do not present a license, registration number, or named regulatory authority, and the real-world operator identity remains unverified; these are verification gaps rather than independent proof of fraud. The site’s transport security is valid but uses domain validation only, which confirms encrypted transmission without independently validating the operating entity.
- The homepage identifies a direct-to-consumer retail model and displays product categories rather than regulated financial products.
- No license, registration number, or regulatory authority is presented in the available homepage and storefront content.
- Domain registration records show a 2022-05-25T23:05:14Z creation date, 4.24-year age, and registration through TUCOWS.COM, CO.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by YR2, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-10-03T04:12:44+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any purchase or account activity, an independent business-identity check should confirm the operating company, physical business details, refund terms, and an independently sourced contact route. Any claimed product certifications, performance claims, warranties, and consumer-safety representations should be checked against the manufacturer or an authoritative certification body. Licensing or registration should be confirmed with the relevant jurisdictional registry if the operator represents the business as regulated or makes claims requiring authorization. Payment should be limited to a method offering meaningful chargeback or buyer protection, and credentials should not be reused.
- The available storefront content provides product and ordering functionality but does not independently establish the operator’s legal identity.
- The homepage includes account-login, checkout, and order-tracking forms, making identity and payment verification relevant before sensitive interaction.
- The page analysis found no structured business-identity markup, no meta description, and no external links in the captured content.
Summary Verdict
The website has a critical trust posture for sensitive interaction. Its ordinary ecommerce presentation does not offset the convergence of confirmed malicious external detections, blacklist status, hidden-form behavior, and unverified operator identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single apparent origin address rather than a protected CDN edge, with no CDN or WAF detected. Hosting is provided by InMotion Hosting, Inc. in the United States; this is a neutral infrastructure observation and does not mitigate the external reputation findings.
- Hosting infrastructure is resolved to 198.46.93.206 in the United States.
- The site is served from AS22611, InMotion Hosting, Inc.
- Infrastructure mapping reports 1 unique IP, 0 edge IPs, and 1 likely origin IP; no CDN was detected.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate posture is read-only observation only until independent identity, product, payment, and contact-channel checks are completed; login, credential submission, and financial transactions should be withheld in the interim.
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, behaviour in a sandbox, page content, 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 - The structure of the page changed sharply while it was loading.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_DOM_DENSITY_SPIKE - The page contained a form a visitor cannot see.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_HIDDEN_FORMS - The page asks visitors for sensitive information.Page content
rule:PAGE_FORM_SENSITIVE - 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 empcme.com.
- The request stayed on empcme.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under TUCOWS.COM, CO.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by inmotionhosting.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-05-25. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2024-04-21. Clear
- It is hosted on INMOTION, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | TUCOWS.COM, CO. |
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| Hosting | INMOTION - InMotion Hosting, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 198.46.93.206 |
| Name servers | NS.INMOTIONHOSTING.COM, NS2.INMOTIONHOSTING.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-03 |
| Domain age | 4.24 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-05-25 |
| Archive first seen | 2024-04-21 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 16 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about empcme.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.