Verdict
epibenie.dz is low-trust and potentially risky.
Several risk patterns were present. Do not send money or personal details until you have verified this business another way.
| What this site appears to be | Corporate website for EPIBENIE presenting company information and a detailed catalog of food additives and raw materials for the bakery/pastry/ice-cream industry. |
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Compromised host notice
A threat-intelligence feed listed a file on epibenie.dz as hosting scam content (last seen 2026-09-17). TrustSniffer's evidence indicates that the site itself was compromised: the listing concerns a file placed on it by someone else, and the site's owner is most likely a victim, not the actor.
Until the file is removed, downloading anything from this site is not safe. If you run this site, remove the listed file, update the site software and its plugins, change its passwords and review it for other unauthorized changes.
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 | 2 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 4.8 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2021298 snapshots | 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 2021.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This is the EPIBENIE corporate website, presenting company information and a product catalogue for food additives and raw materials supplied to the bakery, pastry, and ice-cream industries; its apparent business model is B2B importing, manufacturing, and product distribution.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site presents a conventional corporate catalogue, with no observed login form, sensitive submission form, cryptocurrency functionality, or explicit brand-impersonation indicators. However, this benign page presentation is outweighed by confirmed external threat detections and blacklist results, including two malicious detections and a tier-one security detection. The analysis also recorded substantial document-object changes after interaction, repeated console errors, and suspicious network-behaviour classification; these signals do not establish the operator’s identity but materially increase the risk associated with sensitive interaction. No conflicting legal-entity names were observed, and no direct impersonation finding was recorded, but the confirmed blacklist status is itself a material contradiction to the site’s corporate presentation.
- The homepage describes EPIBENIE as an importer, manufacturer, and supplier of food-industry inputs, while page analysis found no login or sensitive form.
- External reputation assessment recorded 2 malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist result.
- Domain continuity is 4.80 years, with 1,753 recorded days of continuity.
- Historical coverage contains 298 archive snapshots spanning 2021-11-29 to 2026-05-13, with 6 years tracked; the historical record does not show suspicious repurposing.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The company-information content states that EPIBENIE was created in 2009 and describes import-export and manufacturing activities. The site’s legal and governance disclosure remains unclear: no licensing authority or registration number is presented in the supplied content, and the real-world operator is not independently verified. This is a verification gap rather than proof of unlawful conduct, but it is significant given the external threat detections. The available broker-context check produced no matching profile and therefore provides neither regulatory validation nor a contrary legal finding.
- The company-information content identifies EPIBENIE and describes import-export and manufacturing activities.
- The business model is presented as B2B supply and distribution rather than a financial or regulated service.
- No license claim, licensing authority, or license number is present in the supplied business-model record.
What to Verify Next
Before any order, payment, account creation, or exchange of business documents, an independent corporate-registry check should match the EPIBENIE name, operating address, and responsible legal entity. Any claimed food-industry authorisations, import permissions, or product-compliance documents should be confirmed with the relevant public authority or issuing body. Contact details and payment instructions should be validated through an independently sourced business channel, and transaction protections should be confirmed before funds or sensitive information are provided.
- The site’s company-information and contact content should be reconciled with an independent corporate registry.
- The absence of a stated licensing or registration reference makes external confirmation of the operating entity necessary.
- The catalogue and contact functions provide a basis for validating product documentation and commercial terms before a transaction.
Summary Verdict
The website has a plausible corporate presentation but remains low trust for sensitive interaction because confirmed external threat detections and blacklist results conflict with its otherwise ordinary business content. Operator identity and regulatory standing are not independently established, so the site should not be treated as a validated commercial counterparty.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is delivered through CDN/WAF-protected edge infrastructure, with the observed edge address associated with Hetzner Online GmbH in Germany; the origin server was not observable in this analysis. This protection limits direct origin exposure and is a mitigating technical control, but it does not resolve the external reputation contradiction. Confirmed technical evidence shows hosting on AS24940 (Hetzner Online GmbH); the transport certificate is issued by YR2 using Domain Validation and remains valid to 2026-11-27.
- Served from AS24940, HETZNER-AS / Hetzner Online GmbH, Germany.
- Observed edge IP: 135.181.225.133; no origin candidate was identified.
- TLS certificate issuer: YR2; validation level: DV; valid to 2026-11-27.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users should limit activity to passive review until the operator, corporate standing, and transaction channels have been independently validated; sensitive credentials, documents, and funds should not be committed in the interim.
Written analysis generated 2026-09-18 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
1 finding contributed to this verdict, raised by analysis engine, behaviour in a sandbox.
01 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 rewrote itself after it was interacted with, so what a visitor first sees is not what they end up on.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_DOM_DIFF_AFTER_INTERACTION
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 epibenie.dz.
- The request stayed on epibenie.dz. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-11-29. Clear
- It is hosted on HETZNER-AS, from a server in DE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE |
| Country | DE |
| Server IP | 135.181.225.133 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-27 |
| Domain age | 4.80 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2021-11-29 |
| Archive snapshots | 298 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about epibenie.dz 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.