Verdict
ghadeergroup.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 | Arabic-language coming-soon landing page for 'مجموعة الغدير' offering water desalination and pump solutions. Provides contact email and a short announcement; no forms or transactional elements present. |
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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 | 8 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 18 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2011248 snapshots | 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 2011.
- 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.
The website is an Arabic-language coming-soon landing page for “Ghadeer Group,” presenting water desalination and pumping systems for a Saudi Arabia–referenced corporate or B2B audience and inviting prospective business inquiries rather than offering an active transactional service.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
External threat intelligence creates a material and confirmed blacklist contradiction despite the benign appearance of the homepage. The page contains no login form, payment workflow, or other sensitive interactive element, and no page-level brand-impersonation signal was identified; however, those limited page controls do not offset the external detections. The domain’s long registration history and archived presence provide provenance context but do not establish that the current operator is legitimate or explain the adverse reputation signals. Sensitive interaction should therefore be treated as unsafe pending independent resolution of the external alerts.
- The homepage is a short coming-soon page with no forms, login controls, transactional elements, wallet activity, or hidden forms.
- External reputation checks recorded 8 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection across 14 evaluated results, with Fortinet, Kaspersky, and Sophos among the flagged vendors.
- The domain was registered on 2009-02-14 and is 17.52 years old; registration is through Name.com, Inc.
- Web archives contain 248 snapshots spanning 2011–2026, covering 16 tracked years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available site presentation does not independently verify the real-world operator. It identifies the business only as Ghadeer Group and references Saudi Arabia; the supplied landing page contains no corporate registration details, licensing information, legal terms, or named regulatory authority. This is a disclosure and verification gap rather than, by itself, proof of fraud, but it is significant given the external reputation contradiction. No matching broker-reputation record was identified, which is neutral context and not a licensing determination. Transport security is present, but a domain-validated certificate confirms encryption rather than organizational identity.
- The homepage identifies “Ghadeer Group,” water desalination and pump solutions, and Saudi Arabia, but provides no registration number, license number, legal entity name, or regulator.
- The site's TLS certificate is issued by YR1, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-09-20T08:30:54+00:00.
- The available page is explicitly a coming-soon landing page and contains no linked legal, terms, licensing, or corporate-information pages.
What to Verify Next
Before any business engagement, an independent corporate-registry search should confirm the legal entity corresponding to the site’s stated group name and Saudi Arabia reference. Any required commercial, engineering, water-treatment, or contracting authorization should be checked directly with the applicable authority rather than relying on the website. Contact channels should be confirmed through an independently sourced company record or offline business contact, and the domain should be reassessed by the organization’s security team before credentials, payment information, documents, or procurement access are exchanged.
- The homepage provides only a coming-soon announcement and an inquiry route, with no independent legal or regulatory documentation.
- The site’s stated business model is corporate/B2B sales, project work, and service contracts rather than an active online checkout or self-service account.
- Browser testing recorded two successful runs with no external XHR or POST activity, no password forms, and no wallet-related behavior.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical risk for sensitive interaction. The site has a plausible corporate presentation and established domain provenance, but its legitimacy remains unverified and the confirmed external reputation contradiction is decisive. The available evidence does not support treating the website as an approved business counterpart.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by a CDN/WAF layer, and the observed edge address was served from AS24940, HETZNER-AS—Hetzner Online GmbH, Germany; the origin server was not observable. This infrastructure can reduce direct exposure and help absorb attacks, but it is a mitigating technical control only and does not validate the operator or override the reputation findings.
- Hosted at AS24940 (HETZNER-AS—Hetzner Online GmbH, DE), observed edge IP 95.216.25.249.
- CDN/WAF protection was detected; 1 edge IP was observed and 0 likely origin IPs were identified.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate enterprise posture is passive observation only until independent identity, authorization, and security checks are completed; sensitive information, credentials, payments, and procurement commitments should not be submitted through the site in the interim.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 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, 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 - Most of what the page loaded came from other domains rather than from this one.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_HIGH - 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 | 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 ghadeergroup.com.
- The request stayed on ghadeergroup.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Name.com, Inc.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by name.com, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-02-14. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2011-01-28. Clear
- It is hosted on HETZNER-AS, from a server in DE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Name.com, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE |
| Country | DE |
| Server IP | 95.216.25.249 |
| Name servers | NS1LMY.NAME.COM, NS2DQX.NAME.COM, NS3SXZ.NAME.COM, NS4KSY.NAME.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-20 |
| Domain age | 17.52 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-02-14 |
| Archive first seen | 2011-01-28 |
| Archive snapshots | 248 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 8 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about ghadeergroup.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.