Verdict
group.btk.ru appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Corporate homepage for BTC Group, a large Russian and regional industrial manufacturer of workwear, uniforms, textiles, knitwear, and specialized garments. The page describes its services and production network and provides physical office addresses and telephone contacts. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 27 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is the corporate presence of BTC Group, an established Russian industrial manufacturer offering workwear, protective clothing, corporate uniforms, textiles, knitwear, and tailored garment solutions for commercial and institutional customers.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No identity contradictions, impersonation, phishing, or other fraud indicators were observed. The site presents coherent corporate content, while interactive testing found no sensitive forms, concealed credential collection, wallet interactions, clipboard manipulation, or cloaking. Its long-established domain and clean external threat reputation provide strong corroboration that this is a legitimate corporate website rather than a recently created deceptive property.
- The domain-registration record shows registration through RU-CENTER-RU on 1 December 1999, making the domain approximately 26.68 years old; registration runs to 31 December 2026.
- The corporate homepage consistently identifies the site as the official BTC Group presence and contains substantial, business-specific content rather than a generic or parked presentation.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, no malicious safe-browsing classification, and no reported abuse against the assessed infrastructure.
- Behavioural examination of the homepage found no login form, hidden form, external password submission, suspicious inline script, cloaking, or cryptocurrency-wallet functionality.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The reviewed homepage represents an industrial clothing and textile business, not a financial, brokerage, investment, or other expressly regulated service. It makes no licensing claim requiring validation in the supplied evidence. The corporate identity is supported at the content level by physical office addresses, telephone contacts, production information, and dedicated corporate-navigation areas, although the precise contracting legal entity should be established from the applicable transaction documents rather than inferred from the BTC Group trading identity alone.
- The homepage provides physical office addresses and telephone contacts alongside sections covering company history, production, careers, partnerships, procurement, news, and cooperation.
- The homepage describes a Product Development and Innovation Center, tailored technical documentation, protective materials, and an internal quality-control process.
- The site is served from AS43298 (StormNetworks — Storm Networks LLC, Russia).
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV TLS certificate issued by YR1, valid until 2 September 2026.
What to Verify Next
For procurement, supply, or other contractual engagement, the counterparty should match the legal name, registration particulars, payment instructions, and authorized signatory in the proposed contract against independently obtained corporate records. Material orders should also be confirmed through the organization’s established telephone or physical-office channels, with product certifications and contractual quality requirements reviewed where protective garments are safety-critical.
- The homepage includes a dedicated “General information on procurement” area, indicating that formal procurement documentation is an appropriate source for counterparty validation.
- The site presents cooperation and partner pathways suitable for independently confirming commercial proposals.
- The homepage states that offerings range from economical industrial clothing to multifunctional garments intended for heavy-industrial and demanding climatic conditions, making specification and certification review relevant to safety-sensitive purchases.
Summary Verdict
The website is a legitimate, established, and trustworthy corporate property. Its coherent business identity, mature provenance, clean security reputation, and benign observed behaviour converge strongly, with no contradicting risk signals. Normal interaction, including account login and standard site use where available, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is directly hosted in Russia without a detected CDN or WAF layer; nine resolved addresses were assessed as likely origin candidates. This makes the hosting topology comparatively exposed rather than edge-shielded, but the resolved infrastructure was identified consistently and showed no confirmed abuse pattern, so this configuration does not undermine the site’s legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users may engage with the site normally, applying standard counterparty and contractual due diligence before material commercial commitments.
Written analysis generated 2026-07-31 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
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 group.btk.ru.
- The request stayed on group.btk.ru. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under RU-CENTER-RU. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ru., across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-12-31. Noted
- It is hosted on StormNetworks, from a server in RU. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | RU-CENTER-RU |
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| Hosting | StormNetworks - Storm Networks LLC, RU |
| Country | RU |
| Server IP | 185.71.67.102 |
| Name servers | ns2.btcgroup.ru., ns.btcgroup.ru. |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-02 |
| Domain age | 26.7 years |
| Domain expiry | 2026-12-31 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about group.btk.ru 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.