Verdict
gsclinic.pt 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 | Informational site for GS Clinic (medical and dental clinic in Almada) describing services, team, contact details, opening hours and patient testimonials. |
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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 | 7 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 11 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2015Public history exists | 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 2015.
- 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.
This website is the online presence of GS Clinic, a medical and dental clinic in Almada, Portugal, presenting clinical services, practitioner information, patient opinions, opening hours, location details, and contact channels for appointments and paid healthcare treatments.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No conflicting legal identities or on-page brand-impersonation indicators were observed, and the site presents a coherent local-clinic profile without login forms, financial solicitation, or obvious phishing mechanics. However, this benign presentation is materially outweighed by confirmed external threat contradictions: the domain is blacklisted, with multiple malicious detections and additional suspicious detection activity, including coverage from Fortinet and Sophos. Accordingly, the site should be treated as unsuitable for credentials, payments, or other sensitive interaction until the external findings are independently resolved.
- The homepage and clinic pages describe GS Clinic as a medical and dental practice established in 2006, with team, contact, service, and patient-opinion sections.
- External security assessment recorded 7 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection; Fortinet and Sophos were among the flagged vendors.
- Domain age is 11.34839151266256 years, with registration year approximately 2014.
- Archive records span 2015-04-16 to 2026-05-11, representing 12 years tracked; no suspicious repurposing or semantic category drift was identified.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available pages provide a clinic name, location, services, practitioner information, and operating details, but no licensing authority, registration number, or license claim is disclosed. This is a regulatory-transparency gap rather than, by itself, proof of fraud; nevertheless, the lack of disclosed authorization is significant for a healthcare service and should be resolved independently. The available identity signals are consistent with a real local business, but the operator’s real-world identity is not independently verified. A third-party broker-reputation dataset produced no match, which is contextual only and does not establish licensing or regulatory standing.
- The clinic, team, services, contact, and privacy pages provide the website’s principal identity and operational disclosures.
- No license claim, licensing authority, or license number is stated in the supplied business and regulatory content.
- The site is hosted on AS62416 through PTServidor - SAMPLING LINE-SERVICOS E INTERNET, LDA, PT.
- Transport security uses a DV certificate issued by YR1, valid until 2026-10-22T18:11:25+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any appointment, payment, or submission of personal information, the clinic’s legal operator and practitioner credentials should be checked against the relevant Portuguese healthcare and business registries. Contact details and the physical location should also be confirmed through an independently obtained route, and any external security warning should be resolved by the organization responsible for the domain. Until those checks are complete, interaction should remain limited to passive browsing, with no credentials or financial information submitted.
- The clinic’s team and services pages identify the practitioners and healthcare activities that require independent credential and authorization checks.
- The contact and location pages provide the details needed for an offline confirmation of the clinic’s identity and operating premises.
- The homepage was observed without a login form, sensitive form, hidden form, or wallet-related interaction surface.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical risk for sensitive interaction. Although the site’s content is consistent with a local healthcare business, the confirmed external threat contradictions prevent the available evidence from supporting operational trust or safe engagement.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single likely origin rather than through a detected CDN or WAF, so the infrastructure provides limited protective separation between the public service and its hosting endpoint. This is a mitigating-context consideration only and does not establish legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Sensitive engagement should be deferred until independent identity, healthcare authorization, and security-status checks produce satisfactory results.
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 | 76/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 76% |
- Trusted social count=2
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 gsclinic.pt.
- The request stayed on gsclinic.pt. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2015-04-16. Clear
- It is hosted on PTServidor, from a server in PT. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | PTServidor - SAMPLING LINE-SERVICOS E INTERNET, LDA, PT |
| Country | PT |
| Server IP | 185.32.188.79 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-22 |
| Domain age | 11.35 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2015-04-16 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 7 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about gsclinic.pt 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.