Verdict
herv.be 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 | Official site for Herve Athlétique Club (founded 1977). Contains club news, event results, training info, contact details and registration notices. Cookie consent and social links included. |
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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 | 4 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 100% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 10 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Risk |
| Domain age | 1.5 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2005Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: 1 to 3 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2005.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
HERV AC is a local athletics-club website presenting club news, competition calendars and results, training schedules, membership and registration information, contact details, and links to social platforms; its apparent purpose is to support the activities and administration of Herve Athlétique Club.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
Contradictory external reputation signals materially outweigh the benign appearance of the club content. The site is associated with confirmed blacklist detections from multiple external sources, while four external assessments identified malicious indicators. These findings do not establish that the athletics-club pages themselves contain malicious code: the page analysis found no phishing form, credential collection, wallet activity, cloaking, or suspicious browser behavior. However, the combination of confirmed blacklist status and malicious detections makes sensitive interaction inappropriate. No identity inconsistency, explicit impersonation, or phishing form was observed in the supplied page evidence.
- The homepage identifies “HERV AC” as an athletics club in Herve and states that it has operated since 1977; the page contains routine club, event, training, and contact content with no listed fraud indicators.
- External reputation assessment recorded 4 malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist condition for the domain.
- The registration record gives a creation date of 2025-02-09 and an age of 1.52 years; historical provenance records span 2005-12-14 through 2025-12-17, covering 21 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The apparent business model is a community athletics club funded through memberships, event registrations, sponsors, and possibly donations rather than a financial service. The website presents club information, registration notices, contact details, and social links, but the supplied content does not identify a formal legal entity registration or regulatory authorization number. This is a disclosure and verification gap rather than, by itself, evidence of fraud. The available identity evidence connects the site to the named club with some confidence, but does not independently verify the real-world operator. No broker-category match was identified in the supplied third-party context.
- The homepage title and content identify “HERV AC - Club d'athlétisme à Herve depuis 1977.”
- Internal pages include competitions, calendar, results, training, schedules, groups, information, news, and contact sections.
- The site links to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and a photo-sharing page, providing external channels through which the club’s affiliation can be checked.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YE2, valid through 2026-11-13.
What to Verify Next
Before any account, registration, payment, or data-submission activity, the club’s current legal operator and event-registration arrangements should be confirmed through an independently sourced athletics-federation or local sporting-organization record. Any payment recipient, membership fee, or donation destination should be checked against independently obtained club contact details rather than relying solely on the website. Official social profiles and event organizers should be contacted through separately verified channels, and the site’s contact and registration pages should be checked for consistency.
- The contact and registration notices are presented on the site, but the supplied content does not provide a formal legal registration number.
- The page analysis found no sensitive forms, login form, hidden form, or untrusted form destination.
- The site’s external social links provide potential independent channels for confirming the club’s affiliation and current activities.
Summary Verdict
The website presents as a plausible local sports-club information service, but the authoritative assessment is a low-trust posture because confirmed external reputation contradictions create elevated risk for sensitive interaction. Apparent club legitimacy and benign page behavior are insufficient to overcome those contradictions, and the real-world operator remains not independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is served through CDN/WAF infrastructure, with the observed edge address 213.186.33.17 hosted on AS16276 by OVH - OVH SAS in France; the origin server was not observable in the analysis. This infrastructure provides a mitigating layer against direct exposure but does not establish website legitimacy.
- Hosting infrastructure: AS16276, OVH - OVH SAS, FR.
- Observed edge IP: 213.186.33.17; CDN/WAF protection was detected and no origin candidate was observed.
- TLS certificate: issuer YE2, validation level DV, valid to 2026-11-13.
- The observed address is associated with 10 abuse reports attributed to shared OVH infrastructure; this is a reputational signal concerning the hosting address, not proof that the club content generated those reports.
Closing Assessment
Interaction should be limited to informational browsing until the operator, registration arrangements, and payment destinations have been independently confirmed; credentials and financial information should not be submitted through the site.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-19 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.
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
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 10 reports on hosting IP 213.186.33.17 (OVH SAS, Content Delivery Network), 100% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 78% |
- Trusted social count=3
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 herv.be.
- The request stayed on herv.be. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ovh.net. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2005-12-14. Clear
- It is hosted on OVH, from a server in FR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | OVH - OVH SAS, FR |
| Country | FR |
| Server IP | 213.186.33.17 |
| Name servers | ns101.ovh.net dns101.ovh.net |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-13 |
| Domain age | 1.52 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2005-12-14 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 4 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 100% confidence, 10 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about herv.be 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.