Verdict
hoteltarget.com.np 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 | Public-facing hotel website (Hotel Target, Kathmandu, Nepal) offering room descriptions, calendar-based booking UI, prices in NPR, contact details, and accepted payment types. Contains links to social channels and a mention of Booking.com for discounts. |
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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 | 15 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 4.7 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2021Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | 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, Kaspersky, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
Hotel Target is a public-facing hospitality website for a hotel in Kathmandu, Nepal, presenting room categories, accommodation facilities, prices in NPR, reservation functionality, contact details, social-channel links, and possible referral traffic to Booking.com. Its apparent business model is direct room-booking revenue supplemented by on-site payment and ancillary hotel services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No conflicting legal identities or on-page brand-impersonation indicators were observed, and the site presents a coherent hotel-booking service rather than a deceptive investment or credential-harvesting proposition. However, this benign page presentation is outweighed by a confirmed blacklist signal and multiple external malicious classifications, including detections from major security vendors. The site should therefore be treated as carrying a material risk of harmful or compromised interaction despite the absence of visible phishing mechanics; account credentials and financial details should not be submitted unless the property and booking channel have been independently validated.
- The homepage and reservation pages present Hotel Target in Kathmandu, room categories, a calendar-based booking interface, and accommodation services.
- The booking content lists a room price of NPR 1500 per night and supports direct reservation activity.
- External reputation results recorded 15 malicious classifications and a confirmed blacklist signal; Google Safe Browsing did not report a malicious result.
- Behavioral inspection found no login form, hidden form, wallet connection, clipboard hijacking, or password-external form.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The apparent identity is that of a local hotel, and the About, Contact, and booking content provide a commercial name, location, service description, and contact details. Independent operator identity is not verified by the available evidence. The site does not present a license claim, licensing authority, or registration number, so hospitality-business status and any applicable local authorization remain verification gaps rather than proof of misconduct. The lack of structured metadata and the absence of a stated legal entity also limit the precision with which the business can be matched to an external corporate or regulatory record.
- Domain registration continuity records a domain age of 4.698151950718686 years; historical observations run from 2021-12-08T00:14:02Z to 2025-02-28T16:55:49Z.
- Hosting is identified as AS13335, CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- The transport certificate is issued by WE1 at DV validation level and is valid to 2026-11-13T10:32:03+00:00.
- The About and Contact content identifies the hotel and its services but does not state a license number or licensing authority.
What to Verify Next
Before any booking or payment, the property’s legal name, physical operation, and authorization to provide accommodation should be confirmed through independently sourced records or an offline contact route. Any reservation should be cross-checked against a reputable third-party listing or independently obtained hotel contact details, and payment should be made only through a channel that provides clear transaction records, cancellation terms, and dispute protection. The official support and contact channels should also be confirmed independently rather than relying solely on the website.
- The Contact page provides the website’s stated contact route for independent comparison with externally sourced property information.
- The Reservation page provides the stated booking terms, including the cancellation condition shown to guests.
- The site links to Booking.com, creating a potential channel for comparing the property listing and reservation details.
- The site’s published booking workflow includes a contact or booking-submission form but no password-login function.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical and unsuitable for sensitive interaction on the present evidence. The external threat findings create a decisive contradiction to the otherwise conventional hotel presentation, and the apparent connection to a real-world property should not be treated as independently proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN and WAF protection provide a mitigating layer against direct exposure of the hosting environment, but they do not establish the site’s legitimacy. All observed addresses were Cloudflare edge infrastructure, and the origin server was not observable; this limits independent infrastructure attribution and leaves open the possibility of rapid content changes behind the edge.
- Observed Cloudflare edge addresses were 104.21.72.122, 172.67.184.28, 2606:4700:3030::6815:487a, and 2606:4700:3035::ac43:b81c.
- Infrastructure resolution identified 4 unique IP addresses, with 4 edge addresses and 0 likely origin addresses.
Closing Assessment
Until the property, operator, and booking channel have been independently validated, interaction should remain limited to passive viewing, with no credential submission or payment initiation.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 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, external reputation.
01 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 |
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| Identity score | 80/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 80% |
- Trusted social count=5
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 hoteltarget.com.np.
- The request stayed on hoteltarget.com.np. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-12-08. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3035::ac43:b81c |
| Name servers | Not available |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-13 |
| Domain age | 4.70 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2021-12-08 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 15 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about hoteltarget.com.np 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.