Verdict
incode.co.jp 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 | Minimal Japanese-language corporate test landing page for incode inc. Informs visitors that project test sites require a dedicated URL and instructs to contact the responsible person; links to the main corporate site. |
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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 | 6 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 9.7 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2021Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | 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
Overview
What appears at the domain is a minimal Japanese-language corporate test landing page for “incode inc.” It tells visitors that project test sites are issued dedicated URLs, directs them to contact the responsible person, and provides a link to the company’s main corporate website rather than presenting products, payment flows, or account functionality.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s sparse landing-page content does not itself display a login form, payment request, sensitive-data form, wallet connection, or clear brand-impersonation pattern. However, this benign presentation is materially outweighed by confirmed external threat detections: the domain is listed on external blacklists and received six malicious classifications among evaluated external detections. These are direct contradictions to the otherwise low-risk appearance of the page and support a security-forward posture for any sensitive interaction. No separate identity inconsistency, phishing form, or brand-impersonation signal was identified in the supplied page analysis.
- The homepage contains approximately 126 characters of Japanese corporate/test-site notice text and no login or sensitive-data form.
- External reputation assessment recorded 6 malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist status.
- The domain was registered on 2016-12-03 and is approximately 9.72 years old.
- Historical records show 15 archive snapshots, first seen 2021-12-08, last seen 2025-09-16, with 5 years tracked; the available history is sparse and does not establish a continuous provenance record.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The page identifies itself as incode inc. but provides only limited corporate context, and the supplied evidence does not independently verify the real-world operator. No license, registration number, or regulated-service claim is presented on the landing page; because the site is framed as a corporate test/holding page rather than a financial service, this is a disclosure gap requiring confirmation rather than standalone evidence of fraud. The page’s stated purpose is also difficult to reconcile with the confirmed external threat detections, so any asserted relationship to the linked corporate website should be independently established. A third-party broker-intelligence lookup found no matching broker record, but that result is contextual only and does not establish legitimacy or regulatory status.
- The homepage title identifies “株式会社incode | incode inc.” and links visitors to the corporate site.
- The homepage states that project test sites require a dedicated URL and instructs visitors to contact the responsible person.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YR2, valid through 2026-10-23.
- Hosting is provided by XSERVER - Xserver Inc., JP, on AS131965.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, the claimed corporate relationship should be confirmed through an independently obtained corporate contact channel rather than relying solely on the page’s link. Any licensing or registration requirement applicable to the intended activity should be checked directly with the relevant official registry. The linked corporate site, responsible-person contact, and the exact purpose of the project URL should also be validated through an offline or independently sourced route.
- The homepage provides only a project-site notice and a route to the corporate website; it does not describe a substantive service or transaction.
- Behavioral testing recorded no login form, hidden sensitive form, wallet connection, or clipboard-hijacking activity.
- The page generated 8 external XHR requests and 4 external POST requests during two successful test runs, including 4 non-whitelisted XHR requests and 2 non-whitelisted POST requests; the destinations should be identified before sensitive use.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical and unsuitable for sensitive interaction. The site’s simple corporate presentation does not offset the converging external threat detections, confirmed blacklist status, limited independently verified identity evidence, and sparse operating context. Passive viewing is materially different from trusting the domain with credentials, account access, or financial activity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to infrastructure associated with XSERVER - Xserver Inc. in Japan, with no CDN or WAF detected and two likely origin IP candidates. This hosting arrangement provides no meaningful protective mediation against the external reputation concerns; infrastructure identification confirms where the site is served, not that the operator is legitimate.
- Served from AS131965, XSERVER - Xserver Inc., JP.
- Infrastructure resolution identified 2 unique IP addresses, 0 edge IPs, and 2 likely origin IP candidates.
- The site uses a DV TLS certificate issued by YR2 and valid to 2026-10-23.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate near-term posture is passive observation only, with credentials, account login, financial transactions, and other sensitive actions withheld until the operator, purpose, and official contact route are independently confirmed.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 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 - The page sent data to a destination TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_POSTS - 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 incode.co.jp.
- The request stayed on incode.co.jp. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by xserver.jp, across 5 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-12-08. Clear
- It is hosted on XSERVER, from a server in JP. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
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| Hosting | XSERVER - Xserver Inc., JP |
| Country | JP |
| Server IP | 183.181.79.35 |
| Name servers | ns1.xserver.jp, ns2.xserver.jp, ns3.xserver.jp, ns4.xserver.jp, ns5.xserver.jp |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-23 |
| Domain age | 9.72 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2021-12-08 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 6 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about incode.co.jp 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.