Verdict
khb-tv.co.jp 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 | Homepage for khb Higashi-Nippon Broadcasting, a Japanese regional television station serving news, programming, sports, events, social media, and corporate information. |
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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 | 29 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 19985000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Amazon RSA 2048 M04 | 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).
- Public web-archive history exists since 1998.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
khb Higashi-Nippon Broadcasting is an established Japanese regional television broadcaster presenting local and national news, television programming, sports, events, social-media content, corporate information, and a web shop for its audience.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions, phishing indicators, confirmed blacklist findings, or malicious reputation results were observed. The homepage’s warning about fake accounts impersonating its announcers is a protective notice concerning third parties, not evidence that the website itself is impersonating another entity. Its content, navigation, and business model are consistent with a regional broadcaster, with no sensitive login form, credential-harvesting mechanism, or financial manipulation signal identified.
- The homepage identifies khb Higashi-Nippon Broadcasting and presents news, programmes, sports, events, corporate information, and official social channels.
- The domain was registered in 1997 and is approximately 29.01 years old.
- The site has 5,000 archive snapshots spanning 1998–2023, covering 26 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The corporate-information area provides company overview, corporate principles, human-rights policy, privacy policy, recruitment information, and programme-improvement material. No regulatory licence or registration number is presented in the supplied page content; this is a limited disclosure point for confirmation, not evidence of deceptive conduct. External reputation checks were clean, and no broker-dataset match was identified.
- The corporate-information pages include company overview, policies, contact information, and programme-governance material.
- The site is served from AS16509, Amazon.com, Inc. (US).
- The TLS certificate is issued by Amazon RSA 2048 M04, uses DV validation, and is valid through 2026-10-30.
What to Verify Next
Confirm the broadcaster’s legal identity and any applicable broadcasting authorization through the relevant official Japanese registry. For commercial enquiries or purchases, independently confirm the published contact and shop channels through the broadcaster’s official corporate information.
- The homepage links to company information, privacy policies, contact facilities, and a web shop.
- The site presents official social-media and YouTube navigation alongside its broadcasting content.
Summary Verdict
The website presents as a legitimate, established, and trustworthy regional media organization with strong identity continuity, coherent public-facing content, clean reputation signals, and no observed impersonation or phishing contradiction. Normal interaction, including account login and standard use, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Amazon infrastructure providing CDN/WAF coverage, with observed traffic associated with AS16509. This protective architecture reduces direct exposure of the origin environment and is a mitigating security factor, but does not independently establish legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Standard browsing, login, account activity, and ordinary transactions may proceed normally, subject to the usual organizational controls appropriate for media and e-commerce services.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-02 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 khb-tv.co.jp.
- The request stayed on khb-tv.co.jp. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by d-53.info, across 3 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1998-01-30. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 52.198.31.96 |
| Name servers | ns001-pdts0vo33uvlu3pa.p.d-53.info, ns001-pdts0vo33uvlu3pa.p.d-53.jp, ns001-pdts0vo33uvlu3pa.p.d-53.net |
| SSL issuer | Amazon RSA 2048 M04 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-30 |
| Domain age | 29.0 years |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 1998-01-30 |
| Archive snapshots | 5000 |
| 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 khb-tv.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.