Verdict
mask.associates 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 | MASK Associates (Pvt) Ltd. — a Bangladesh-based jute exporter and manufacturer with company history, ISO claims, product listings and contact details. Site provides phone numbers, email and address and a contact/leave-message form. |
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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 | 2 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 9.5 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2017Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 | 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 2017.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This website presents MASK Associates (Pvt) Ltd. as a Bangladesh-based manufacturer and exporter of jute products, including raw jute, yarn, cloth, bags, hessian, and sacking, with a corporate profile, product catalogue, company-history material, and direct buyer contact options.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content is consistent with a conventional corporate exporter: it has no login form, credential-harvesting element, investment solicitation, crypto functionality, or detected brand-impersonation pattern. However, independent external reputation checks recorded two malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist listing. This is a material reputation contradiction even though the website itself contains no explicit phishing or impersonation indicators, and it warrants a clearly cautious posture for credentials, payments, document exchange, or other sensitive interactions. The published corporate identity also remains independently unverified; that uncertainty should not be treated as proof of fraud, but it prevents the on-page presentation from resolving the external warning.
- Homepage: Presents MASK Associates (Pvt) Ltd. as a jute exporter and manufacturer and describes physical-product sales through buyer inquiries.
- Homepage and contact functionality: One contact form was observed, with no login form, hidden sensitive form, or credential-collection mechanism detected.
- External reputation telemetry: Two malicious detections were recorded, alongside a confirmed blacklist listing.
- Domain history telemetry: Registered 2017-03-07; approximately 9.46 years old. Archive records show 81 snapshots spanning 2017-05-21 to 2025-10-14 across 9 tracked years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The about and homepage material identifies MASK Associates (Pvt) Ltd., describes activity since 1982, and makes ISO-related claims, while the contact material provides business contact details. These disclosures support a coherent commercial presentation, but the operator’s real-world identity has not been independently verified. No license or registration number is disclosed in the supplied site analysis; for a physical-goods exporter this is primarily a corporate and trade-verification gap rather than evidence of a scam. The domain is registered through GoDaddy.com, LLC, and the site uses a valid domain-validated certificate issued by Sectigo; these are infrastructure and continuity indicators, not confirmation of the company’s legal status.
- Homepage/about content: States that MASK Associates has supported and grown the jute industry since 1982 and exports and manufactures multiple jute products.
- Contact page: Provides telephone numbers, an address, email contact, and a leave-message form.
- Hosting telemetry: Served from AS26496, AS-26496-GO-DADDY-COM-LLC, GoDaddy.com, LLC, US.
- TLS telemetry: Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, DV validation, valid to 2026-10-23T23:59:59+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before a transaction or exchange of sensitive business information, an enterprise buyer should independently confirm the company’s legal registration, export status, and the stated ISO certifications through the relevant Bangladeshi authorities and certification bodies. Bank-account ownership, trade documentation, product samples, references from established counterparties, and payment-protection arrangements should be validated through independent business channels rather than relying solely on information supplied through the website. Contact details should also be cross-checked through an offline or independently sourced route before material commitments are made.
- About page: Corporate history and certification claims provide specific assertions for independent verification.
- Product pages: The listed product categories define the goods and supply-chain claims that should be matched against quotations, samples, and trade documents.
- Contact page: The supplied business contact details and inquiry form provide channels that should be corroborated independently.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust, with elevated risk concentrated in sensitive interaction and governance assurance rather than in the site’s visible product-catalogue mechanics. The website appears professionally structured and commercially plausible, but the unresolved external reputation contradiction and unverified operator identity outweigh its benign presentation.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by CDN/WAF infrastructure, and the observed edge address is 184.168.117.223 on AS26496, GoDaddy.com, LLC. The origin server was not observable in this analysis; edge protection can reduce direct exposure and may mitigate some infrastructure risk, but it does not establish the legitimacy of the operator or neutralize the external reputation findings.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate enterprise posture is to restrict activity to low-risk review until independent corporate, certification, counterparty, and payment checks are completed; sensitive credentials, documents, and funds should not be committed on the basis of the website alone.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 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.
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 - A large share of what the page loaded came from other domains.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_MODERATE
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 mask.associates.
- The request stayed on mask.associates. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by domaincontrol.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-03-07. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2017-05-21. Clear
- It is hosted on AS-26496-GO-DADDY-COM-LLC, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
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| Hosting | AS-26496-GO-DADDY-COM-LLC - GoDaddy.com, LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 184.168.117.223 |
| Name servers | ns43.domaincontrol.com, ns44.domaincontrol.com |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-23 |
| Domain age | 9.46 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-03-07 |
| Archive first seen | 2017-05-21 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about mask.associates 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.