Verdict
moulin-avocate.com 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 | WordPress site sample page in French for a lawyer (Avocat) covering public law and social security. Standard theme/footer text present; no ecommerce or financial claims. |
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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 | 14 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 4.8 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
Security Alert
Fortinet, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This website is a French-language WordPress blog presenting itself as a professional legal-information site focused on public law and social-security law in Montpellier. Its apparent business model is professional visibility and informational publishing rather than direct online commerce, with the captured homepage containing standard WordPress sample content and no visible transaction or credential-collection function.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
Contradictory evidence is present and materially outweighs the benign appearance of the homepage. External security intelligence recorded multiple malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist status, including detections associated with major security vendors; this is the decisive risk signal for sensitive interaction. The homepage itself does not show a login form, payment mechanism, phishing form, brand-impersonation indicator, or suspicious browser behavior, so the available evidence does not establish that the page content is itself impersonating a known brand. However, the combination of confirmed blacklist status and malicious detections means the site should be treated as unsafe for credentials, financial activity, or other sensitive engagement.
- The homepage presents a French legal blog titled “Avocat droit public Montpellier – Avocat droit de la sécurité sociale,” with no visible login or sensitive-input form.
- External reputation assessment recorded 14 malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist status; two major security vendors were among the flagged sources.
- Domain registration records show registration on 2021-10-26, with an age of 4.82 years, through LWS dba Ligne Web Services.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site's apparent legal-practice identity is not independently verified by the supplied evidence. The captured page does not provide a verified professional registration, license number, or clearly established legal-entity linkage; this is a regulatory and transparency matter requiring separate validation, not a standalone finding of fraud. The valid transport certificate and identifiable hosting arrangements support technical operation of the website but do not establish that the claimed legal practitioner or service is genuine. No matching broker record was identified in the available third-party dataset, although that context has no licensing or regulatory significance.
- The homepage identifies public-law and social-security legal topics but provides no independently verified practitioner or licensing reference in the captured content.
- Hosted on AS12876, operated by Scaleway SAS, France.
- TLS certificate issued by YR2 with DV validation, valid to 2026-10-24 12:57:49 UTC.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive engagement, independently match the claimed legal practitioner and practice details against the relevant French professional registry and confirm that the contact details correspond to that registered entity. Obtain the official web address through an independent source, such as a registry listing or a previously known institutional contact, and reassess the domain's current security status before opening documents or submitting information. Until those checks are complete, restrict activity to non-sensitive viewing and do not provide credentials, personal documents, or payment details.
- The available page content establishes only a lawyer-oriented subject and does not independently connect the site to a verified real-world operator.
- The external security assessment produced a confirmed blacklist signal despite the homepage's informational presentation.
- The site's stated professional purpose makes independent registry and contact-channel validation the relevant next verification step.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical risk for sensitive interaction. The site's informational appearance is not sufficient to overcome the confirmed external security contradictions, and the real-world operator remains unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection is present, and the observed address is an edge endpoint rather than an independently exposed origin. This reduces direct origin exposure and is a mitigating infrastructure characteristic only; it does not validate the site's identity or offset the external reputation findings.
Closing Assessment
The site should be limited to non-sensitive viewing unless and until its operator, professional standing, and current security status have been independently confirmed.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 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 | 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 moulin-avocate.com.
- The request stayed on moulin-avocate.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under LWS dba Ligne Web Services. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-10-26. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-12-18. Clear
- It is hosted on AS12876, from a server in FR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | LWS dba Ligne Web Services |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AS12876 - Scaleway SAS, FR |
| Country | FR |
| Server IP | 51.159.100.183 |
| Name servers | MITCH.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, NICOLE.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-24 |
| Domain age | 4.82 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-10-26 |
| Archive first seen | 2021-12-18 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 14 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about moulin-avocate.com 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.