Verdict
nuestraesquipulas.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 | A local virtual-tour page for Esquipulas by Walter Guerra describing panoramas and landmarks. No forms, no payment flows, appears to be informational. |
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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 | 3 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 20 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2007Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2007.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Kaspersky flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
The website presents “Esquipulas 360,” an informational virtual-tour experience attributed to Walter Guerra, showing panoramas and landmarks in Esquipulas, including the Basilica, central park, Convento Belén, and El Mirador; its apparent purpose is tourism information or a personal portfolio rather than online commerce.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
Sensitive interaction risk is critical. External reputation evidence records a confirmed blacklist hit and multiple malicious detections, including a Tier-1 security-vendor detection. These are direct contradictory signals that outweigh the otherwise benign presentation of the homepage. No brand-impersonation signal or conflicting legal-entity names were observed, and the site itself contains no login, payment, or wallet-connection functionality; consequently, the evidence supports a cautionary security conclusion focused on the domain’s reputation rather than an assertion that the tourism content itself is fraudulent.
- The homepage is listed by external reputation checks as blacklisted, with 3 malicious and 3 suspicious detections among 11 effective detections.
- A Tier-1 security vendor, Kaspersky, recorded a threat detection for the domain.
- The homepage presents a local virtual tour and contains no forms, payment flow, login form, or detected wallet activity.
- Domain registration records show 19.58 years of age, created 2007-01-26 and expiring 2027-01-26.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site appears informational and does not claim a financial, brokerage, or other regulated service. No license authority or license number is presented in the available site content, so regulatory status is not applicable on the face of the tourism offering but remains unclear if the site is intended to support any activity beyond viewing. The displayed attribution to Walter Guerra has not been independently connected to a verified real-world operator. Registration is through TUCOWS.COM, CO.; registrant privacy is an administrative limitation rather than evidence of misconduct. The domain’s established registration and historical continuity are positive provenance indicators, but they do not resolve the external reputation contradiction.
- The homepage title and visible content identify the project as “Esquipulas 360 | Walter Guerra” and describe six tourism-related topics.
- No license claim, licensing authority, or registration number is displayed in the reviewed content.
- The site is served on AS33182 by DIMENOC - HostDime.com, Inc., US.
- TLS is issued by YR1 at DV validation level and is valid to 2026-10-05.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, an organization should independently confirm that the project and its attribution are recognized by an authoritative local tourism, municipal, or cultural source. Any request to download software, submit credentials, provide payment information, or follow an unexpected redirect should be assessed through enterprise malware and URL-analysis controls rather than trusted solely because the page is informational. If the site is being used for a formal partnership, the publisher’s identity and contact channels should be confirmed through an independently obtained route.
- The homepage uses the Pannellum 2.5.6 virtual-tour presentation and provides descriptive landmark labels rather than transaction functionality.
- Behavioral testing recorded 2 successful runs, 0 external XHR/fetch requests, 0 hidden forms, and 0 wallet-provider detections.
- The page returned HTTP 200 consistently, with a content capture of 549 characters and no detected cloaking.
- Historical records show 184 archive snapshots spanning 2007–2026, with 20 years tracked.
Summary Verdict
The available evidence supports a critical trust posture for sensitive interaction with the domain. The site’s benign tourism presentation and technically stable behavior do not neutralize the confirmed external reputation contradiction, while the publisher’s real-world identity remains unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The domain resolves directly to one identified hosting address rather than a CDN or WAF edge, with no trusted CDN detected; this provides limited infrastructure mediation and should be treated only as a neutral-to-mitigating technical observation, not as evidence of legitimacy. The hosting infrastructure is located in the United States and includes a registry-location mismatch heuristic, which is a minor contextual signal rather than a standalone determination.
- Hosting infrastructure: AS33182, DIMENOC - HostDime.com, Inc., US; 1 unique IP and 1 likely origin IP.
- No CDN or WAF vendor was detected.
- The resolved address is 66.7.209.178 and the registry is ARIN.
- The transport certificate uses issuer YR1, DV validation, and expires 2026-10-05.
Closing Assessment
The site should be restricted to low-risk, read-only viewing, with sensitive actions, downloads, credential submission, and financial activity withheld unless independent provenance and endpoint safety checks produce clear supporting evidence.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-22 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, external reputation.
01 Governance Risk
- The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN - Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE
02 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 | 25% |
- 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 nuestraesquipulas.com.
- The request stayed on nuestraesquipulas.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under TUCOWS.COM, CO.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by enmiguate.net, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-01-26. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2007-03-12. Clear
- It is hosted on DIMENOC, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | TUCOWS.COM, CO. |
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| Hosting | DIMENOC - HostDime.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 66.7.209.178 |
| Name servers | DNS1.ENMIGUATE.NET, DNS2.ENMIGUATE.NET |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-05 |
| Domain age | 19.58 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-01-26 |
| Archive first seen | 2007-03-12 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 3 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about nuestraesquipulas.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.