Verdict
pintoxicated.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 | Personal portfolio website titled 'Pintoxicated' showcasing cities, museums, public art and recent projects. Minimal content and no forms or transactional elements detected. |
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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 | 10 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 31% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 34 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 10 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2016Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | 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 2016.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Sophos, Fortinet flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
Pintoxicated is a personal artist portfolio website presenting cities, museums, public art, recent projects, and an “About Me” section under the title “Pintoxicated”; its apparent purpose is to showcase creative work rather than sell products, solicit payments, or manage user funds.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No brand-impersonation, phishing-form, wallet-connection, or transactional indicators were observed in the captured pages, and the available content is consistent with a personal portfolio. However, this benign presentation is outweighed by a confirmed blacklist event and multiple external malicious detections associated with the assessed domain, including detections from Sophos and Fortinet. A separate set of abuse reports concerns a shared Squarespace provider IP rather than being uniquely attributable to this website, but the domain-level detections remain a material contradiction. The available evidence therefore supports a high-risk posture for credentials, account access, downloads, or other sensitive interaction.
- Homepage: presents “Pintoxicated” as a portfolio covering cities, museums, public art, recent projects, and personal information; no forms or payment functionality were detected.
- Homepage behavior: no login form, hidden form, external submission, wallet connection, clipboard activity, or suspicious inline script was observed across two successful runs.
- External domain assessment: 10 malicious detections were recorded, with Sophos and Fortinet among the flagged providers; the domain was also recorded on an external blacklist.
- Shared hosting-IP assessment: 34 abuse reports were associated with IP address 198.185.159.144, attributed to shared Squarespace infrastructure rather than specifically to the site.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site appears to operate as a personal portfolio rather than a financial, brokerage, or other regulated service. The About Me content identifies the creator as Gregorio Pinto, but the available evidence does not independently verify that identity or establish a formal legal entity. No licensing claim or registration number is presented, which is a transparency and verification gap rather than, by itself, proof of fraud. The domain has a substantial registration history and valid transport encryption, but those technical facts do not resolve the external reputation contradiction.
- Domain registration record: Registered 2016 (~10.04 years old) through TUCOWS.COM, CO.; registrant name recorded as Contact Privacy Inc. Customer 0164966896.
- About Me/navigation content: identifies the site as a personal project associated with Gregorio Pinto and provides no stated regulatory license or registration number.
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by YR2 with DV validation, valid to 2026-10-05T15:14:52+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, independently confirm that the intended site is the correct portfolio domain and cross-check the creator’s identity through reputable, separately sourced channels rather than relying solely on the site itself. Security teams should also obtain an independent malware or URL-reputation assessment and confirm that any downloaded material is safe in a controlled environment. If the site is presented as something more than a portfolio, its claimed business activity and any applicable registration should be checked directly with the relevant authority before engagement.
- About Me page: provides the stated creator identity that should be cross-checked through an independent source.
- Site navigation: exposes portfolio sections but does not establish an independently verified business or institutional affiliation.
- Captured page behavior: showed no payment, login, or sensitive-data collection mechanism, limiting the observed interaction surface.
Summary Verdict
The website presents a credible-looking personal portfolio surface but carries a critical trust posture because strong external threat detections and a confirmed blacklist status override the otherwise benign page presentation. Its real-world operator identity remains unverified, and sensitive interaction is not supported by the available evidence.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves through Squarespace, Inc. in the United States on AS53831, with four resolved IP addresses assessed as likely origin candidates and no separately identified edge IPs. This mainstream hosting arrangement and stable TLS deployment are mitigating infrastructure characteristics only; they do not establish site legitimacy or offset the external threat findings.
- Hosting infrastructure: Served from AS53831 (SQUARESPACE - Squarespace, Inc., US).
- IP resolution: Four unique IP addresses were observed, with 0 identified as edge IPs and 4 assessed as likely origin candidates.
- Transport layer: The certificate uses DV validation and issuer YR2, with validity recorded through 2026-10-05T15:14:52+00:00.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate enterprise posture is to avoid credential submission, downloads, account access, and financial interaction unless the external detections are independently resolved and the site’s authenticity is confirmed through trusted channels.
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, 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
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 34 reports on hosting IP 198.185.159.144 (Squarespace, Inc., Content Delivery Network), 31% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
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 pintoxicated.com.
- The request stayed on pintoxicated.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under TUCOWS.COM, CO.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by hover.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-08-08. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2016-10-08. Clear
- It is hosted on SQUARESPACE, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | TUCOWS.COM, CO. |
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| Hosting | SQUARESPACE - Squarespace, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 198.185.159.144 |
| Name servers | NS1.HOVER.COM, NS2.HOVER.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-05 |
| Domain age | 10.04 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-08-08 |
| Archive first seen | 2016-10-08 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 10 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 31% confidence, 34 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about pintoxicated.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.