Verdict
plantwerkz.com 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 | Website for Plantwerkz Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based landscape contractor offering design & build, maintenance, specialist services, procurement and consultancy. Includes projects, services, awards and contact details. |
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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 | 22% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 14 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 17 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2010Public 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 2010.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Plantwerkz.com is a corporate website for Plantwerkz Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based landscaping contractor presenting design-and-build work, landscape maintenance, arboriculture and horticulture services, global procurement, consultancy, green walls, floating wetland systems, green roofs, projects, awards, and contact information.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s presented business model is consistent with a conventional commercial landscaping provider, and the examined pages showed no login form, credential-harvesting mechanism, crypto functionality, or overtly deceptive financial offer. However, this benign page presentation is outweighed by confirmed external reputation contradictions: multiple evaluated sources recorded malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist hit. The associated abuse reports concern a shared Squarespace content-delivery IP rather than being uniquely attributable to Plantwerkz, which limits their evidentiary specificity; nevertheless, the domain-level malicious detections and blacklist status remain material. No conflicting legal-entity names, brand impersonation, or phishing behavior were observed in the supplied page analysis, but the real-world operator identity remains unverified.
- External reputation checks recorded 3 malicious and 1 suspicious detection for the evaluated site, with blacklist status confirmed by 2 sources.
- The hosting-IP evidence records 14 abuse reports against 198.49.23.145, attributed to shared Squarespace infrastructure rather than specifically to the website.
- The homepage analysis identified no login form, hidden form, password-external form, wallet connection, clipboard hijack, or suspicious inline script.
- The domain registration record shows creation on 2009-11-02, an age of 16.81 years, and registration through Dreamscape Networks International Pte Ltd.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents a defined corporate service offering and identifies itself as Plantwerkz Pte Ltd, while the registration record names Vincent Low; these signals do not establish the operator’s legal identity independently and should not be treated as identity verification. The available pages do not state a licensing authority or license number. For a landscaping contractor, that omission is a regulatory and disclosure point requiring confirmation rather than standalone evidence of fraud. No match was returned in the supplied broker-reputation dataset. Transport security is present, but the certificate uses domain validation only, which does not authenticate the underlying legal entity.
- The homepage title and corporate content identify “Plantwerkz Pte Ltd” and describe design-and-build, implementation, maintenance, specialist, procurement, and consultancy services.
- The registration record lists Dreamscape Networks International Pte Ltd as registrar and Vincent Low as registrant.
- The site’s hosting telemetry identifies AS53831 operated by SQUARESPACE - Squarespace, Inc., US.
- The TLS certificate is issued by YR1, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-10-01T00:27:58+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive engagement, an independent check should confirm that Plantwerkz Pte Ltd is the contracting entity, that its Singapore business registration details correspond to the site’s claims, and that quotations, payment instructions, and contractual contacts are consistent with independently sourced company records. Any sector-specific licensing or permit requirement should be confirmed with the relevant Singapore authority where applicable. Official contact channels should also be validated through an independent, offline route before transmitting documents or approving payment.
- The site provides dedicated About, Projects, Services, and contact-oriented “Get in Touch” paths that can be compared with independently sourced company information.
- The pages describe commercial client services and named project work rather than presenting a regulated investment or financial product.
- Behavioral testing recorded 2 successful runs, 14 external XHR requests, and 2 non-whitelisted external requests, with no external POST activity or password submission.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated risk for sensitive interaction. The site’s professional service presentation does not reconcile the confirmed external reputation contradictions, and available evidence is insufficient to independently verify the real-world operator identity. Passive review may be informative, but the site should not presently be treated as a trusted basis for sensitive engagement.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, and all observed addresses were CDN edge servers with no origin candidates identified. This reduces direct exposure of the underlying host and is a mitigating technical control, but it does not resolve the site-level reputation findings or prove legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Sensitive actions should remain suspended until the contracting entity, payment instructions, and relevant business credentials have been independently confirmed through trusted channels.
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 - Most of what the page loaded came from other domains rather than from this one.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_HIGH
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 14 reports on hosting IP 198.49.23.145 (Squarespace, Inc., Content Delivery Network), 22% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
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 plantwerkz.com.
- The request stayed on plantwerkz.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Dreamscape Networks International Pte Ltd. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-11-02. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2010-04-04. Clear
- It is hosted on SQUARESPACE, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Dreamscape Networks International Pte Ltd |
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| Hosting | SQUARESPACE - Squarespace, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 198.49.23.145 |
| Name servers | PRINCESS.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, RODRIGO.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-01 |
| Domain age | 16.81 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-11-02 |
| Archive first seen | 2010-04-04 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 3 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 22% confidence, 14 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about plantwerkz.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.