Verdict
printshop.co.kr 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 | Korean-language online printshop with product categories (business cards, brochures, stickers, envelopes), company registration info, contact email, and basic ordering guidance. |
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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 | 7 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 22 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 1998235 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GlobalSign GCC R6 AlphaSSL CA 2025 | 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 1998.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
The website is a Korean-language online commercial printshop presenting business cards, brochures, stickers, envelopes, binding services, banners, and related printed products for direct ordering and fulfilment.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content is consistent with a conventional print-commerce storefront, and no brand impersonation, phishing form, or conflicting legal identity was identified in the supplied page analysis. However, multiple external threat detections and a confirmed blacklist designation create a material contradiction to the otherwise ordinary storefront presentation. Browser testing also identified suspicious inline scripts and non-whitelisted outbound POST activity; these are technical risk indicators even though no hidden sensitive form, wallet-drainer behaviour, cloaking, or clipboard hijacking was observed. The domain’s long registration history and sustained archival continuity are positive provenance signals, but they do not neutralise the current reputation-based risk. Sensitive interaction should therefore be treated as unsafe pending independent resolution of the detections.
- The homepage presents a stable Korean printshop catalogue with no observed phishing form or brand-impersonation indicator.
- Browser testing recorded 2 suspicious inline scripts, 2 non-whitelisted external POST requests, and 2 non-whitelisted external XHR requests.
- The domain was registered in 2004 (~22.49 years old), according to the registration record.
- The archive contains 235 snapshots spanning 1998–2026 (29 years tracked), with strong historical continuity and no detected repurposing.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents identifiable commercial disclosures in its footer, including the legal entity “(주)스파이더네트웍스,” a named representative, a business registration reference, and a mail-order business registration reference. The supplied pages do not present a sector licensing claim or licence number; for a printing and e-commerce business, this is a transparency and verification matter rather than standalone evidence of fraud. Independent identity verification remains incomplete, so the on-site company disclosure should not be treated as conclusive proof of the real-world operator. The external broker dataset supplied for comparison did not match the site.
- The homepage footer identifies “(주)스파이더네트웍스,” a representative, a Seoul address, business-registration information, and mail-order registration information.
- The site links to company-introduction, privacy-policy, terms-of-use, and directions pages.
- The site is served from AS3786 (LGDACOM-KR – LG DACOM Corporation, KR).
- Transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by GlobalSign GCC R6 AlphaSSL CA 2025, valid to 2027-03-23.
What to Verify Next
Before any transaction or account activity, an independent registry check should reconcile the entity and mail-order registration presented on the legal pages with official Korean records. The ordering, refund, delivery, and dispute terms should be reviewed and payment protections should be used where available. Until the external detections are independently resolved, activity should remain limited to public or read-only browsing rather than login, credential submission, or financial interaction.
- Official registry verification should use the legal entity and registration references displayed on the site’s footer.
- Order and terms pages should be checked for delivery, refund, cancellation, and dispute provisions before placing an order.
- The external reputation contradiction should be rechecked through independent security channels before permitting sensitive access.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk with a high likelihood of harm from sensitive interaction. Although the website presents a coherent commercial purpose and substantial historical continuity, the confirmed external reputation contradiction dominates the assessment, while the real-world operator remains unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The supplied infrastructure posture does not identify a trusted CDN or WAF layer, so no such protective control can be credited as a mitigating factor. The identified hosting arrangement and valid TLS certificate support transport and network attribution, but neither establishes legitimacy or offsets the external threat detections.
Closing Assessment
Enterprise controls should block or isolate login, credential, payment, and other sensitive interactions with the site until the reputation findings and operator identity have been independently cleared.
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, behaviour in a sandbox, external reputation.
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 - The page sent data to a destination TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_POSTS - The page carried inline scripts written in a style TrustSniffer treats as suspicious.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_SUSPICIOUS_INLINE_SCRIPTS - 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 printshop.co.kr.
- The request stayed on printshop.co.kr. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Whois Corp.(http://whois.co.kr). Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by co.kr, across 3 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2031-03-01. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1998-12-02. Clear
- It is hosted on LGDACOM-KR, from a server in KR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Whois Corp.(http://whois.co.kr) |
|---|---|
| Hosting | LGDACOM-KR - LG DACOM Corporation, KR |
| Country | KR |
| Server IP | 211.172.246.235 |
| Name servers | ns.gabia.co.kr, ns1.gabia.co.kr, ns.gabia.net |
| SSL issuer | GlobalSign GCC R6 AlphaSSL CA 2025 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-03-23 |
| Domain age | 22.49 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2031-03-01 |
| Archive first seen | 1998-12-02 |
| Archive snapshots | 235 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 7 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about printshop.co.kr 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.