Verdict
quickridecabs.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 | Quick Ride Cabs is a regional taxi and tour operator in Himachal Pradesh offering taxi services, tour packages, hotel pickups, airport transfers and school transport. The site lists services and social contact channels with no evidence of financial investment schemes or credential harvesting. |
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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 | 15 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 1.5 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2025Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: 1 to 3 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2025.
- 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.
Quick Ride Cabs presents itself as a regional taxi and tour operator serving Himachal Pradesh, offering local taxi services, airport transfers, hotel pickups, tour packages, temple trips, restaurant-related travel support, and school transport through customer booking and contact channels.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content is consistent with a local transport business and contains no login form, credential-collection mechanism, financial investment solicitation, cryptocurrency feature, or detected brand impersonation. However, this benign presentation is outweighed by confirmed external threat detections and a confirmed blacklist status, including detections attributed to two major security providers. The result is a material risk to sensitive interactions, particularly payment, credential, or account-related activity. No separate identity inconsistency, phishing indicator, or impersonation finding was observed in the supplied page evidence.
- The homepage describes taxi, tour, airport-transfer, hotel-pickup, pilgrimage, and school-transport services rather than financial products.
- Browser testing recorded no login form, hidden form, password submission, wallet activity, clipboard hijacking, or external posting behavior.
- External reputation telemetry recorded 15 malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist status; the public Safe Browsing result was not malicious.
- Domain registration telemetry records creation on 2025-02-28 and an age of 1.47 years; the archive record contains 6 snapshots across 1 year tracked, with first seen 2025-02-28 and last seen 2025-07-13.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The website operates as a transport and tour service and does not claim a specific license, registration number, or licensing authority in the supplied pages. That is a disclosure gap requiring independent verification, not by itself evidence of a scam. The available identity linkage is only assessed as likely rather than independently verified, so the on-page business presentation should not be treated as proof of the real-world operator. The absence of a matching broker record provides no regulatory endorsement or adverse finding.
- The homepage and service pages identify the business as “Quick Ride Cabs” and describe Himachal taxi and tour services, but do not display a license number or licensing authority.
- The site links to Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, and Instagram, while its contact page is presented as a booking and communications channel.
- The site is hosted on AS146943, TIER4CLOU-AS – Tier 4 Cloud Services, IN.
- TLS uses issuer YR1 with DV validation and is valid to 2026-11-14.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, an independent party should confirm the operator’s business registration and any applicable local transport or tourism authorization through the relevant Indian or Himachal Pradesh registry. Contact details should be validated through an independently sourced business listing or offline channel, and any booking payment should use a payment method with dispute and chargeback protection. Credentials should not be reused on this site, and material transactions should remain subject to confirmation of the specific vehicle, driver, itinerary, cancellation terms, and payment recipient.
- The site’s homepage and contact pathway provide the stated service and booking context for those checks.
- The terms, contact, and service pages should be checked for the legal contracting entity, cancellation terms, refund process, and payment recipient.
- The site’s transport encryption is DV-only, which authenticates encrypted delivery but does not independently establish the operator’s legal identity.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical and unsuitable for sensitive interaction. Although the site presents a coherent local-service model and its observed browser behavior did not show credential-harvesting mechanics, the confirmed external reputation contradictions control the assessment. The operator identity remains only likely, not independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single apparent origin address rather than a CDN edge, with no CDN or WAF detected. This provides little infrastructure-based mitigation against the confirmed reputation concern; the hosting environment is AS146943 operated by TIER4CLOU-AS – Tier 4 Cloud Services, IN, and the resolved address is 185.131.53.219.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate institutional posture is to suspend credential, payment, and other sensitive interactions until the operator, authorization, contact channels, and transaction protections have been independently confirmed. Any engagement should be limited to low-risk information review while those checks remain outstanding.
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
- 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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 39% |
- Trusted social count=3
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 quickridecabs.com.
- The request stayed on quickridecabs.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by leapswitch.com, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-02-28. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2025-02-28. Clear
- It is hosted on TIER4CLOU-AS, from a server in IN. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com |
|---|---|
| Hosting | TIER4CLOU-AS - Tier 4 Cloud Services, IN |
| Country | IN |
| Server IP | 185.131.53.219 |
| Name servers | DNS1.LEAPSWITCH.COM, DNS2.LEAPSWITCH.COM, DNS3.LEAPSWITCH.COM, DNS4.LEAPSWITCH.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-14 |
| Domain age | 1.47 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-02-28 |
| Archive first seen | 2025-02-28 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 15 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about quickridecabs.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.