Verdict
ralukaofficial.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 | Official artist website for Raluka featuring news/blog posts, music/video listings, photo albums, bio and tour/contact information. Content is informational and promotional for a musical artist. |
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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 | 7.0 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2012Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2012.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
RalukaOfficial.com presents itself as the official website of recording artist Raluka, offering news and blog posts, music releases, videos, photo albums, biographical information, tour details, and contact information for informational and promotional purposes.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The supplied page evidence does not show an identity contradiction, brand impersonation indicator, phishing form, login mechanism, sensitive-data form, wallet function, or financial solicitation. However, this benign presentation is materially outweighed by confirmed external reputation findings: the domain is blacklisted, and multiple evaluated reputation checks reported malicious detections, including a Tier-1 threat detection. The site’s apparent entertainment purpose therefore does not provide sufficient assurance for sensitive interaction. No suspicious contact-email anomaly was identified in the supplied findings.
- The homepage identifies the site as “Raluka - Official Website” and contains artist news, music, videos, photographs, biography, tours, and contact content.
- External reputation checks recorded 7 malicious detections from 12 effective evaluations and a blacklist status supported by 2 external sources.
- Domain registration records show creation on 2019-08-20 and an age of 7 years; the registrar is GoDaddy.com, LLC.
- Archive records show 61 snapshots spanning 2012–2025, with 14 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site appears to operate as an artist-promotion website rather than a regulated financial service. No licensing claim, regulatory authority, or license number is presented in the supplied site content; this is a disclosure gap for any commercial activity involving merchandise, ticketing, or other payments, but it is not by itself evidence of a scam. The available identity linkage is only likely rather than independently verified, and the absence of a broker match provides no legal or regulatory conclusion. The site uses transport encryption, but the certificate is domain-validated rather than an identity-validated organizational certificate.
- The homepage and navigation present entertainment content and tour/contact information, with no stated license authority or license number.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by WE1, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-09-20.
- The site’s observed hosting organization is CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- The domain registrar is GoDaddy.com, LLC, with registration expiring on 2026-08-20.
What to Verify Next
Independent confirmation should be obtained from established artist-management or social channels that are not reached solely through the assessed domain. Any ticket, merchandise, donation, or other payment destination should be checked as a separate merchant or event entity, including its legal name, refund terms, and payment-protection arrangements. Until the external reputation finding is resolved through trusted independent channels, access should remain limited to passive viewing and no credentials, payment details, or other sensitive information should be submitted.
- The homepage links to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube profiles that can be checked independently for consistent domain and artist affiliation.
- The assessed page contains no login form, hidden sensitive form, external password form, or wallet-connect function.
- The site’s stated purpose is informational artist promotion, while any separate commercial destination should therefore be evaluated independently.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk with a clear sensitive-interaction concern. The professional-looking entertainment content and absence of page-level phishing mechanics do not offset the confirmed external reputation contradictions, and the site should not be treated as trustworthy for credentials, payments, or other sensitive activity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is delivered through Cloudflare’s CDN/WAF, with only CDN edge infrastructure observed; this provides a mitigating layer against direct exposure of the hosting environment but does not establish site legitimacy or neutralize the external reputation findings.
- Served from AS13335, CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- Observed edge IP: 104.21.46.187; all 4 observed IP addresses were CDN edge addresses.
- The origin server IP was not observable, and no origin candidate was identified.
- TLS uses issuer WE1 with DV validation and validity through 2026-09-20.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users should restrict activity to passive viewing until the domain’s external reputation status and official affiliation have been independently resolved; credentials, payments, and other sensitive interactions should not proceed in the interim.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-19 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 | 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 ralukaofficial.com.
- The request stayed on ralukaofficial.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-08-20. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2012-12-23. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3031::6815:2ebb |
| Name servers | DAKOTA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, LANA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-20 |
| Domain age | 7.00 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-08-20 |
| Archive first seen | 2012-12-23 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| 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 ralukaofficial.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.