Verdict
sarancorporation.co.jp 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 | Saran Corporation is a Chennai/Japan-linked exporter of new and used Japanese industrial machinery, offering sourcing, dismantling, packing, shipment, refurbishing and after-sales services, plus a spare-parts marketplace (Saran Mart). Contact and company details are provided; site functions as a B2B supplier/marketplace. |
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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 | 2 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 19 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2007Public 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 2007.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Saran Corporation presents itself as a Chennai/Japan-linked B2B supplier and marketplace for new and used Japanese industrial machinery, spare parts, dismantling, shipment, refurbishing, retrofitting, commissioning, and after-sales services. Its apparent business model is commercial equipment sales supplemented by logistics, consultancy, turnkey projects, and related paid services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s stated machinery-supply purpose is coherent, and its pages do not show a login form, wallet connection, financial-return promotion, or detected brand-impersonation pattern. However, this positive page-level presentation is outweighed by a confirmed external blacklist signal and malicious detections from external reputation checks. These are material contradictions for a site intended to support commercial enquiries or transactions, even though no conflicting legal-entity names, phishing form, or direct impersonation evidence were identified. The domain’s long registration history is a contextual positive, but it does not neutralise the current reputation contradiction or independently verify the operator’s identity.
- The homepage identifies the business as “Saran Corporation” and lists industrial machinery, spare parts, and associated services.
- External reputation checks recorded 2 malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist status.
- The technical registration record shows creation on 2007-04-09, with an age of 19.38 years.
- The homepage analysis found no login form, hidden sensitive form, wallet-drainer behaviour, or brand-impersonation indicator.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site provides company and contact information and describes a conventional B2B equipment-export model, but the real-world operator remains unverified by the available evidence. The site does not present a license claim, licensing authority, or license number; for an industrial machinery exporter this is primarily a disclosure and counterparty-verification gap rather than standalone proof of misconduct. The content is substantial and commercially specific, covering equipment categories such as forging presses, stamping presses, CNC machinery, dismantling, shipping, refurbishing, retrofitting, and after-sales support. The site’s low external authority profile and confirmed reputation contradiction warrant heightened scrutiny of the corporate entity, contracting party, and payment recipient.
- The homepage contains approximately 24,480 characters of business content, one contact-enquiry form, and a catalogue identifying 512 industrial-machinery listings.
- The site’s legal and business presentation identifies Saran Corporation and provides contact details, but no license authority or license number is stated in the supplied pages.
- Hosting is on AS31898, ORACLE-BMC-31898 / Oracle Corporation, US.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by YR1 at DV validation level and is valid until 2026-11-02.
What to Verify Next
Before any commercial engagement, an independent counterparty check should confirm that the legal entity named in quotations, contracts, invoices, and bank instructions is registered in the relevant jurisdiction and is authorised to conduct the proposed export, brokerage, or equipment-related activity. The machinery’s ownership, condition, inspection status, export documentation, shipping terms, warranty obligations, and refund or dispute provisions should be validated through independently sourced records and direct factory or logistics contacts. Payment should use contractual protections and an independently verified beneficiary account; sensitive credentials should not be submitted unless the relevant business relationship has first been established through trusted channels.
- The About, Services, Stock, and Saran Mart content describes equipment sales and paid services but does not independently establish the operator’s legal identity.
- The contact page and homepage provide business contact details suitable for cross-checking through an offline or independently sourced channel.
- The site presents a B2B catalogue and enquiry workflow rather than a verified regulatory or licensing profile.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated sensitive-interaction risk. The site has a coherent commercial presentation and a long-lived domain, but the confirmed external reputation contradiction and lack of independently verified operator identity prevent the available evidence from supporting routine transactional confidence.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to infrastructure hosted by Oracle Corporation in the United States, with no CDN or WAF edge layer identified and no confirmed origin-candidate separation. Transport encryption is present and uses a valid DV certificate, which protects the connection but does not establish the legitimacy of the business or counterparty.
Closing Assessment
Engagement should remain conditional on independent corporate, transaction, equipment, and payment verification, with no sensitive or irreversible action taken until those checks are satisfactorily completed.
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.
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
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 sarancorporation.co.jp.
- The request stayed on sarancorporation.co.jp. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by bluehost.in, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2007-04-22. Clear
- It is hosted on ORACLE-BMC-31898, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | ORACLE-BMC-31898 - Oracle Corporation, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 162.214.80.43 |
| Name servers | ns1.bluehost.in, ns2.bluehost.in |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-02 |
| Domain age | 19.38 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2007-04-22 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about sarancorporation.co.jp 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.