Verdict
tradingengineers.in 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 | Trading Engineers is a company website for an established Indian manufacturer and contractor (since 2000) offering street light poles, decorative poles, LED and solar solutions, CCTV, and civil/electrical project services. Contact phone, email and office addresses are present. |
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Compromised host notice
A threat-intelligence feed listed a file on tradingengineers.in as hosting scam content (last seen 2026-09-30). TrustSniffer's evidence indicates that the site itself was compromised: the listing concerns a file placed on it by someone else, and the site's owner is most likely a victim, not the actor.
Until the file is removed, downloading anything from this site is not safe. If you run this site, remove the listed file, update the site software and its plugins, change its passwords and review it for other unauthorized changes.
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 | 3% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 1 report; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 6.3 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2021Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | 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 2021.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Trading Engineers is a corporate website presenting an Indian manufacturer and contractor for decorative and octagonal street-light poles, LED lighting, solar installations, CCTV, and associated civil and electrical project services, with an apparent B2B model based on product supply, contracted projects, and turnkey installation work.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s pages present a conventional corporate-manufacturer profile and the available page analysis found no brand-impersonation, phishing, login-form, or sensitive-data collection indicators. However, this benign presentation is outweighed by confirmed external blacklist status and multiple malicious detections associated with the assessed domain. The site’s real-world operator remains unverified, so the on-page corporate presentation should not be treated as proof of identity. A separate abuse report concerns shared hosting infrastructure and is attributed to the provider IP rather than conclusively to the site itself; it is therefore contextual rather than site-specific proof. No identity contradiction involving multiple legal-entity names was observed.
- The homepage presents Trading Engineers as a manufacturer of poles, lighting, and solar solutions and contains no detected impersonation or phishing indicator.
- The contact page provides a telephone number, email address, and office-address information, but these details do not independently verify the operating entity.
- The assessed domain has confirmed blacklist status, with three malicious and one suspicious external detections recorded.
- Domain registration evidence records creation on 2020-07-02 and an age of approximately 6.25 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available pages describe commercial manufacturing and contracting activities rather than a regulated financial service. The About and homepage content identifies the business as Trading Engineers and gives company-history claims, including formation in 2000 and a “since 1994” operating statement; those dates should be reconciled before relying on the corporate history. No licensing claim or registration number was identified in the supplied site content, leaving the legal-entity and regulatory-disclosure position unclear. This is a verification gap, not by itself evidence of fraud. The available broker-reputation context contains no matching record, but that absence does not resolve the blacklist finding or independently establish legitimacy.
- The About content states that Trading Engineers was formed in 2000, while the homepage states “since 1994.”
- The supplied legal and corporate content contains no identified licence number or regulatory-registration reference.
- The domain was registered through HOSTINGER operations, UAB; the registration expiry is 2031-07-02.
- The site’s transport certificate is issued by YR2 with DV validation and is valid to 2026-12-01.
What to Verify Next
Before any commercial engagement, procurement team members should confirm the company’s legal registration, tax or corporate identifiers, and any sector-specific approvals through the relevant Indian government or industry registries. The listed office locations and telephone channels should be validated independently, preferably through records not supplied by the website. Contracting parties should also request verifiable project references, quotations issued from the confirmed corporate entity, and payment terms that preserve ordinary commercial remedies. The blacklist finding should be resolved with the site operator and independently reassessed before credentials, confidential information, or funds are exchanged.
- The Contact page supplies the business contact details requiring independent confirmation.
- The About and Services pages describe the operating history and service scope requiring corroboration through external corporate records.
- The site offers a “Get Quote” pathway, making entity and payment-detail validation relevant before procurement activity.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated risk for sensitive interaction. The website has a plausible corporate presentation and no detected on-page phishing mechanics, but confirmed external threat detections and unresolved operator verification materially outweigh those positive content signals. It should not presently be treated as an established and independently authenticated business counterparty.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single origin address hosted by AQUIRYN-LLC in the United States on AS32561, with no CDN or WAF edge layer detected. The valid DV TLS certificate provides transport encryption, but it does not authenticate the underlying business identity; the direct-hosting arrangement therefore offers limited infrastructure-based reassurance.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate posture is to restrict activity to non-sensitive review until the corporate entity, contact channels, regulatory position, and external reputation findings have been independently resolved. Any subsequent engagement should use controlled commercial processes, verified counterparties, and payment protections proportionate to the transaction.
Written analysis generated 2026-09-30 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
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 1 report on hosting IP 23.153.104.2 (Aquiryn LLC, Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 3% 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 tradingengineers.in.
- The request stayed on tradingengineers.in. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under HOSTINGER operations, UAB. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by asurahosting.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2031-07-02. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-12-27. Clear
- It is hosted on AQUIRYN-LLC, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | HOSTINGER operations, UAB |
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| Hosting | AQUIRYN-LLC - Aquiryn LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 23.153.104.2 |
| Name servers | ns1.asurahosting.com, ns2.asurahosting.com |
| CDN / edge network | Not detected |
| Resolved IP addresses | 1 |
| Edge IP addresses | 0 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 1 |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-01 |
| Domain age | 6.25 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2031-07-02 |
| Archive first seen | 2021-12-27 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 3 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 3% confidence, 1 report | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about tradingengineers.in 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.