Verdict
vatstrading.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 | HTTP 404 Not Found response served by nginx. No site content, links, forms, or monetization present. |
|---|
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 | 21 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Listed as unsafeGoogle | Risk |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 15 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2016240 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | 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 2016.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet, Google, Kaspersky, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
vatstrading.com currently presents only an HTTP 404 “Not Found” response served by nginx, with no visible business description, products, services, forms, or payment requests. Its apparent purpose and operating model therefore cannot be established from the live page.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site presents a critical sensitive-interaction risk because the domain is flagged by multiple external security providers, including a confirmed blacklist signal and malicious classification. This is the decisive contradiction in the assessment, despite the absence of an active login form, wallet connection, external submission, or visible monetization on the captured page. The long registration history and established archival continuity are positive provenance signals, but they do not neutralize the current external threat detections or establish that the present site state is trustworthy. No separate brand-impersonation or conflicting legal-entity identity was observed.
- The external reputation assessment recorded 21 malicious detections from 26 evaluated results, with a major browser-safety service also marking the domain as malicious.
- The homepage returned HTTP 404 and contained only “404 Not Found” and “nginx,” with no links, forms, or commercial content.
- The domain was registered on 2011-08-29 and is approximately 14.98 years old.
- The archive contains 240 snapshots spanning 2016–2026, covering 11 tracked years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The live site does not expose an operating entity, service description, license claim, registration number, or regulatory jurisdiction because the accessible page is an error response. Registration data identifies Vijendra Agnihotri and Vats Trading Company, but the available evidence does not independently verify that either is the operator of the current website. This is an identity-verification limitation rather than proof of misconduct. A broker-intelligence dataset returned no match, which provides no positive regulatory confirmation. The current external security findings remain the governing concern.
- Registration records identify the registrar as BigRock Solutions Ltd., with Vijendra Agnihotri listed as owner and Vats Trading Company as organization.
- The site’s hosting telemetry records AS46606, Unified Layer, US.
- The transport certificate is domain-validated, issued by YR2, and valid through 2026-10-25.
- No license authority or license number is presented in the available site content.
What to Verify Next
Before any login, credential submission, financial transaction, or other sensitive interaction, an institution should independently confirm the operator’s legal identity and authorization through authoritative corporate and regulatory registries. The domain should also be re-evaluated through the organization’s current security controls before access is permitted, and any future replacement of the 404 page should be assessed as a new trust state rather than treated as continuity of the present evidence.
- The accessible homepage provides no operational content against which the claimed service, operator, or authorization can be matched.
- Identity verification remains unverified in the available assessment.
- The external security detections require independent security review before sensitive access is enabled.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical and unsuitable for sensitive interaction. The available evidence does not establish a trustworthy current operating service, and the confirmed external threat signals outweigh the otherwise limited benign observations.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to Unified Layer hosting in the United States, with one identified origin and no CDN or WAF detected. This infrastructure provides no protective edge layer that would mitigate the reputational risk, although hosting architecture alone is not proof of malicious operation.
Closing Assessment
Sensitive use should remain blocked unless independent operator, authorization, and security validation produce a materially different result.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
1 finding contributed to this verdict, raised by analysis engine, external reputation.
01 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 | 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 vatstrading.com.
- The request stayed on vatstrading.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under BigRock Solutions Ltd.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by bigrockservers.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2029-08-29. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2016-02-12. Clear
- It is hosted on UNIFIEDLAYER-AS-1, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | BigRock Solutions Ltd. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | UNIFIEDLAYER-AS-1 - Unified Layer, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 192.185.129.169 |
| Name servers | NS1.MD-HT-3.BIGROCKSERVERS.COM, NS2.MD-HT-3.BIGROCKSERVERS.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-25 |
| Domain age | 14.98 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2029-08-29 |
| Archive first seen | 2016-02-12 |
| Archive snapshots | 240 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 21 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 1 match |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about vatstrading.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.