Is vtsholidays.com.my safe?
http://vtsholidays.com.my/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (54 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Newly registered travel-booking domain reuses a licensed Malaysian agency's brand but shows no verifiable operator details
vtsholidays.com.my presents itself as a Sabah tour operator with a booking cart, checkout and a customer account portal, and it links out to social profiles and to the established vtsholidays.com site. The brand it uses matches VTS Holidays Sdn. Bhd., a Malaysian travel agency listed in the MATTA member directory. However, the domain itself is only 11 days old, its business contact is a free Gmail inbox rather than a mailbox on its own domain, and no operator postal address appears on the captured page. Technical checks are clean, but the operator and customer-safety picture is unverified, so the site sits in the moderate-risk band rather than Safe.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 58/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 4 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateThe store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (gmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain.-20 pts
- MinorThe registrable domain is only 11 days old, so the site has no operating history to corroborate the established brand name it uses.
- MinorNo operator postal address is visible on the captured page, despite the brand being associated with a physical agency address.
- MinorThe business contact is a free Gmail inbox rather than a mailbox on the site's own domain.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsIndependent research confirms VTS Holidays Sdn. Bhd. is a MATTA member (MA6494) with company number 1166927-V and KPL licence 8980.
- SupportsSecurity engines returned no malicious or suspicious detections, Safe Browsing returned no warning, and the TLS connection is valid.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 78 to 58 and split those 20 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger. Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
vtsholidays.com.my presents itself as a Sabah tour operator with a booking cart, checkout and a customer account portal, and it links out to social profiles and to the established vtsholidays.com site. The brand it uses matches VTS Holidays Sdn. Bhd., a Malaysian travel agency listed in the MATTA member directory. However, the domain itself is only 11 days old, its business contact is a free Gmail inbox rather than a mailbox on its own domain, and no operator postal address appears on the captured page. Technical checks are clean, but the operator and customer-safety picture is unverified, so the site sits in the moderate-risk band rather than Safe.
A licensed brand name on a domain that is only days old
The site trades under the VTS Holidays name and links to the established vtsholidays.com site, and independent research confirms that VTS Holidays Sdn. Bhd. is a MATTA member with membership number MA6494, company number 1166927-V and KPL licence 8980. That is a real, licensed Malaysian travel agency.
The domain being reviewed, however, is a very recent registration: the registrable domain is 11 days old. A brand-new domain carrying an established agency's name is the central concern here, because it means the site's own history cannot corroborate the identity it claims.
The site's own contact details do not resolve the question. The business contact is a free Gmail inbox (vtsbooking2017@gmail.com) rather than a mailbox on the site's own domain, and no operator postal address is visible on the captured page, even though the official agency is associated with a physical address in Kota Kinabalu.
Clean technical checks do not confirm the operator
The technical layer is clean. Security engines returned 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections across 93 engines, the browser threat feed returned no threat warning, and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection. Nothing in the saved evidence shows malware, phishing or a deceptive download on this domain.
Those results mean no detections were recorded; they do not establish who is operating the site or whether bookings made through it are honoured. The unresolved question is whether vtsholidays.com.my is officially operated by VTS Holidays Sdn. Bhd. or is a secondary or unauthorized domain using the agency's name, and the evidence available does not settle it.
What a visitor actually does on the site
The site is built as a transactional tour shop. Visitors browse Sabah tours and destinations, add items to a cart and proceed to checkout, and can create an account with a username, password, name and birth date to track payment status, track confirmation and rate a tour after it finishes.
The site also links out to third-party destinations, including Facebook, Instagram and TikTok profiles, a WhatsApp contact link, and external sites such as yunshengtravel.com, motac.gov.my and sabahtourism.com. These outbound links are normal for a travel business, but they do not verify that this particular domain is authorized to take bookings or payments under the VTS Holidays name.
Why the score is 58
The store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (gmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 54 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 39 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Unrated
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Unrated
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Unrated
- LevelBlue - Unrated
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
VTS Holidays logo, contact info, navigation menu, and search form for tour packages.
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
VTS Holidays logo, contact info, navigation menu, and search form for tour packages.
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Sabah Travel Agency & Tour Packages | VTS Holidays
- Meta description
We are a Sabah travel agency intends to deliver the Sabah tour packages, Sabah tours especially Semporna tours, hotels, air tickets, and visas.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/about-us/Read
- Contact page/contact/Read
- Checkout/cart/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Sabah Travel Agency & Tour Packages | VTS Holidays
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 54 antivirus results.
What independent research found
2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The registrable domain is only 11 days old, so the site has no operating history to corroborate the established brand name it uses.
- 02The store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (gmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain.
- 03The business contact is a free Gmail inbox rather than a mailbox on the site's own domain.
Web research findings
Independent findings for vtsholidays.com.my, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
- MATTAopen
"VTS Holidays Sdn. Bhd. - MATTA"
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainvtsholidays.com.my
- Redirects tovtsholidays.com.my
- Hosted byInMotion Hosting, Inc.
- Referencesgmpg.org · maps.google.com
Domain Timeline
- Oct 20, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 11 days old when this review was saved.
- Oct 31, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.
vtsholidays.com.my was registered very recently when this review was saved. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, so a young domain whose evidence is mixed or incomplete warrants extra caution.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No contact email uses the site's own domain.
- Business contact uses a free-mail provider (gmail.com).
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
- Phone number listed (+6016 818 6890).
- Links to 20 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
A certificate issued weeks or days before the scan on a domain registered recently is common on short-lived sites, though new legitimate sites look the same.
Certificate issued for *.vtsholidays.com.my.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://vtsholidays.com.my/
- 2206https://vtsholidays.com.my/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (gmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain. · The registrable domain is only 11 days old, so the site has no operating history to corroborate the established brand name it uses.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Oct 31, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 31, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 31, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 31, 2026 |
| Independent research | 2 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 31, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 31, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 31, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 31, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 31, 2026
- Independent research
- Result2 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 31, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Newly registered travel-booking domain reuses a licensed Malaysian agency's brand but shows no verifiable operator details
vtsholidays.com.my presents itself as a Sabah tour operator with a booking cart, checkout and a customer account portal, and it links out to social profiles and to the established vtsholidays.com site. The brand it uses matches VTS Holidays Sdn. Bhd., a Malaysian travel agency listed in the MATTA member directory. However, the domain itself is only 11 days old, its business contact is a free Gmail inbox rather than a mailbox on its own domain, and no operator postal address appears on the captured page. Technical checks are clean, but the operator and customer-safety picture is unverified, so the site sits in the moderate-risk band rather than Safe.
09 · Community
Community
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