Verdict
008008.cc 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 | Short Chinese-language gambling landing content for 'K8' promoting registration bonuses and sports/electronic gaming. Minimal context, promotional phrasing encouraging sign-up/deposit. |
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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 | 20 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 2 months oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Web archive | Archived since 2011127 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: less than 1 year (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2011.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet, Kaspersky, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
The website at 008008.cc is a short Chinese-language promotional landing page for “K8,” presenting online casino and gambling services that combine sports and electronic gaming with registration incentives and wagering funded through user deposits.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site presents a material scam and sensitive-interaction risk because external reputation checks recorded malicious detections and confirmed blacklist status across multiple sources. The homepage is exceptionally sparse, using promotional language such as “registration gifts” and an “approximately billion-level prize pool” without identifying a clear product, operator, or supporting service detail. The deposit-before-service model and aggressive promotional framing increase exposure to financial loss, while no brand impersonation or conflicting legal-entity names were observed; the confirmed reputation contradiction is nevertheless sufficient to require a strongly defensive posture.
- The homepage contains approximately 45 characters of visible text and promotes “K8,” registration rewards, sports/electronic gaming, and a large prize pool.
- External reputation telemetry recorded 20 malicious detections, with Fortinet, Kaspersky, and Sophos among the flagged providers; blacklist status was confirmed by two sources.
- The current registration record lists 2026 and an age of approximately 0.19 years; the historical record contains 127 snapshots spanning 2011–2025 across 15 tracked years, establishing a material provenance discrepancy that does not independently verify continuity of the present operator.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available landing content does not disclose a licensing authority, license number, or clearly identified operating entity. That is a regulatory and transparency verification gap rather than, by itself, proof of fraud; in this case it compounds the external reputation findings and the unverified connection between the site and a real-world operator. The available third-party broker dataset contained no match, which provides no regulatory endorsement and does not offset the absence of on-page licensing evidence.
- The homepage identifies the service through the “K8” branding but does not provide a corporate legal name, licensing authority, or license number.
- The site’s current registration record lists Spaceship, Inc. as registrar and a creation date of 2026-06-07.
- The site is served through AS13335, Cloudflare, Inc.; its TLS certificate is issued by WE1 using Domain Validation (DV) and is valid through 2026-11-04.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, an institution should independently confirm the operator’s legal identity and gambling authorization with the relevant jurisdictional regulator, using registry information obtained outside the website. Payment arrangements, withdrawal terms, dispute mechanisms, age and jurisdiction restrictions, and the beneficiary of any deposit should be validated before funds are committed. Official support and contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent, offline route, and any account or payment activity should be subject to heightened monitoring.
- The homepage is promotional but provides no clear product description or supporting credentials for the gambling service.
- The observed business model explicitly relies on user deposits and wagering, with registration incentives used to drive sign-up.
- The site had no login form, sensitive form, wallet connection, or password-external form during the observed interaction, but this does not validate future destinations or transaction flows.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk, with the site unsuitable for credentials, account access, or financial interaction on the available evidence. Apparent service legitimacy is not established, and the combination of confirmed external threat detections, sparse promotional content, and unresolved operator attribution warrants treating the website as hostile to sensitive use.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection provides a legitimate network-protection layer and limits direct exposure of the hosting environment, but it is only a mitigating technical control and does not establish that the underlying service or operator is trustworthy. All observed addresses were Cloudflare edge infrastructure, with no origin candidate identified during the analysis.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate institutional action is to block or isolate sensitive interaction with the site and require independent legal, payment, and operator verification before any exception is considered.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-17 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, behaviour in a sandbox, external reputation.
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 - The page sent data to a destination TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_POSTS - 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 008008.cc.
- The request stayed on 008008.cc. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Spaceship, Inc.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-06-07. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2011-01-12. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Spaceship, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3033::ac43:cdae |
| Name servers | TIA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, TITAN.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-04 |
| Domain age | 0.19 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-06-07 |
| Archive first seen | 2011-01-12 |
| Archive snapshots | 127 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 20 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about 008008.cc 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.