---
title: "Is aave-fi.live a Scam? Trust Score 0/100"
source: TrustSniffer
type: Website trust & fraud report
subject: "aave-fi.live"
verdict: "Critical Risk"
title: "Is aave-fi.live a Scam? Risk Report, Score 0/100"
trust_score: 0
classification_confidence: 70
canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/aave-fi.live
assessed: 2026-10-27
---

# Is aave-fi.live a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 0/100

## Verdict


**Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 0/100.** aave-fi.live shows high-risk / scam indicators.

This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.

Labels: Sensitive Interaction Risk, Governance Risk

Assessed 2026-10-27 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 70%.

## Evidence status and limitations


Evidence completeness: Not recorded

- 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.

| Check | Result | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Malware engines | 19 flagged it (VirusTotal) | Risk |
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidence (AbuseIPDB, 0 reports; shared hosting inflates reports) | Clear |
| Domain age | 3 months old (Most scam domains are under a year old) | Risk |
| Web archive | Archived since 2026 (1 snapshot) | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by WE1) | Noted |

## The page as captured


![Screenshot of the aave-fi.live homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/aave-fi.live/screenshots/first.png)

_What aave-fi.live served when TrustSniffer captured it on 2026-10-27. The page may look different now._

## Key findings


- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: less than 1 year (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2026.
- 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.

This website operates on a recently registered domain under the ".live" top-level domain. Its name closely resembles the branding of the well-known Aave decentralised-finance lending protocol. When automatically visited, the homepage did not deliver ordinary content. It returned a security interstitial titled as a suspected phishing page, served through the site's edge protection layer. Its apparent purpose is a crypto-finance front end styled after an established DeFi brand. The visible content gives no confirmation of any genuine product or operator.


### Scam/Impersonation Risk

This is a high-risk site, and the contradictions are decisive. Several major security vendors independently flag the domain as malicious, and it is **blacklisted** by external reputation sources, which triggered an automatic cap on its trust assessment. The domain name pairs a famous protocol's name with a short suffix on an uncommon top-level domain, a recognised lookalike pattern for brand-impersonation and credential-harvesting campaigns. The site is also absent from DeFi protocol registries, so nothing supports a link to the genuine protocol. Browser-behaviour testing found no wallet-connection prompts, wallet-drainer routines, clipboard tampering or hidden forms. That absence is not reassuring, because the interstitial may have kept the real payload from loading during testing. The sessions did show unusually heavy third-party request traffic and a high rate of script errors, which fit an unstable or hastily assembled page. No conflicting legal identities were found. The concern rests on reputation, naming and domain age, not on contradictory corporate claims. Evidence:

- Homepage: the visitor-facing page is a phishing-warning interstitial, and the domain name echoes an established DeFi lending brand.
- Domain registered 2026-08-01 (~0.24 years old), so it has about three months of existence; web archive holds 1 snapshot, dated 2026-08-03.
- Sandbox runs: no wallet-connect, drainer, clipboard-write or hidden-form behaviour, but 21 external XHR calls, 9 external POSTs and 18 console errors across 3 runs.

### Regulatory Verification Notes

No licensing, registration or legal-entity information could be associated with the site, and no third-party regulatory source vouches for it. No broker-reputation dataset recognises it either. The ownership of the domain is opaque, so no operator can be tied to it. This is a basic accountability gap, not a mere administrative detail. Any financial activity would run through an unidentified party with no regulatory recourse. Legitimacy cannot be inferred from the site's technical hygiene, which is only baseline. The valid certificate is a domain-validated one and proves control of the domain only, not the identity of the operator. Evidence:

- Registrar of record is NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED; domain expires 2027-08-01, a one-year registration.
- TLS certificate issued by WE1 (DV), valid to 2026-12-29, about 63 days remaining.
- Served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US), registry ARIN.

### What to Verify Next

The only sound step is to treat this domain as unconfirmed and compare it against the genuine protocol's official channels. Anyone who reached this domain through a message, advertisement or social post should trace that source and confirm independently that it is legitimate. Official links should be obtained from the protocol's documented channels or a trusted aggregator, not from the referring message. Any wallet that interacted with this domain should have its token approvals reviewed and revoked where needed. Support or contact channels should be confirmed through an independent route. Evidence:

- DeFi registry lookup: the domain has no listing as a recognised protocol front end.
- Domain name: a hyphenated suffix is appended to a recognised brand name, a spelling that differs from the genuine protocol's official domain.
- Homepage: the interstitial gives no on-page route to confirm an operator.

### Summary Verdict

The assessment is critically low and the posture is high-risk. Independent threat detections, a lookalike naming pattern and a very young domain converge on a site that appears to be set up to exploit a trusted DeFi brand. No evidence of genuine, verifiable operation offsets this. The real-world operator remains unidentified.


### Infrastructure Integrity

The site sits behind Cloudflare's CDN and WAF. All four observed addresses are edge servers, so the origin host is not visible and cannot be independently checked. Protection and bot-challenge controls are active, which makes the technical setup professional-looking. This is a mitigating factor only. Anyone can use it, and it cannot offset the external threat detections. The edge-only visibility also means the content behind it could be swapped quickly without any change in the public network profile.


### Closing Assessment

The site should not be used for account login, wallet connection, credential entry or any financial transaction. Read-only viewing, if needed at all, should be done in an isolated environment. Anyone who has already interacted with it should secure their credentials and wallet permissions and report the domain to the relevant security channels.


_Written analysis generated 2026-10-27 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report._

## What the analysis found

5 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by external reputation, hosting and network, history in the web archive, behaviour in a sandbox, registration and ownership.

### 01 External reputation
- 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`)

### 02 Hosting and network
- The domain was registered less than three months ago. (Hosting and network `rule:DNS_NEW_DOMAIN_90D`)

### 03 History in the web archive
- The web archive has almost no record of this domain, which fits a site that is new. (History in the web archive `rule:ARCH_PEN_YOUNG_AND_SPARSE`)

### 04 Behaviour in a sandbox
- Most of what the page loaded came from other domains rather than from this one. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_HIGH`)
- The page produced an unusually high number of errors while it ran. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_CONSOLE_ERRORS_HIGH`)

### 05 Registration and ownership
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete. (Registration and ownership `rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE`)

## Identity verification


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Status | UNKNOWN |
| Identity score | 50/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 30% |

- AI page analysis unavailable (page captured; identity not AI-verified)

_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 aave-fi.live.

- The request stayed on aave-fi.live. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear)
- Registration is published under NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED. (Clear)
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. (Noted)
- The registration is paid up to 2027-08-01. (Noted)
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-08-03. (Clear)
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. (Noted)

## Domain intelligence


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Registrar | NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED |
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3037::6815:35f2 |
| Name servers | tom.ns.cloudflare.com, ximena.ns.cloudflare.com |
| CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) |
| Resolved IP addresses | 4 |
| Edge IP addresses | 4 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-29 |
| Domain age | 0.24 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-08-01 |
| Archive first seen | 2026-08-03 |
| Archive snapshots | 1 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 19 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports \| Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |

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A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about aave-fi.live 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.

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*Source: [TrustSniffer](https://trustsniffer.com/report/aave-fi.live) — independent automated trust & fraud analysis. Cite as https://trustsniffer.com/report/aave-fi.live · assessed 2026-10-27.*