Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
airdrop-is-live.netlify.app shows high-risk / scam indicators.
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.
| Malware engines | 18 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 1% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 4 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 7 days oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Web archive | Archived since 20261 snapshot | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 | 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 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 is a single-page site on a free Netlify-hosted subdomain whose name advertises a live "airdrop". The page title presents itself as the OpenSea NFT marketplace, which does not match the domain it runs on. The site gives a visitor a token-giveaway style landing page. Its apparent purpose is to draw visitors into an airdrop claim flow under a well-known marketplace brand.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The assessment is clearly cautionary, and the contradictions are confirmed. Several major security vendors currently flag the domain as malicious, and an external blacklist listing is active. The domain is therefore blacklisted, and that listing is decisive. The page also carries the title of a well-known NFT marketplace while being served from a generic free-hosting subdomain with an urgency-style "airdrop is live" name. That is the standard presentation of a crypto-giveaway lure. Whether the site is a deliberate lure or a compromised page, it should be treated as a credential- and wallet-harvesting risk. The sandbox did not observe wallet-connection attempts, clipboard manipulation, hidden forms, cloaking or credential posts to external hosts. This is a point in the site's favour, but it does not offset the reputation findings. Interaction recorded a high share of requests going to third-party origins, along with several client-side script errors. A newly created domain with no meaningful history fits the usual short-lived campaign pattern. Some abuse reports also exist against a shared edge address of the cloud provider. They relate to shared infrastructure rather than this site specifically, so they add little weight of their own. Evidence:
- Homepage: the page title presents the site as the OpenSea marketplace while the domain is an unrelated free-hosting subdomain with an "airdrop is live" name.
- Domain registration: the domain is only about 9 days old (first observed 2026).
- Web archive: 1 snapshot, dated 2026, so about 1 year tracked with no earlier history.
- Homepage behavior: three sandbox runs completed with no wallet-drainer, clipboard-hijack, hidden-form or cloaking behavior detected.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The real-world operator of the site could not be independently connected to any brand, company or individual, and the identity assessment remains unresolved. Nothing supports the marketplace identity the page title presents. The site is not backed by any third-party regulatory or licensing record, and no broker-reputation entry exists for it. The valid transport certificate is an organisation-validated certificate issued to the hosting platform (Netlify), not to the operator of this site. It shows that the platform's infrastructure is sound but says nothing about who runs this page. Third-party reputational signals are therefore the only meaningful regulatory-adjacent evidence, and they are adverse. Evidence:
- Transport encryption: the TLS certificate was issued by DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 (OV), with subject organisation Netlify, Inc, valid to 2027-03-19.
- Hosting: the site is served from AS16509 (AMAZON-02, Amazon.com, Inc., US).
- Identity analysis: the site could not be linked to a verified real-world entity.
What to Verify Next
Any interaction with the site should be abandoned unless the claim can be confirmed independently. An airdrop or giveaway should be checked only through the official channels of the genuine brand it invokes, reached by typing the known address directly or through the brand's verified social profiles. Links shared through messages, social posts or ads should not be used for this check. Anyone who has already interacted with the page should review wallet permissions and token approvals, revoke any unexpected ones, and change reused passwords. The official support channels of the brand concerned should be confirmed through an independent route. Evidence:
- Homepage: the page promotes a live airdrop under a marketplace brand name that its domain does not match.
- Reputation: multiple independent security vendors flag the domain, so no third-party reassurance is available.
- Registration: the very recent creation date leaves no track record to support the site's claims.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high risk. Confirmed adverse threat-intelligence detections dominate the assessment, and a brand-mismatched airdrop presentation on a brand-new domain reinforces them. The technical hygiene of the platform it runs on carries no weight against these findings.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is delivered through Amazon's cloud and content-delivery edge, and all observed addresses are edge servers, so the origin host was not visible. This is the standard protective setup of a mainstream hosting platform, and it mitigates exposure to infrastructure-level attacks. It cannot offset the reputation findings. Edge-only visibility also makes independent hosting verification difficult and allows content to be swapped quickly without a change in address.
Closing Assessment
The site should not be used for login, wallet connection, credential entry or any financial action. At most it should be viewed read-only from an isolated environment, with nothing downloaded or signed.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-22 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 made many background requests to other domains while it was open.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_XHR_HEAVY
05 Registration and ownership
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 4 reports on hosting IP 2a05:d014:58f:6200::258 (Amazon Data Services Ireland Ltd, Content Delivery Network), 1% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| 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 airdrop-is-live.netlify.app.
- The request stayed on airdrop-is-live.netlify.app. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-10-12. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2a05:d014:58f:6200::258 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| CDN / edge network | Detected (aws) |
| Resolved IP addresses | 4 |
| Edge IP addresses | 4 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-03-19 |
| Domain age | 0.02 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2026-10-12 |
| Archive snapshots | 1 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 18 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 1% confidence, 4 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about airdrop-is-live.netlify.app 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.