Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
ansemblackbull.io 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 | 5 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 0 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 2 months oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Web archive | Archived since 20261 snapshot | 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 2026.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
The website at ansemblackbull.io presents itself, through its page title "The Black Bull | $ANSEM", as a token-themed web property built around an "$ANSEM" ticker. The homepage is a text-rich single entry page of substantial length. The supplied evidence does not establish a concrete product, service or operator behind it, so its apparent purpose is promotion of, or engagement with, a crypto-asset-style brand. The domain was registered only a couple of months ago.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
Contradictory signals are present and decisive. The domain is currently blacklisted by third-party reputation sources. Several independent security engines classify it as malicious, more rate it suspicious, and one tier-one security vendor is among those flagging it. Additional external detections are recorded without a specified category, so the nature of the abuse cannot be narrowed further. No brand impersonation, no conflicting legal identities and no confirmed phishing page were identified, so the risk rests on the reputation findings rather than on a named impersonated brand. Behavioural testing adds secondary context. The page sent data via background requests and form submissions to several third-party destinations outside the site's expected set, including a majority of its external submissions. Wallet-connection prompts, clipboard tampering, hidden forms, content cloaking and password submission to external hosts were not observed. The page also appeared to have no meaningful history before this period. A token-themed brand on a very new domain that carries blacklist hits is a pattern frequently associated with pump-and-dump promotion, fake-airdrop lures and credential or wallet harvesting. This pattern is a risk profile and not proof of intent. Evidence:
- Homepage and reputation sources: multiple engines report the domain as malicious (five) or suspicious (three), including a tier-one vendor, and an external blacklist listing is confirmed.
- Homepage behaviour: three of five external form or data submissions during testing went to destinations outside the expected set, alongside heavy external background requests.
- Domain provenance: registered 2026-08-24 (~0.17 years old), about two months before this assessment.
- Web-archive depth: a single archive snapshot, dated 2026, with one year tracked. This is the only archive record and shows no earlier history.
Regulatory Verification Notes
No licensing, registration or corporate-entity information appears in the evidence for this site, and the on-page disclosure position is unclear. In a token-themed context this is a verification gap. Taken alone it would not indicate a scam, but here it adds to the reputation findings above. The site has no match in broker-reputation datasets, so there is no third-party regulatory or reputational context to offset the blacklist findings. The domain is registered through NICENIC International Group Co., Limited, and the registrant is shown only generically. The site uses a valid certificate, but this confirms only encrypted transport. A certificate of this type does not validate the operator. Evidence:
- Homepage: no operator, licence or registration details appear in the supplied evidence.
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by WE1 (domain-validated, DV), valid to 2027-01-20.
- Hosting: served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- Identity checks: the operator's real-world identity could not be tied to any known brand or person.
What to Verify Next
Before any engagement, independent checks should confirm whether any real organisation stands behind the "$ANSEM" brand. These include the legal entity name, jurisdiction and any financial-services registration, checked in the relevant public registry and not through links on the site. Any token contract address, social profile or promotional claim seen here should be cross-checked against the official channels of the genuine project or personal brand it appears to reference. Official support and contact channels should be confirmed through an independent, offline route. The domain's blacklist status should also be rechecked directly with the listing sources, since such entries can change. Evidence:
- Homepage: the "$ANSEM" ticker and "The Black Bull" branding require independent attribution to a genuine project.
- Domain record: the registration is recent, so no long-standing brand association can be assumed.
- Reputation sources: the current listings are the baseline against which any delisting or remediation should be judged.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence places this website in a high-risk posture. Confirmed blacklist findings, the very recent registration and the absence of any verifiable operator identity converge on a conclusion that the site is not suitable for sensitive interaction. Technical hygiene and stable page behaviour are noted, but they do not offset the reputation evidence.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is delivered through Cloudflare's CDN and WAF, and every observed address is a Cloudflare edge address. The origin server was not visible. Cloudflare's presence slightly mitigates exposure, but because only the edge is visible, the hosting cannot be independently verified, and page content could be swapped rapidly without a trace. The infrastructure is a mitigating factor only and cannot offset the reputation findings. A sparse subdomain footprint on a young domain is an unconfirmed heuristic only.
Closing Assessment
Account login, credential entry, wallet connection and any payment or token purchase should be avoided. At most, the site should be viewed in a read-only manner, from a disposable or isolated browser, with no downloads. Any link or promotion pointing to this domain should be treated as untrusted until its listings are cleared and an accountable operator is independently confirmed.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-26 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 - The domain is young and has almost nothing else set up around it.Hosting and network
rule:DNS_SPARSE_YOUNG_DOMAIN
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
- The page sent data to a destination TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_POSTS
05 Registration and ownership
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
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 ansemblackbull.io.
- The request stayed on ansemblackbull.io. 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 2027-08-24. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-08-31. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3036::ac43:85ae |
| Name servers | gabe.ns.cloudflare.com, georgia.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 | 2027-01-20 |
| Domain age | 0.17 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-08-24 |
| Archive first seen | 2026-08-31 |
| Archive snapshots | 1 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 5 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about ansemblackbull.io 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.