--- title: "Is apedrop-distro.com a Scam? Trust Score 0/100" source: TrustSniffer type: Website trust & fraud report subject: "apedrop-distro.com" verdict: "Critical Risk" title: "Is apedrop-distro.com a Scam? Risk Report, Score 0/100" trust_score: 0 classification_confidence: 75 canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/apedrop-distro.com assessed: 2026-10-29 --- # Is apedrop-distro.com a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 0/100 ## Verdict **Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 0/100.** apedrop-distro.com 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 2026-10-29 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 75%. ## 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 | 10 flagged it (VirusTotal) | Risk | | Google Safe Browsing | Listed as unsafe (Google) | Risk | | 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 apedrop-distro.com homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/apedrop-distro.com/screenshots/first.png) _What apedrop-distro.com served when TrustSniffer captured it on 2026-10-29. 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, Google, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution. This website is a recently registered domain whose name suggests a token-distribution or "drop" service. Its front page was not available to an automated visitor. Instead of site content, the page returned a security interstitial titled as a suspected-phishing warning, with only a small amount of text behind it. The analysis therefore found no published products, terms, or company description. The apparent purpose is unconfirmed, but the naming pattern and the warning page are typical of campaigns that lure visitors into claiming or "distributing" crypto assets. ### Scam/Impersonation Risk Contradictory signals are present, and they are serious. Browser safe-browsing protection classifies the domain as a social-engineering threat, and a substantial number of independent security engines, including several top-tier vendors, mark it as malicious or suspicious. Together these amount to a confirmed **blacklist** condition. The front page now serves a phishing-warning interstitial in place of ordinary content. No brand impersonation and no conflicting legal identities were observed, but the site's own text was too limited to test for either. The sandbox did not detect wallet-drainer behaviour, clipboard manipulation, hidden forms, or externally submitted password forms across three runs. That absence does not offset the external detections. The sessions did show a very high share of outbound traffic to third-party hosts, many page errors, and large post-interaction DOM changes. These are consistent with a heavily scripted page and add to the cautionary picture. The domain's age and its single archive capture mean there is no track record of benign operation. Evidence: - Homepage: capture returned an HTTP 403 bot-challenge page titled as a suspected-phishing warning, with about 400 characters of text. - Threat intelligence: safe-browsing match for social engineering, plus 10 malicious and 3 suspicious detections from security engines. - Domain provenance: registered 2026-07-28 (~0.25 years old). - Web archive: 1 snapshot, in 2026 (1 year tracked), so there is no earlier history. ### Regulatory Verification Notes No legal, licensing, or identity pages could be assessed, and no regulatory standing could be linked to the operator. No broker-reputation match exists, so there is no third-party regulatory context either way. The real-world operator is unidentified, and registrant details are incomplete, which is a case of **ownership opacity**. That is an administrative limitation and not an identity contradiction. It does not itself prove wrongdoing, but with a service that appears to solicit token or wallet interactions, the lack of any disclosed entity, licence, or registration is a material gap. A valid certificate does not change this, because domain-validated certificates are issued to any domain holder without checking who operates it. Evidence: - Hosting: served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US). - Transport security: TLS certificate issued by WE1, domain-validated (DV), valid to 2026-12-24. - Registrar: NICENIC International Group Co., Limited; registration runs to 2027-07-28. ### What to Verify Next No verification step can make this domain safe to use while the threat detections stand. The useful checks concern where the site came from and whether it is being used to impersonate something. Any referral link, message, or advertisement that led to this domain should be traced to its source. The claimed project or brand should be checked through its officially published channels, reached independently of this domain. Any wallet approvals or credentials already given to this site should be reviewed. Reported abuse should be tracked and the domain re-checked later, since a false positive or a cleaned compromise would show up as delisting by the flagging parties. Evidence: - Homepage: the warning interstitial gives no site-specific claim that could be checked, so the referral source is the only available lead. - Reputation: the flags come from several independent sources, so a single delisting would not clear the domain. ### Summary Verdict The overall posture is high risk, driven decisively by confirmed external threat detections. The domain's short life and the absence of an identifiable operator strengthen that assessment. The sandbox did not observe active exploitation, and the site's behaviour offers no basis for treating the detections as a false positive. ### Infrastructure Integrity The site sits behind Cloudflare's CDN and web application firewall. All observed addresses are edge servers, and the origin server is not visible. This is a mitigating factor only. It shows a mainstream, well-managed delivery layer, and the reputation of the shared edge addresses is clean. It does not reduce the domain-level threat listings, and it prevents independent verification of where the content is actually hosted. ### Closing Assessment The site should be treated as unsafe for any login, credential entry, wallet connection, or financial interaction, and downloads from it should be avoided. If a user has already interacted with it, they should revoke wallet permissions, change reused passwords, and report the link to the platform where it was found. _Written analysis generated 2026-10-29 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 structure of the page changed sharply while it was loading. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_DOM_DENSITY_SPIKE`) ### 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 apedrop-distro.com. - The request stayed on apedrop-distro.com. 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 2027-07-28. (Noted) - The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-08-01. (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 | 2606:4700:3035::6815:5483 | | Name servers | BRIAN.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, PAITYN.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 | 2026-12-24 | | Domain age | 0.25 years (continuous registration) | | Domain expiry | 2027-07-28 | | Archive first seen | 2026-08-01 | | Archive snapshots | 1 | | Reputation | VirusTotal: 10 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports \| Google Safe Browsing: 1 match | ## About this assessment **Was this report useful?** Tell other people what you think of TrustSniffer, good or bad. An honest review helps others decide whether to rely on these checks. 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