Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
apesonsol.xyz 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 | 9 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 | 3 months oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | Noted |
| Hosted by | CLOUDFLARENETServer in US | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: less than 1 year (registration continuity).
- 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.
Apesonsol.xyz is a single-page, token-themed website titled "APES OF PUMP | $APES on Solana". It presents a Solana-based meme-coin project called $APES, apparently to promote the token and attract visitors toward trading or participation. The captured homepage is short and brand-oriented, and it gives a visitor little verifiable detail about who runs the project.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
Contradictory signals are present and decisive. The domain is blacklisted: several independent security engines, including major endpoint-security vendors, classify it as malicious or suspicious, and an external blacklist corroborates this. No conflicting legal identities and no impersonation of a specific named brand were observed, so the concern rests on reputation rather than identity inconsistency. Behavioral testing of the homepage showed no wallet-drainer activity, no clipboard manipulation, no hidden forms and no content cloaking. That does not offset the threat classification, because a page can behave benignly during a short automated visit and change later. The page does make heavy use of third-party calls, nearly all of its network traffic is external, and it produced repeated script errors, which suggests a hastily assembled or template-based build. The project's own pitch is an anonymous Solana meme token, a category where rapid launch, promotion and abandonment is a common pattern. The domain is also only weeks old, so it has no track record to counter the adverse reputation findings.
- Homepage: security engines currently flag the domain as malicious and suspicious, and an external blacklist entry corroborates the listing.
- Homepage behavior: across 3 sandbox runs, 14 external XHR/fetch requests, 4 external POST requests and 10 console errors were recorded, with up to 99% of observed traffic going to external hosts. No wallet, clipboard or hidden-form abuse was detected.
- Domain registration: created 2026-08-13 (~75 days, 0.21 years old).
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site discloses no operating company, licence, registration number or accountable individual, and the captured page carries no legal or terms content that establishes an entity. Domain ownership details are also incomplete, which is an ownership-opacity concern rather than an identity contradiction. For a token project inviting public participation, the absence of any named, accountable party matters. The site has no regulatory standing that could be weighed against the adverse reputation. No third-party broker or regulator database entry was matched, so the reputational findings above are the only external signal. The valid certificate and registrar record are routine technical hygiene and do not speak to legitimacy.
- Homepage: no company name, licence, registration number or legal-terms content is visible in the captured text.
- Registrar: Global Domain Group LLC, with registration running to 2027-08-13.
- Hosting: served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- Transport security: TLS certificate issued by WE1 (DV, domain validation only), valid to 2027-01-09. DV confirms control of the domain, not the operator's identity.
What to Verify Next
Any contact with this site should be preceded by independent checks outside it. First, confirm the official token contract address and project channels through an independent on-chain explorer and well-established community sources, not through links on this page. Second, check whether the security vendors' listings have been reviewed or removed, since a current listing indicates active danger. Third, look for a named, verifiable team or developer with a history that can be checked independently. Fourth, confirm the official support and contact channels through an independent route.
- Homepage: the page is branded around the $APES token and the Solana network, so on-chain records are the most reliable independent reference.
- Reputation: the adverse findings come from external security engines, so a current re-scan is the direct way to see whether they persist.
- Registration: the domain is under three months old, so no long-term operating history exists to cross-check.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high risk. Confirmed adverse reputation findings from multiple independent sources, together with a very young domain and no accountable operator, outweigh the technically sound transport security and clean sandbox behavior. The site does not reach a standard of trust suitable for any sensitive interaction.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site sits behind Cloudflare's CDN and WAF, and every observed address is an edge node, so the origin server could not be seen. This is a mitigating factor only. It offers some resilience and filtering, but edge-only visibility prevents independent confirmation of where the content is hosted and makes it easier to swap content quickly. Protective infrastructure cannot offset the threat-intelligence findings, and the sparse subdomain footprint on a young domain is only an unconfirmed heuristic.
Closing Assessment
The site should not be used for sign-in, wallet connection, token purchase or any payment. At most, it should be viewed in an isolated, disposable environment without interacting with it or downloading anything. Anyone who has already interacted with the site should review their wallet permissions and change any reused credentials.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-27 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
4 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by external reputation, hosting and network, 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 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
04 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 apesonsol.xyz.
- The request stayed on apesonsol.xyz. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Global Domain Group LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-08-13. Noted
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Global Domain Group LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3035::ac43:bc4f |
| Name servers | EVERTON.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, NAOMI.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 | 2027-01-09 |
| Domain age | 0.21 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-08-13 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 9 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about apesonsol.xyz 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.