Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
arbitrumdefender.vercel.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 | 12 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 90 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | Not availableNo registration record was returned | Noted |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WR1 | Noted |
| Hosted by | AMAZON-02Server in US | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This website is a single-page site hosted on a free subdomain of a shared deployment platform. It uses Arbitrum branding and the headline "Check your airdrop eligibility to govern Arbitrum". It presents itself as a governance-token airdrop eligibility checker for the Arbitrum ecosystem, and its apparent purpose is to draw visitors into an airdrop-claim flow. No independent evidence ties the page to a verified Arbitrum operator.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The evidence converges on an elevated, security-forward concern. Multiple major security vendors currently flag the domain as malicious, and one more marks it suspicious. That is a confirmed blacklist condition, and it is the decisive factor in the assessment. The page title uses a well-known blockchain brand and an airdrop-eligibility hook on a free, disposable subdomain, not an official domain. That is a lure pattern often associated with crypto phishing, and it is consistent with the external detections. Behavioral testing of the homepage showed no wallet-connection prompts, no clipboard manipulation, no hidden forms, no cloaking, and no fingerprinting. Those are absences of specific techniques and do not offset the external detections. The page did make several outbound data submissions to third-party destinations. A subset of these went to destinations outside the recognised-service list, and the page also produced a high volume of script errors during loading. No conflicting legal entities were found, because no legal or identity pages were available to compare. The identity of the operator is unverified.
- Homepage: the title promises a governance airdrop eligibility check under the Arbitrum name, hosted on a shared-platform subdomain.
- Threat-intelligence aggregation: 12 engines report the domain as malicious and 1 as suspicious, including two top-tier security vendors.
- Behavioral testing, 3 of 3 runs completed: 9 external POST requests, 3 of them to non-whitelisted destinations; 22 console errors.
- Behavioral testing: no wallet-drainer activity, clipboard writes, hidden forms, or cloaking were detected.
Regulatory Verification Notes
No licensing, registration, or corporate-identity information could be tied to this site, and the homepage does not present a verifiable operator. This is a verification gap, not evidence of wrongdoing on its own. The site's transport encryption is a domain-validated certificate. It confirms control of the hostname only and says nothing about the identity or legitimacy of whoever runs the page. No third-party broker or regulatory-database entry matched this site, so there is no reputational context from that source. The elevated assessment rests on the threat detections discussed above, not on missing paperwork.
- Homepage: no named company, registration number, or legal-entity disclosure was identified.
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by WR1 (DV), valid to 2026-11-27.
- Hosting: served from AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US).
What to Verify Next
Any claim of an Arbitrum airdrop should be checked only through channels reached independently of this site. These include the project's officially published announcements and its verified community and governance forums, using addresses typed in by hand or taken from trusted sources. The site's contact channels should be confirmed through the same independent route. If the page asked for a wallet connection, transaction signature, or seed phrase, those requests should be treated as unsolicited and reported to the hosting platform's abuse desk and to the relevant brand owner.
- Homepage: the airdrop-eligibility claim cannot be corroborated from the site's own content.
- Homepage: the page is hosted on a shared-platform subdomain, not a domain verifiably controlled by the brand it references.
- Threat-intelligence aggregation: the current malicious detections would need to be cleared before any reassessment.
Summary Verdict
The available evidence supports a high-risk posture. Confirmed adverse security detections and a brand-themed airdrop lure outweigh the absence of observed wallet-drainer behaviour, and the operator's identity remains unverified. The site should be regarded as potentially malicious until the detections are resolved and legitimate ownership is independently demonstrated.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is served from Amazon-hosted address space (AS16509) via a shared CDN/WAF platform. All observed addresses are edge nodes, and the origin server was not observable, so the hosting cannot be independently verified. The infrastructure is technically sound and mitigates exposure only to a limited degree. A large volume of abuse reports is attached to one of the shared edge addresses. Those reports reflect many unrelated tenants on common infrastructure and are discounted, so they are not attributed to this site. The infrastructure cannot offset the external threat detections.
Closing Assessment
The site should not be used for anything beyond passive viewing. Wallet connections, credential entry, transaction approvals, and payments should be avoided entirely. Anyone who has already interacted with the page should review and revoke wallet permissions and change any exposed credentials.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-26 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
3 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by external reputation, 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 Behaviour in a sandbox
- The page sent data to a destination TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_POSTS - The page produced an unusually high number of errors while it ran.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_CONSOLE_ERRORS_HIGH - The page sent data to other domains many times while it was open.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_POSTS_HEAVY
03 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: 90 reports on hosting IP 64.29.17.67 (Vercel, Inc, Content Delivery Network), 0% 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 arbitrumdefender.vercel.app.
- The request stayed on arbitrumdefender.vercel.app. It was not redirected to another domain. 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 | 64.29.17.67 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| CDN / edge network | Detected |
| Resolved IP addresses | 6 |
| Edge IP addresses | 6 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | WR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-27 |
| Domain age | Not available (no registration date was returned) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 12 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 90 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about arbitrumdefender.vercel.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.