Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
arbitrumswap.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 | 2 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 87 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 1 months oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Web archive | Archived since 20262 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WR1 | 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
Overview
The website presents itself as "ArbitrumSwap — Native DEX & Liquidity Protocol on Arbitrum", a single-page decentralized-exchange and liquidity-protocol front end. It is published on a free project subdomain of a general-purpose application hosting platform, not on a domain of its own. A visitor sees a crypto-trading brand built around the Arbitrum network name. Its apparent purpose is to attract users to swap tokens and supply liquidity through the site.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
This is the decisive area of concern. Several independent threat-intelligence engines classify the site as malicious or suspicious, and it is listed on an external blacklist. This is a confirmed reputational contradiction, and infrastructure protections do not offset it. The site's name combines a well-known blockchain network brand with a generic "swap" term, on a domain that closely resembles its hosting platform's shared namespace. That is a common pattern for lookalike crypto front ends. No conflicting legal identities and no explicit impersonation of a named company were observed, so the concern rests on the reputation findings and the profile of the domain, not on proven brand abuse. Browser-behaviour testing found no wallet-connection prompts, wallet-drainer routines, clipboard manipulation, hidden forms, external password forms or content cloaking. These checks reduce, but do not remove, the risk. A DEX presents exactly the kind of interface where a later content swap could turn a benign-looking page into a drainer. A large number of abuse reports are attached to an address in the hosting platform's shared range. They are discounted because they most likely reflect other tenants on shared infrastructure and not this site specifically.
- Homepage: the title positions the site as a native DEX and liquidity protocol on Arbitrum, a brand-adjacent name on a shared subdomain.
- Reputation checks: 2 engines rate the domain malicious and 1 suspicious, and it appears on an external blacklist.
- Shared-address abuse reports (87) are tied to the hosting platform's range and are discounted as shared-infrastructure noise.
- Domain registered about 32 days ago (~0.09 years old); the archive holds 2 snapshots between 2026-09-19 and 2026-09-22 (1 year tracked).
Regulatory Verification Notes
The captured homepage identifies no operating company, jurisdiction, licence, registration number or compliance framework. This gap matters because a platform offering token swaps and liquidity provision handles customer assets. The operator is not independently identified. Ownership and governance opacity are administrative and transparency limitations, not identity contradictions. No third-party broker or regulatory-database entry matched the site, so no external reputational signal exists on that front. The legitimate-looking technical hygiene (valid encryption, a stable response profile) does not establish who runs the service or whether it is authorised to offer financial functions anywhere. The site is also not recognised in the DeFi protocol directory, so its claim to be a "native" protocol has no independent corroboration.
- Homepage: no operator name, legal entity, licence or registry reference is displayed.
- Hosted on AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US) in the United States.
- TLS certificate issued by WR1 (domain-validated only), valid to 2026-11-27 (36 days remaining). This proves encryption, not operator identity.
- Not listed in the DeFiLlama protocol directory.
What to Verify Next
Before any interaction, confirm independently that a protocol called ArbitrumSwap exists by checking the official channels of the Arbitrum ecosystem and the project's claimed documentation. Do not rely on links found on this site. Any smart-contract addresses the site presents should be compared against addresses published by an independent block explorer or an established DeFi aggregator, and the deployer's history checked. The identity and licensing status of any claimed operator should be checked with the relevant financial regulator or corporate registry. The official contact and support channels should be confirmed through a route independent of the site. The current threat-intelligence listings should be re-checked later, since a clean result at a later date would materially change the picture.
- Homepage: no contract addresses, audits or team details were captured for comparison.
- Domain age of about 32 days and 2 archive snapshots give no long-term history to corroborate the project.
- Reputation findings (2 malicious, 1 suspicious detections plus blacklist) are current and unresolved.
Summary Verdict
The available evidence supports an elevated-risk posture. Active threat-intelligence detections and blacklisting combine with a very young domain on a shared subdomain, an unidentified operator and a finance-oriented brand profile. The benign behavioural results narrow the range of observed misconduct but do not outweigh the confirmed external detections. The site cannot be treated as trustworthy.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is served from Amazon-operated address space in the United States through its hosting platform's edge network. Several edge addresses were observed and no origin server could be seen, so the real hosting location cannot be independently verified. Content can also be changed quickly behind the edge. Valid transport encryption and reputable infrastructure are mitigating factors only. They show the platform is professionally run, not that the site's tenant is legitimate.
Closing Assessment
Treat the site as read-only at most. Do not connect a wallet, sign transactions, supply credentials or send funds through it, and download nothing from it, unless the project is first verified through independent, authoritative channels.
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
- Several malware engines flagged this domain.External reputation
rule:EXT_BLACKLIST_HIGH
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
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: 87 reports on hosting IP 64.29.17.195 (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 arbitrumswap.vercel.app.
- The request stayed on arbitrumswap.vercel.app. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-09-19. 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 | 64.29.17.195 |
| 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 | 0.09 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2026-09-19 |
| Archive snapshots | 2 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 87 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about arbitrumswap.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.