Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
asterdex-trading.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 | 10 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 83 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 1.1 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20255 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: 1 to 3 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2025.
- 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.
AsterDEX Trading is a single-page, trading-themed website published on a free, shared Vercel-hosted subdomain. Its title and presentation suggest a cryptocurrency exchange or trading front end. The homepage carries a substantial amount of text, and the apparent purpose is to attract visitors to trade or transact on a decentralized-exchange-style platform. The site has no independently established connection to a recognised operator or brand.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
This is a high-risk profile built on confirmed contradictions. Multiple independent security engines currently flag the domain as malicious, including two tier-one vendors. The detection volume is high enough to trigger an external blacklist and to cap the assessment at its lowest band. A historical phishing association is also recorded against the domain. The name pairs a trading-brand label with a generic "trading" suffix, on a free subdomain of a general hosting platform rather than a dedicated, independently registered domain. That pattern is typical of throwaway or lookalike deployments and is not typical of an established exchange. The abuse reports logged against the serving IP address are not attributed to this site. That address is shared platform infrastructure used by many tenants, so those reports are discounted and are not counted as evidence against it. The blacklist and detection signals remain decisive on their own. In the automated sandbox, the homepage made no external requests and showed no wallet-draining, clipboard-manipulation, hidden-form or cloaking behaviour. That is a mitigating observation about the captured page only. It does not offset the external threat listings, and it does not rule out later content changes. No conflicting legal identities were observed. Evidence:
- Homepage and domain reputation: ten security engines flagged the domain as malicious, including two tier-one vendors, and an external blacklist status is active.
- Domain provenance: about 1.05 years of domain continuity, on a shared platform subdomain.
- Web archive: 5 snapshots spanning 2025-10-01 to 2026-02-14 (2 years tracked), a sparse and recent history, with a phishing association recorded.
- Homepage behaviour: three of three sandbox runs completed with zero external network calls, zero console errors, and no wallet or clipboard abuse.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The captured pages do not independently connect the site to a real-world operator, and ownership details are opaque. That is treated as an administrative limitation and not as an identity contradiction. The site's licensing or registration status could not be established from the evidence supplied. For a service that presents itself as a trading venue, that gap matters because it removes any regulator or registry backstop for users' funds. No third-party broker-reputation record matched this site, so no regulatory or broker verdict is available either way. The valid encryption certificate and the cloud hosting show only that the site is technically reachable and encrypted. They do not show that it is legitimate. Evidence:
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by WR1 (domain-validated only, no organisation validation), valid to 2026-11-27 with 36 days remaining.
- Hosting: served from AS16509 (AMAZON-02, Amazon.com, Inc., US).
- Identity: page-level identity analysis could not connect the site to a verified brand or person.
- Third-party registry: no broker or regulator record matched this domain.
What to Verify Next
Anyone considering engagement should reach the AsterDEX brand, if it is real, only through an address obtained independently of this site, such as the project's officially documented channels. They should then confirm whether this subdomain is acknowledged there. If the operator claims to be a regulated trading venue, the licence should be confirmed directly with the relevant financial regulator's public register and not through any number or badge shown on the site. The official support and contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent route. Wallets should not be connected, and no signing, deposit or token-approval step should be completed, until the site's current status is re-checked on a fresh threat-intelligence lookup. Evidence:
- Homepage: the site presents a trading brand on a shared subdomain, with no operator named in the evidence captured.
- Reputation status: current external listings mark the domain as malicious, so any clearance would need to show an actual delisting.
- Recorded history: the archive holds only a few recent snapshots, so there is no long operating record to rely on.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is clearly cautionary and security-forward. Confirmed external threat listings define the assessment, and the site's operator and legitimacy cannot be independently established. The clean behaviour observed in the sandbox is a mitigating note only. It does not move the site out of the elevated-risk category.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is served through a content-delivery layer on Amazon's cloud network, and every observed address is an edge server. The origin server was not observable, so the hosting cannot be independently verified. Edge-only visibility also means content can be swapped quickly without any visible change in hosting. This is a technically mainstream setup and counts as a mitigating factor only. It cannot offset the reputational risk from the external threat detections.
Closing Assessment
Treat the site as read-only at most. Do not log in, enter credentials, connect a wallet, or make any deposit or financial transaction on it. Anyone who has already interacted with it should review their wallet permissions and revoke any approvals.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-22 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
3 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by governance, external reputation, registration and ownership.
01 Governance
- A threat feed lists this domain as malicious, and that caps the score whatever the other checks found.Governance
rule:GOV_CRITICAL_BLACKLIST
02 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
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: 83 reports on hosting IP 216.198.79.67 (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 asterdex-trading.vercel.app.
- The request stayed on asterdex-trading.vercel.app. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2025-10-01. 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 | 216.198.79.67 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| CDN / edge network | Detected |
| Resolved IP addresses | 8 |
| Edge IP addresses | 8 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | WR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-27 |
| Domain age | 1.05 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2025-10-01 |
| Archive snapshots | 5 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 10 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 83 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about asterdex-trading.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.