Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
asteroidog.info 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 | 18 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 |
| Web archive | Archived since 20261 snapshot | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | 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
Security Alert
Fortinet, Kaspersky, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
Asteroidog.info is a single-page promotional website branded "Asteroid – The SpaceX Mascot". It presents a themed mascot identity associated with the SpaceX name, and its page text could not be semantically classified. Its commercial purpose, operator and any product or transaction mechanics therefore cannot be stated from the captured content.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The evidence is decisively adverse. A broad set of independent security engines currently flags the domain as malicious. These include several tier-one vendors, and the detections are strong enough to place the site on a confirmed blacklist. Reputation sources also associate the domain with known phishing activity. The site's own branding, which borrows the name of a globally recognised aerospace company for a "mascot", fits a pattern of brand-adjacent lures. No phishing page or impersonated legal entity was directly confirmed in the captured content, and no conflicting legal identities were found. The risk therefore rests on third-party threat detections rather than on-page contradictions, and the brand-borrowing theme is a contextual aggravator, not a proven impersonation. The recently created domain is operationally typical of disposable campaign infrastructure. Behavioural testing found no wallet-drainer activity, no credential-exfiltration forms and no cloaking across three runs. This lowers the likelihood of an immediate technical attack on a visitor but does not offset the reputation findings.
- Homepage: titled as the SpaceX mascot, a branding choice that borrows a major third-party name.
- Domain registered 2026-07-27 (~0.25 years old), so the domain is only a few months old.
- Web archive holds 1 snapshot, dated 2026-07-28, so there is no meaningful independent history.
- Multiple security engines, including three tier-one vendors, currently report the domain as malicious.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The captured homepage does not clearly present a named operating company, a registration number or any financial licence. Ownership details are also incomplete, so the real-world operator is not independently verified. No regulatory standing can be inferred, and no third-party broker record matched this domain. Because the site shows no regulated-entity characteristics and carries confirmed threat detections, no reputational comfort is available from this area. Valid transport encryption exists but is a low-barrier domain-validated certificate. It confirms only that traffic is encrypted, not who runs the site.
- Registrar of record is NICENIC International Group Co., Limited, with registration running to 2027-07-27.
- TLS certificate issued by WE1 (DV), valid to 2026-12-23, with roughly 55 days remaining.
- Served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- Homepage: no legal entity, licence number or regulator reference was identified.
What to Verify Next
No engagement is advisable until the external threat detections are cleared. If an investigation is required, the current status of the detections should be re-checked directly with the originating security vendors. Any claimed association with the SpaceX brand should be confirmed against that company's official channels, reached independently of this site. Any claimed operator or company identity should be checked with the relevant corporate registry. Official contact and support channels should be confirmed through an independent route, not through links on this page.
- Homepage: the SpaceX mascot association is unverified and has no visible link to any brand owner.
- The threat detections are current and attributed to named security vendors, so they can be re-queried at source.
- Domain age and archive record are too short to substitute for independent identity verification.
Summary Verdict
The site sits in a critical-risk posture. Active third-party threat detections, a very young domain and an unverified operator together outweigh the benign behavioural results and the technically valid encryption. Those results show no overt malicious behaviour during testing, but they cannot establish legitimacy against confirmed adverse reputation.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is fronted by Cloudflare's CDN and WAF, and every observed address is a shared edge address, so the origin host is not visible and independent hosting verification is not possible. This offers modest mitigation, because the infrastructure itself is mainstream and shows no abuse history. It does not reduce the reputation risk. Edge-only visibility also means the content behind the proxy could be swapped quickly without any change at the network layer.
Closing Assessment
The site should not be used for login, credential entry or any financial interaction. At most, it should be viewed read-only from an isolated, non-production environment. Organisations should block or flag the domain pending clearance of the threat detections.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-29 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
6 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by governance, external reputation, history in the web archive, behaviour in a sandbox, hosting and network, 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 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 Hosting and network
- The domain was registered between three and six months ago.Hosting and network
rule:DNS_YOUNG_6M
06 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 asteroidog.info.
- The request stayed on asteroidog.info. 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 2027-07-27. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-07-28. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3033::6815:1a02 |
| Name servers | laura.ns.cloudflare.com, aragorn.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 | 2026-12-23 |
| Domain age | 0.25 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-07-27 |
| Archive first seen | 2026-07-28 |
| Archive snapshots | 1 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 18 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about asteroidog.info 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.