Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
badge-xrp.com 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.
This website is a single-page, crypto-themed site on a recently created domain. Its homepage is titled "XRP Loyalty Badge — Ripple", which presents a badge or loyalty offering tied to the XRP token and the Ripple name. The page text could not be analysed in depth, so its exact mechanics are not established. The apparent purpose is to draw visitors who associate the XRP and Ripple names with an official programme. No operator is independently connected to that programme.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The contradictory signals here are serious and mutually reinforcing. The domain is blacklisted by multiple independent threat-intelligence sources. A substantial number of security engines classify it as malicious, and several top-tier vendors are among them. This is the decisive signal, and the supporting infrastructure cannot offset it. The page title borrows a globally recognised brand and token name for a domain with no demonstrated connection to that brand. The domain is also only a few months old, so there is no track record to counter the detections. Behavioural testing adds a secondary concern. The page generated outbound data submissions to several third-party destinations outside the expected allow-list, and external traffic made up a large share of its activity. Three console errors were also recorded. No credential-capture form or wallet-drainer behaviour was triggered during testing. That does not offset the blacklisting, and a site with this profile can change its content quickly. No conflicting legal identities were observed. Evidence:
- Homepage: titled "XRP Loyalty Badge — Ripple", invoking a well-known brand without any verified affiliation.
- Reputation: confirmed blacklist listings and malicious classifications from multiple independent security sources.
- Domain registered 2026-07-28 (~0.25 years old).
- Archive depth is a single snapshot, first and last seen 2026-08-01 (1 year tracked).
- Homepage behaviour: three external data submissions to destinations outside the expected allow-list, with a high share of external requests.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The operator's real-world identity could not be tied to any legal entity, and the site's on-page disclosure of company, licence, or registration details is unclear. For a site that invokes a financial-technology brand and token name, that gap matters. It leaves no accountable party behind the "loyalty badge" proposition. No third-party regulatory or broker record matched this domain, and no licence or registry standing was found. The DV certificate shows that encryption is in place. It says nothing about who operates the site, and ownership remains opaque. Evidence:
- Registrar: NICENIC International Group Co., Limited, with a one-year registration term to 2027-07-28.
- TLS certificate: issued by WE1 (DV, domain-validated only), valid to 2026-12-24, so no organisational identity is attested.
- Served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- Homepage: no verifiable operator, legal entity, or licence reference was established.
What to Verify Next
Prospective users should treat the offering as unverified and check it only through channels independent of this domain. Ripple's own official, independently known channels should be consulted to see whether any "XRP Loyalty Badge" programme exists. Any link, message, or advertisement that led to this domain should be traced back to its source. No wallet connection, signature request, or personal or financial detail should be supplied until an official source confirms the programme. Official support and contact routes should be confirmed through the brand's own channels rather than any contact path offered here. A security team may wish to report the domain to the relevant brand-protection or abuse contacts. Evidence:
- Homepage: the programme is presented under a major brand name that cannot be corroborated from the page itself.
- Threat listings: current detections make any interaction with the site a security risk.
- Recent registration: the domain has no history to support an independent legitimacy check.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high risk. Confirmed blacklisting by multiple security sources and the use of a prominent brand name on a very new domain with no established operator outweigh the technically sound transport encryption. The available evidence does not support treating the site as legitimate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site sits behind Cloudflare's CDN and WAF, and all observed addresses are edge servers. The origin server was not observable, so independent hosting verification is limited. Cloudflare's presence is a mitigating factor only. It is shared, mainstream infrastructure used by legitimate and malicious sites alike. It does not reduce the reputational risk and can make rapid content changes harder to detect.
Closing Assessment
The site should not be used for login, credential entry, wallet connection, or any financial interaction. At most, it should be viewed read-only from a controlled environment. Any link that led here should be treated as suspect and reported to the impersonated brand's official channels.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-29 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
- 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
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 - The page sent data to a destination TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_POSTS
05 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 badge-xrp.com.
- The request stayed on badge-xrp.com. 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 2027-07-28. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-08-01. 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 | 2606:4700:3030::6815:551e |
| Name servers | FRANK.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, JADE.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 | 2026-12-24 |
| Domain age | 0.25 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-07-28 |
| Archive first seen | 2026-08-01 |
| 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 badge-xrp.com 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.