Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
basebridge.pro 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 | 11 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 11% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 5 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 2.8 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20243 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | 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 2024.
- 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.
Base Bridge is a single-page website at basebridge.pro, titled "Base Bridge — Official ETH & Token Bridge to Base Blockchain". It presents itself as the official gateway for moving ETH and tokens onto the Base blockchain. Its apparent business model is a cryptocurrency bridging front end, where visitors would be asked to move digital assets through an interface the site operates.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
This is a high-risk site. Contradictory signals are present. Several major security vendors currently flag the domain as malicious, and the aggregate detection level is high enough that the site is treated as blacklisted. These detections are the decisive factor. The site's self-description as the "official" bridge to a well-known blockchain is an unverifiable authority claim. Nothing reviewed ties the domain to the network's genuine operators, and a bridge brand that borrows a major ecosystem's name is a common lure for asset-diversion schemes. No conflicting legal identities were found, and nothing confirms phishing or brand impersonation on the page. Behavioural testing found no wallet-drainer activity, clipboard manipulation, hidden credential forms, or content cloaking. Those results are mitigating, but they do not offset the external detections. A bridge's core function is to take custody of user funds, so the harm would occur at the moment of transaction. The domain's provenance is also weak. Its recorded registration is recent, yet web-archive captures predate it. That pattern is consistent with a lapsed and re-registered domain, but the evidence does not establish that. The archive record is also very thin.
- Homepage: titled as the "official" ETH and token bridge to Base, a claim with no corroborating link to the underlying network's operators.
- Reputation: three major security vendors flag the domain as malicious, and a larger group of engines marks it malicious or suspicious.
- Provenance: WHOIS registration dated 2026-07-29 (~0.24 years old), against only 3 archive snapshots spanning 2024–2026 (3 years tracked).
- Behavioural testing of the homepage showed no wallet-drainer, clipboard-hijack, hidden-form or cloaking activity.
Regulatory Verification Notes
No licensing, registration, or regulated-entity status could be linked to the site. Disclosure of the operating entity on the page is unclear, and domain ownership details are incomplete, so the real-world operator is unidentified. Services that custody or transfer digital assets would normally be expected to name a responsible legal entity and the jurisdiction they operate under, and none is established here. The licensing gap is a verification shortfall rather than proof of fraud. It is, however, compounded by the external detections above, so it cannot be treated as benign. No third-party broker or regulatory-database entry was found to corroborate the site.
- Homepage and legal content: no identifiable operating company, licence, or registration number could be tied to the bridge service.
- Registrar: the domain is registered through Atak Domain Bilgi Teknolojileri A.Ş., with incomplete owner details.
- Hosting: served from AS59692 (IQWEB - IQWeb FZ-LLC, AE).
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by YR2 at domain-validation (DV) level only, valid to 2027-01-18. This confirms an encrypted connection but says nothing about who operates the site.
What to Verify Next
Before any interaction, the bridge's genuine address should be confirmed through the official Base documentation or the project's verified social and developer channels. It should not be taken from search results, advertisements, or links received in messages. Any contact or support channel the site lists should be checked against those official sources through an independent route. The claimed "official" status should be checked directly with the network's published ecosystem resources. Established, publicly documented bridges can be used for transfers instead, which makes interaction with this domain unnecessary.
- Homepage: the "official" positioning is the claim to test against the network's own published ecosystem listings.
- Operator identity: no accountable legal entity appears on the site to check against a business or financial registry.
- Contact pages: any published support route should be confirmed through an independent channel.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is clearly cautionary, with elevated risk. Independent threat detections, a weak and discontinuous domain history, and an unidentified operator outweigh the technically clean behaviour observed. The evidence does not support treating the site as a legitimate bridge, and its claim to be the official one remains unproven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to a single server address at a data-centre hosting provider in the United Arab Emirates, and no CDN or WAF sits in front of it. There is therefore no protective layer to mitigate exposure, and the infrastructure does not offset the reputation risk. Several abuse reports are recorded against that address, but they relate to a shared hosting provider. They carry some weight as context and are not conclusive about this domain.
Closing Assessment
The site should be limited to passive viewing at most. Wallet connections, transaction signing, token approvals, asset transfers, and entry of credentials or seed phrases should be avoided entirely. Anyone who has already interacted with the site should review and revoke wallet permissions and treat the exposed wallet's security as potentially compromised.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-27 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
- Most of what the page loaded came from other domains rather than from this one.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_HIGH
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: 5 reports on hosting IP 186.2.175.35 (IQWeb FZ-LLC, Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 11% 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 basebridge.pro.
- The request stayed on basebridge.pro. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Atak Domain Bilgi Teknolojileri A.Ş.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by trustname.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-07-29. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2024-01-10. Clear
- It is hosted on IQWEB, from a server in AE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Atak Domain Bilgi Teknolojileri A.Ş. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | IQWEB - IQWeb FZ-LLC, AE |
| Country | AE |
| Server IP | 186.2.175.35 |
| Name servers | zeus.trustname.com, ares.trustname.com |
| CDN / edge network | Not detected |
| Resolved IP addresses | 1 |
| Edge IP addresses | 0 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 1 |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-01-18 |
| Domain age | 2.80 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-07-29 |
| Archive first seen | 2024-01-10 |
| Archive snapshots | 3 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 11 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 11% confidence, 5 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about basebridge.pro 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.