Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
catememe.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 | 2 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 |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | Noted |
| Hosted by | CLOUDFLARENETServer in US | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: less than 1 year (registration continuity).
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This website is the promotional front end for a meme-token project branded "$CATE | Catecoin — The Internet's Cat". It presents a single-page, crypto-community-style experience built around the Catecoin token, and its apparent purpose is to promote and attract participation in that token. The operator's real-world identity is not independently established.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
Contradictory signals are present and are material. Several independent threat-intelligence sources currently flag the domain as malicious or suspicious, and the aggregate reputation picture amounts to a confirmed blacklisting. The domain was also created only recently. Token-promotion sites with this profile are a common vehicle for rapid-turnover fraud, such as rug-pull promotion, fake-airdrop lures and wallet-targeting schemes. No conflicting legal identities and no explicit brand impersonation were observed, so the concern rests on the reputation hits combined with the site's newness. The behavioural sandbox mitigates this slightly. Across repeated visits it saw no wallet-drainer behaviour, no clipboard manipulation, no hidden forms, no credential posts to external destinations, and no request to a non-whitelisted third party. The page nonetheless made a heavy volume of outbound requests, including several external data submissions. Its console also logged repeated script errors, which points to a loosely engineered front end. These findings do not offset the blacklist signal. Sensitive interaction is therefore treated as high-risk.
- Homepage/reputation layer: multiple detection sources rate the domain malicious or suspicious, and it appears on an external blacklist.
- Domain provenance: registered 2026-08-02 (~0.23 years, ~85 days old). The domain has had very little time to build a track record.
- Homepage behaviour: 36 external network requests (27 external XHR/fetch calls, 9 external POSTs) and 12 console errors across 3 sandbox runs. All destinations were on the whitelist, and no wallet-drainer or clipboard-hijack activity was detected.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The captured page content gave no usable evidence of a named legal entity, a licence, or a registration number. No verified link to a real-world operator could be drawn. For a site that invites participation in a crypto-asset, the absence of any identifiable regulated entity is a material disclosure gap. It is not itself proof of wrongdoing, but here it coincides with the reputation findings above. No third-party broker or regulatory record matched this domain, so there is no independent record to anchor the site's claims. The registrar is a mainstream commercial one, and the site uses a valid but entry-level, domain-validated certificate. These facts confirm only that the domain is technically operational. They say nothing about who runs it or whether it is authorised to offer anything to the public.
- Homepage: the token branding is presented without any visible legal-entity or licensing attribution in the captured content.
- Registration: the domain is registered through PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com, with registrant details masked under GDPR. It expires 2027-08-02.
- Transport security: the site is served from AS13335 (Cloudflare). Its TLS certificate is issued by WE1 (DV) and valid to 2026-12-29, with about 63 days remaining.
What to Verify Next
Any engagement should start with the origin of the project. Confirm through independent channels that the Catecoin token exists as described, including its contract address and issuer. Use well-known public blockchain explorers and the project's channels, and do not rely on links or addresses supplied by this site. Look for an identifiable team, an audit report, and a legal entity registered in a recognised jurisdiction, and check whether that entity needs authorisation for the activity it promotes. Confirm that any official support or contact channel is reachable through a route found independently of this website. Check whether the flagging sources have since delisted the domain or published details of why they flagged it.
- Homepage: the token is promoted under the "$CATE" ticker, so the contract and issuer must be confirmed from sources outside the site.
- Reputation layer: the current blacklist and detection status should be re-checked before any decision, since feed listings can change.
- Domain history: the domain is only a few months old, so no long operating record exists to confirm the project's claims.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high-risk. Confirmed adverse reputation signals, a very young domain and no verifiable operator identity converge on a cautionary conclusion. Apparently clean sandbox behaviour and valid transport security do not outweigh the reputation findings. The site cannot be treated as legitimate on the available evidence.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site sits behind Cloudflare's CDN and web application firewall. All observed addresses are edge servers, and the origin host was not visible. This protection is a mitigating factor only. It improves availability and shields the origin from direct attack, but it does not validate the operator. Edge-only visibility also prevents independent hosting verification, and content can be swapped rapidly behind the edge. The only infrastructure heuristic raised is a young domain with sparse subdomains, and it is unconfirmed. It is consistent with the domain's age and is not treated as an independent risk.
Closing Assessment
Treat the site as read-only at most. Do not log in, connect a wallet, sign transactions, submit credentials, or make any payment or token purchase through it. Do not download anything from it. Any interest in the project should be pursued only after independent confirmation of its legitimacy.
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, hosting and network, behaviour in a sandbox.
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 - The domain is young and has almost nothing else set up around it.Hosting and network
rule:DNS_SPARSE_YOUNG_DOMAIN
03 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 produced an unusually high number of errors while it ran.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_CONSOLE_ERRORS_HIGH - The page made many background requests to other domains while it was open.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_XHR_HEAVY
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 catememe.com.
- The request stayed on catememe.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-08-02. Noted
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3031::6815:23c9 |
| Name servers | ATHENA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, COLIN.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 | 2026-12-29 |
| Domain age | 0.23 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-08-02 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about catememe.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.