Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
claim-aethir.app shows high-risk / scam indicators.
| What this site appears to be | A portal for claiming a Season 2 ATH airdrop and managing ATH staking on Ethereum. It requires a wallet transaction to claim, uses a countdown to create urgency, and provides no visible risk disclosure, legal identity, or eligibility criteria. |
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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 | 1 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 1 report; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 26 days oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE2 | Noted |
| Hosted by | ROUTERHOSTINGServer 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.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This website is a single-page crypto portal branded "Aethir User Portal" that invites visitors to claim a "Season 2" ATH token airdrop on Ethereum and to manage ATH staking rewards. The homepage promises to reward "early contributors powering Aethir's GPU revolution" and asks visitors to sign in and approve a wallet transaction. Its apparent purpose is to funnel visitors into a token-claim and staking flow, and no sale of a conventional product or service is visible.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
Contradictory signals are present, and the posture is clearly cautionary. A security vendor's reputation feed flags the domain, and other engines rate it suspicious, so the site carries a confirmed blacklist-level listing. The domain name pairs a "claim" prefix with the name of an established GPU-network token project. The portal borrows that project's name and its ATH token, but nothing on the site independently links the operator to that project. Brand impersonation is not itself confirmed. The homepage uses the classic pressure mechanics of airdrop-claim lures: a live countdown timer styled as a deadline, a "Claim your reward" call to action, and a prompt to "Accept transaction request in the wallet". The page gives no eligibility criteria, token-allocation terms, audit reference or risk disclosure, so the reward claims cannot be checked against anything. Sandbox runs also recorded background traffic to non-allow-listed external destinations, including several outbound data submissions, and a majority share of requests went to third-party hosts. One abuse report exists against the hosting address, but it belongs to a shared provider range and is stale. It is discounted and does not drive this assessment.
- Homepage: a countdown timer, a "Claim your reward on Ethereum" call to action and a wallet transaction prompt appear with no eligibility rules or risk warning.
- Reputation checks: 1 malicious and 3 suspicious detections at major security engines, with one top-tier vendor flagging the domain.
- Domain provenance: registered 2026-09-24 (~25 days old, 0.07 years), so the portal appeared very recently.
- Sandbox behaviour: 111 external XHR calls and 7 external POSTs, 3 of each to non-allow-listed destinations. External traffic peaked at 73% of requests across 3 successful runs.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage links a Privacy Policy and General Terms of Service. The sampled content names no legal entity, jurisdiction, licence or registration, and it offers no regulated-activity disclosure, although the portal handles token distribution and staking. The only contact route visible is a Discord community link, with no postal address or support channel. The identity of the operator behind this domain is therefore unverified, and the claim of association with an established project rests solely on the site's own branding. No third-party broker or regulatory-database match exists for the site. This gap is a transparency finding in its own right, and it compounds the contradictory signals above.
- Homepage footer: the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service links are present, but the sampled content names no operating company or governing jurisdiction.
- Homepage community section: a Discord invitation is the only contact artifact, with no verifiable address or support route.
- Registration: the domain is registered through NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED and runs to 2027-09-24.
- Hosting and encryption: served from AS14956 (RouterHosting LLC, US), with a DV-level TLS certificate issued by YE2 and valid to 2026-12-23. This confirms encryption only, not operator identity.
What to Verify Next
Before any wallet interaction, the airdrop's existence and its official claim address should be confirmed through the Aethir project's own channels. Those channels should be reached independently of this site, for example through the project's publicly announced domain and verified social accounts, and not through the Discord link on this page. Any wallet transaction request should be treated as a potential token-approval or drainer risk until the contract and the permissions requested are inspected in a transaction simulator or block explorer. The operating entity and any applicable registration should be sought from independent registries. The site's own claims should not be taken as confirmation.
- Homepage: the claim flow requests a wallet transaction without stating which contract or permissions are involved.
- Homepage: the site names a token project, but no official announcement or audit is cited to confirm the "Season 2" drop.
- Legal pages: no legal entity is named against which a registry check could be run.
Summary Verdict
The evidence converges on a high-risk, untrusted site. Threat-intelligence detections, a very newly registered domain, pressure-driven claim mechanics, and an unverifiable operator identity reinforce one another. A valid certificate and a stable page load do not offset these contradictory signals. No evidence supports treating the portal as a legitimate or officially affiliated service.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is fronted by a CDN and web application firewall, and its observed address sits on a RouterHosting LLC range in the United States, with the true origin server not observable. This protection mitigates direct exposure of the origin. It also limits independent verification of the hosting and could mask rapid content swaps. It is a mitigating factor only, and it cannot offset the reputation risk established above.
Closing Assessment
The site should not be used for sign-in, wallet connection, transaction approval or any financial interaction. Viewing the page passively is the only acceptable use. Anyone who has already connected a wallet or approved a transaction should revoke token approvals and move remaining assets to a fresh wallet.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-19 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, page content.
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
03 Page content
- The page shows few of the signs expected from a trustworthy operator.Page content
rule:PAGE_TRUST_QUALITY_LOW - The page content shows three or more warning signs that deceptive sites commonly use.Page content
rule:PAGE_RED_FLAGS_STRONG - The review of the page content rated it moderate risk.Page content
rule:PAGE_RISK_MED - The page content shows at least one warning sign that deceptive sites commonly use.Page content
rule:PAGE_RED_FLAGS_SOME
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 1 report on hosting IP 172.86.114.109 (RouterHosting LLC, Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
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 claim-aethir.app.
- The request stayed on claim-aethir.app. 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 2027-09-24. Noted
- It is hosted on ROUTERHOSTING, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED |
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| Hosting | ROUTERHOSTING - RouterHosting LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 172.86.114.109 |
| Name servers | annalise.ns.cloudflare.com, chris.ns.cloudflare.com |
| CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) |
| Resolved IP addresses | 1 |
| Edge IP addresses | 1 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-23 |
| Domain age | 0.07 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-09-24 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 1 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 1 report | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about claim-aethir.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.