Verdict
cpaexchange.ru appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Russian-language corporate homepage for CPAExchange, a performance-marketing platform operating since 2015. It describes lead-generation services for advertisers, CPA offers and monthly payouts for business partners, supported by company registration details, contact information, a Moscow office address, policies, and contractual payment requirements. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 15 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2012303 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GlobalSign GCC R3 DV TLS CA 2020 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2012.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is the corporate presence of CPAExchange, a Russian-language performance-marketing platform that connects advertisers seeking validated leads or defined customer actions with webmasters and traffic owners paid for accepted conversions.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No identity contradictions, phishing indicators, brand impersonation, or other fraud signals were observed. The homepage describes a coherent commercial model spanning traffic acquisition, lead generation, CPA offers, quality-review holds, and monthly payments to participating legal entities. Its claims of operating since 2015, serving 30,000 webmasters, confirming 4 million applications, and completing 3,000 campaigns are consistent with an established operating narrative; they are corporate claims rather than independently validated performance figures. Longstanding domain and archive continuity materially support provenance, with no evidence of suspicious repurposing.
- The domain registration record shows registration on 1 July 2011, making the domain approximately 15.09 years old; the registrar is RU-CENTER-RU, and the current registration expires on 1 July 2027.
- The web archive contains 303 snapshots from 28 December 2012 through 10 May 2026, spanning 15 tracked years with no gap exceeding one year.
- The homepage contains no hidden or sensitive forms, while observed browser behavior showed no cloaking, clipboard hijacking, wallet interaction, suspicious inline scripts, or external password submission.
- External reputation checks recorded zero malicious and zero suspicious detections, no unsafe-browsing finding, no reported infrastructure abuse, and placement within the globally ranked top one million domains.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage presents CPAExchange as a conventional business-to-business advertising marketplace rather than a deposit-taking, investment, brokerage, or crypto service. It supplies a named chief executive, company registration information, a Moscow business address, telephone and email contact details, contractual payment requirements, and links to privacy and personal-data-processing documentation. No regulatory licence claim is established by the supplied page evidence; given the stated advertising model, this is a disclosure-status observation rather than evidence of illegitimacy. No conflicting legal-entity names or adverse broker-reputation match were identified.
- The homepage identifies Ekaterina Shinkevich as CPAExchange’s chief executive and presents company and office information alongside its corporate description.
- The homepage states that partner participation is limited to legal entities and that accepted traffic and conversions are settled through a contractual monthly-payment process.
- The site navigation includes privacy policy, consent to personal-data processing, contact, about, portfolio, presentation, and advertiser-brief resources.
- Hosting is provided from AS49505 (SELECTEL — JSC Selectel, Russia); transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by GlobalSign GCC R3 DV TLS CA 2020, valid until 31 August 2026.
What to Verify Next
Before entering a material advertising or publisher agreement, counterparties should match the contracting entity and payment instructions against the company particulars presented in the agreement, confirm official contact channels independently, and review the acceptance criteria governing lead validation, hold periods, rejected traffic, invoicing, and dispute resolution. Any sector-specific campaign—particularly finance, insurance, recruitment, or personal-data-driven lead generation—should also be assessed against the rules applicable to the advertiser, audience, and jurisdiction involved.
- The homepage advertises campaigns across regulated or data-sensitive verticals including finance, insurance, recruitment, education, automotive services, and real estate.
- The homepage states that application-quality review is subject to an average hold period of approximately two weeks.
- The partner and advertiser calls to action lead into separate commercial onboarding paths, making contract-role and payment-recipient checks relevant before engagement.
Summary Verdict
CPAExchange is a legitimate, established, and trustworthy corporate website with coherent business content, durable provenance, clean external reputation, and consistent identity signals. Normal interaction, including account login and standard platform use, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single likely origin address in Russia and does not use a detected CDN or WAF edge layer. The hosting arrangement is technically coherent and carries no observed abuse pattern, although direct-origin deployment does not itself establish business legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users may proceed with normal platform activity, applying standard commercial due diligence before committing material campaign budgets or signing binding agreements.
Written analysis generated 2026-07-31 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 55/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 60% |
- 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 cpaexchange.ru.
- The request stayed on cpaexchange.ru. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under RU-CENTER-RU. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ru., across 5 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-07-01. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2012-12-28. Clear
- It is hosted on SELECTEL, from a server in RU. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | RU-CENTER-RU |
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| Hosting | SELECTEL - JSC Selectel, RU |
| Country | RU |
| Server IP | 37.9.13.249 |
| Name servers | ns3-l2.nic.ru., ns4-cloud.nic.ru., ns4-l2.nic.ru., ns8-cloud.nic.ru., ns8-l2.nic.ru. |
| SSL issuer | GlobalSign GCC R3 DV TLS CA 2020 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-08-31 |
| Domain age | 15.1 years |
| Domain expiry | 2027-07-01 |
| Archive first seen | 2012-12-28 |
| Archive snapshots | 303 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about cpaexchange.ru 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.