Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
creditlink.live 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 | 13 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 | 1.6 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 202512 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | 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 2025.
- 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.
creditlink.live is a single-domain website whose homepage is titled "Creditlink". The name and the .live top-level domain present it as a credit- or finance-themed online service. The homepage carries only a short body of text, and the visible content does not establish a specific product, operator or business model.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
This is the decisive area of the assessment, and the posture is clearly cautionary. Several established security engines, including multiple tier-one vendors, currently classify the domain as malicious, and it is confirmed blacklisted across external reputation sources. That reputation outweighs the site's technically tidy presentation. The domain also has a thin and unsettled provenance: the current registration record is only weeks old, while web-archive captures reach back well before it. That pattern is consistent with a lapsed-and-re-registered domain or a reset registration record, and it fits poorly with a stable, continuously operated service. No brand impersonation and no conflicting legal identities were observed on the pages analysed. The risk therefore comes from external threat detections rather than from on-page identity contradictions. Behavioural testing of the homepage found no wallet-connection prompts, clipboard manipulation, hidden forms, externally posted password forms or content cloaking. These are mitigating observations only and do not offset the detections.
- Homepage reputation: 13 security engines flag the domain as malicious and 1 as suspicious, including Fortinet, Kaspersky and Sophos. Reputation coverage is complete, with no unevaluated providers.
- Domain registration: the current record shows the domain registered on 2026-09-02 (~0.14 years old, ~52 days), expiring 2027-09-02.
- Web archive: 12 snapshots span 2025–2026 (2 years tracked), first captured 2025-03-09 and last captured 2026-09-21. The earliest capture predates the current registration by about eighteen months.
- Behavioural sandbox on the homepage: three successful runs, stable HTTP 200 responses, no wallet-connect, clipboard-write or hidden-form activity, and no non-whitelisted external requests.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage identifies no operating company, registration number, licence or regulator. Given the credit and finance theme in the name, this is a material disclosure gap, although a missing licence is not by itself evidence of fraud. The registration record shows ownership opacity: the registrant details are hidden or incomplete. That is an administrative limitation and not an identity contradiction. Independent confirmation of the operator's real-world identity is not available, so no legitimacy is inferred from the site's own presentation. No third-party broker or regulator listing was found to corroborate any financial-services claim.
- Homepage: no named legal entity, licence reference or regulatory registration appears in the captured page text.
- Registrar: the domain is registered through NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED, with the registrant identity withheld or incomplete.
- Hosting: the site is served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- Transport encryption: the TLS certificate is issued by WE1 at DV level, valid to 2026-12-01 (37 days remaining at analysis). DV validation confirms control of the domain only, not the identity of the operator.
What to Verify Next
If the site claims any lending, credit-scoring or payment function, that claim should be checked against the official register of the relevant financial regulator. An operator name and licence number should be requested, and the register should be searched for them directly rather than through links on the site. Any institution the site claims to be affiliated with should be asked to confirm the relationship through channels listed on its own official website. Contact channels should be confirmed through an independent, offline route before any data is shared. The domain's external reputation should be re-checked after any remediation, because a clean result would be needed before the cautionary posture could be revisited.
- Homepage: the captured text names no entity, regulator or licence, so there is nothing on the page to cross-check against a registry.
- Registration history: the domain's registration reset in September 2026 and the registrant details are withheld, so ownership continuity cannot be assumed from the archive record.
- Reputation: the current external detections would need to clear before any assessment of the site could improve.
Summary Verdict
The site carries an elevated risk posture. Confirmed external threat detections decisively outweigh its clean technical hygiene and its short, unremarkable page content. Its provenance is unsettled and its operator is unidentified. It is therefore not suitable for any interaction involving credentials, account access or money.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site sits behind Cloudflare's CDN and WAF, and every observed address is a CDN edge node, so the origin server is not visible. This is a mitigating factor only, since it provides ordinary protection against abuse and denial of service. It cannot offset the reputation risk, and edge-only visibility prevents independent verification of where the content is actually hosted. It also allows the content behind the edge to be swapped quickly without any visible change in the network footprint.
Closing Assessment
The site should be treated as unsafe for logging in, entering credentials or making any financial or payment interaction. At most, passive read-only viewing is reasonable, and nothing should be downloaded from it. Anyone who has already shared information with the site should change any reused passwords and monitor the related accounts.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-25 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
3 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by governance, external reputation, registration and ownership.
01 Governance
- A threat feed lists this domain as malicious, and that caps the score whatever the other checks found.Governance
rule:GOV_CRITICAL_BLACKLIST
02 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
03 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 creditlink.live.
- The request stayed on creditlink.live. 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 2027-09-02. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2025-03-09. 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 | 2606:4700:3033::6815:2746 |
| Name servers | scott.ns.cloudflare.com, vivienne.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 | 2026-12-01 |
| Domain age | 1.63 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-09-02 |
| Archive first seen | 2025-03-09 |
| Archive snapshots | 12 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 13 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about creditlink.live 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.