Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
crypto-scx.netlify.app shows high-risk / scam indicators.
| What this site appears to be | The page displays a Netlify 'Site not found' 404 error for a requested path, pointing visitors to Netlify's support guide and a free hosting sign-up prompt. It contains no login, payment, or data-collection elements, and the site's owner and purpose cannot be determined from the content. |
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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 | 2 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 2 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 15 days oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Web archive | Archived since 20261 snapshot | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: less than 1 year (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2026.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This website is a bare hosting-platform "Site not found" error page. It is served from a subdomain of a free site-hosting service, and the name pairs "crypto" with an opaque abbreviation. A visitor sees only a notice that the requested path does not exist, a pointer to the platform's troubleshooting guide, and a call to action to build and deploy a site for free. No products, services, operator name, login, payment flow or monetisation model are visible, so the site's purpose cannot be determined from its content.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
Contradictory signals are present, and they outweigh the empty page. Several independent threat-intelligence engines flag the address as malicious or suspicious, and an external blacklist listing is confirmed. The address is a lookalike of the hosting platform's own brand, and brand-impersonation checks flagged it as a suspected imitation. The visible page does not match what the browser sandbox observed. Although the page shows only an error notice and no forms, all three sandbox runs detected hidden form elements, including password-type fields, and a very large volume of page changes after interaction. A page that looks inert while holding concealed credential-capture structures is a recognised staging pattern for credential-harvesting kits, and it is consistent with a placeholder that can be swapped for live content. The crypto-themed name raises the stakes for wallet or exchange-login lures, although no wallet interaction or crypto content was observed. Two abuse reports exist against an edge address in the shared cloud-delivery network. Those reports apply to shared provider infrastructure, are given no weight against this site, and do not drive this assessment. No conflicting legal identities were found, because no legal identity is stated at all. Evidence:
- Homepage: shows only a hosting-platform 404 notice with no forms, yet the sandbox recorded hidden forms and password-type fields in 3 of 3 runs.
- Homepage: sandbox recorded about 4,130 DOM mutations after interaction, and roughly 99.6% of network activity was external to the page itself.
- Domain provenance: about 15 days of observed history (~0.04 years), with a single archive snapshot (first and last seen 2026-10-05, 1 year tracked).
- Reputation: 2 engines malicious, 1 suspicious, plus a confirmed external blacklist listing.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents no legal, terms, privacy or about pages, and it names no operating company, registration number or licence. It makes no claim to be a regulated financial service, and none could be confirmed. The operator cannot be independently connected to any real-world brand or person, so no legitimacy conclusion can be drawn. No third-party broker or regulatory-database match exists for this site, and none is treated as a verdict. Governance transparency is poor because the site discloses nothing about who runs it. That gap is a verification limitation and is not itself evidence of wrongdoing. The risk posture rests on the contradictory signals described above. Evidence:
- Homepage: no company name, licence, registration or contact details are disclosed anywhere on the observed page.
- Hosting: served from AS16509 (AMAZON-02, Amazon.com, Inc., US).
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 (OV), subject organisation Netlify, Inc, valid to 2027-03-19. It vouches for the hosting platform, not the site's operator.
What to Verify Next
Any engagement should be preceded by independently identifying who operates the site. If an operator, brand or product is claimed in a message, advertisement or referral that led here, it should be confirmed through that brand's official channels reached by an independent route, not through this address. Licensing or registration status for any financial or crypto service claimed should be checked with the relevant national registry, and the absence of any claim here means there is nothing on the site to check against. Re-testing the address later would show whether the placeholder has been replaced with live content, such as a login or wallet-connection interface. Evidence:
- Homepage: no operator, product or service claim is available to verify.
- Homepage: hidden password-type form structures were observed, so any later content change should be treated as a credential-capture risk.
- Hosting platform: the free-hosting call to action indicates the address can be repurposed without any identity checks.
Summary Verdict
The assessment is a clearly elevated risk. Confirmed blacklist-level detections, a suspected brand lookalike and concealed form structures behind an empty page together outweigh the neutral appearance of the visible content. The operator's identity is unverified, and nothing supports a legitimate-operator reading.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is delivered through Amazon's cloud CDN/WAF layer, and all four observed addresses are edge servers. The origin was not observable, so the real hosting location cannot be independently confirmed, and this limits how far content changes can be tracked. The DNS profile is otherwise ordinary and the certificate is valid. These are mitigating factors only. They show the platform is mainstream, not that this site is trustworthy, and they cannot offset the reputation findings.
Closing Assessment
The address should be treated as read-only at most. No login, credential entry, wallet connection or financial interaction is appropriate, and any link or message directing a user here should be treated as unsolicited and handled through the organisation's security reporting process.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-21 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
5 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by external reputation, behaviour in a sandbox, hosting and network, history in the web archive, page content.
01 External reputation
- Several malware engines flagged this domain.External reputation
rule:EXT_BLACKLIST_HIGH
02 Behaviour in a sandbox
- The page contained a form a visitor cannot see.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_HIDDEN_FORMS
03 Hosting and network
- The domain was registered less than three months ago.Hosting and network
rule:DNS_NEW_DOMAIN_90D
04 History in the web archive
- The web archive has almost no record of this domain, which fits a site that is new.History in the web archive
rule:ARCH_PEN_YOUNG_AND_SPARSE
05 Page content
- The page appears to present itself as a known brand it is not verified to belong to.Page content
rule:PAGE_BRAND_SUSPECTED
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 2 reports on hosting IP 2a05:d014:58f:6200::259 (Amazon Data Services Ireland Ltd, Content Delivery Network), 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 crypto-scx.netlify.app.
- The request stayed on crypto-scx.netlify.app. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-10-05. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2a05:d014:58f:6200::259 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| CDN / edge network | Detected (aws) |
| Resolved IP addresses | 4 |
| Edge IP addresses | 4 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-03-19 |
| Domain age | 0.04 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2026-10-05 |
| Archive snapshots | 1 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 2 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about crypto-scx.netlify.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.