Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
dcs-collab.land 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 |
| Web archive | Archived since 20261 snapshot | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | 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
Security Alert
Fortinet flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This website, served under the domain dcs-collab.land, is a very recently established web property whose public entry point currently presents visitors with a protective interstitial instead of ordinary content. The page is titled as a suspected-phishing warning, and the capture was refused with an access-denied response behind a bot challenge. Its commercial purpose and business model cannot be established from the content a visitor actually receives.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site carries a confirmed adverse reputation and is treated as blacklisted. Multiple independent threat-intelligence sources flag the domain as malicious, and a recognised tier-one security vendor is among them. The pattern of detections is consistent with a phishing designation, which matches the warning interstitial returned by the homepage. No brand impersonation and no conflicting legal identities were observed, so the risk rests on reputation and recency rather than on a documented identity contradiction. Behavioural testing found no wallet-drainer activity, clipboard hijacking, hidden forms or credential posts to external hosts. The site made heavy outbound network calls, including dozens of external data requests and several external POST submissions, and the browser console logged many errors. The domain was registered only months ago, so any detections are not offset by an operating history. Evidence:
- Homepage: the response was a suspected-phishing interstitial, with a 403 status behind a Cloudflare bot challenge.
- Domain registration: registered 2026-07-29 (~0.25 years old) through NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED.
- Web archive: 1 snapshot, captured 2026-08-02 (1 year tracked), so there is no continuous history.
- Behavioural testing (3 runs): 35 external XHR/fetch calls, 9 external POSTs and 32 console errors, with up to 95.8% of observed activity external. All destinations were whitelisted, and no wallet or form abuse was detected.
Regulatory Verification Notes
No legal, licensing or registration information could be reviewed, because the homepage presented only the interstitial. No operator, company name, jurisdiction or regulator can be tied to the site, and the registrant details are incomplete, which is ownership opacity and not an identity contradiction. No third-party broker or regulatory listing matched this domain. The absence of licensing information is a verification gap and is not in itself evidence of fraud, but it removes any institutional assurance that could counterbalance the adverse reputation. Evidence:
- Homepage: the only content captured was the warning interstitial (about 400 characters of text), with no legal, about or terms content.
- Broker and regulator reputation datasets: no match for this domain.
- Hosting: served from AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by WE1 (DV), valid to 2026-12-25. This confirms encryption only, not operator identity.
What to Verify Next
Any reason to engage with this domain should first be validated through an independent route, and it should not be reached through unsolicited links, messages or QR codes. The organisation the domain claims to represent should be identified from an independently known source. That organisation should then confirm in writing, through contact details obtained outside this site, that it operates this domain. Any licence or registration claimed should be checked directly with the relevant registry. Reputation status should be re-checked after a reasonable period, since a delisting or a confirmed false positive would change the assessment. Evidence:
- Homepage: the warning interstitial gives no operator name or contact channel to validate.
- Domain registration: created 2026-07-29, so no multi-year record exists to corroborate identity.
- Reputation: several independent sources currently flag the domain, so a re-check is the only way to see a change in standing.
Summary Verdict
The assessment is critical. Confirmed external threat detections, a very young domain with no archive history and no verifiable operator together put this site in a clearly high-risk posture. Positive technical hygiene does not offset the reputational evidence.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site sits behind Cloudflare's CDN and WAF, and all four observed addresses are edge nodes, so the origin server is not observable and hosting cannot be independently attributed. This protection is a mitigating factor only. It does not establish legitimacy, and it cannot offset the external threat detections. The same edge layer is also the source of the bot challenge that gated the page.
Closing Assessment
Treat the domain as unsafe for login, credential entry, wallet connection or any financial interaction. Limit contact to passive, read-only observation from an isolated environment, and do not download files from it. Institutions should block or quarantine it pending independent confirmation of the operator and a clean reputation re-assessment.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-29 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, hosting and network, history in the web archive, behaviour in a sandbox, registration and ownership.
01 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
02 Hosting and network
- The domain was registered less than three months ago.Hosting and network
rule:DNS_NEW_DOMAIN_90D
03 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
04 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
05 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 dcs-collab.land.
- The request stayed on dcs-collab.land. 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 2027-07-29. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-08-02. 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 | 2606:4700:3030::ac43:96ca |
| Name servers | sky.ns.cloudflare.com, quentin.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 | 2026-12-25 |
| Domain age | 0.25 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-07-29 |
| Archive first seen | 2026-08-02 |
| Archive snapshots | 1 |
| 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 dcs-collab.land 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.