Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
defilending-pool.vip 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 | 1 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 | 2 months oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE2 | Noted |
| Hosted by | AMAZON-02Server 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.
Full analysis
Overview
This website presents itself as a decentralized-finance lending service under the domain name "defilending-pool", and its single captured landing page carries only the title "Defi" and a short block of text. It appears intended to attract visitors to a crypto lending-pool offering. The captured page shows no substantial product documentation, team information or legal pages.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
This site carries a confirmed contradiction, which sets an elevated, cautionary posture. An external reputation source currently flags the domain as malicious, and its reputation checks returned one outright malicious and several suspicious detections. The site is therefore treated as blacklisted. The domain was registered only weeks ago, which fits the pattern of disposable infrastructure used to impersonate or imitate DeFi lending brands. A name built from generic terms like "defi", "lending" and "pool" on a low-cost ".vip" extension suits that pattern. Sandbox sessions found nothing that offsets the listing. The page made no outbound requests, showed no wallet-connection prompts, hidden forms, clipboard manipulation or cloaking, and returned stable responses. Such behavior only shows that nothing malicious fired during those sessions. It does not clear the reputation listing, and a thin page can be swapped for a malicious one quickly. No conflicting legal identities were found, because no legal entity is named on the captured page.
- Homepage and domain-level reputation: the external reputation sources flagged the domain as malicious or suspicious, producing a confirmed blacklist hit.
- Registration history: the domain was registered on 2026-08-19 through Gname.com Pte. Ltd. and is about 0.18 years old (roughly 67 days).
- Homepage behavior: three sandbox sessions all loaded successfully with no external requests, no wallet-connect activity and no cloaking.
- Homepage content: the page has only about 400 characters of text under the title "Defi", which gives a visitor no basis for judging the service.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The captured page names no operating company, jurisdiction, license or registration number. No terms, privacy or about pages were observed that could anchor an operator identity. For a site that implies a financial lending service, this is a verification gap in its own right. The gap alone would not prove misconduct, but here it adds to the blacklist hit and makes the operator's real-world identity impossible to establish from the site. No regulator or broker-review dataset matched this domain, so there is no independent standing to cite. The site presents no regulatory status, and none can be assumed.
- Homepage: no company name, license, registry number or physical address appears on the captured page.
- Hosting infrastructure: the site is served from AS16509 (Amazon-02, Amazon.com, Inc., US), a commodity hosting network that says nothing about operator identity.
- Transport encryption: the TLS certificate is domain-validated only, issued by YE2 and valid to 2027-01-16. It confirms an encrypted connection and does not confirm who runs the site.
What to Verify Next
The only sound course is to establish independently whether any genuine lending protocol operates under this name. Check the project's official channels, as listed by an established DeFi directory or the audited protocol's own verified documentation. Confirm that this domain is linked from those channels, and not merely resembling them. Confirm any claimed licensing with the relevant financial regulator's own registry, using the registry's search and not details taken from this site. Confirm official support and contact channels through an independent route. Do not rely on links, addresses or messages that originate from the site or from unsolicited promotions pointing to it.
- Domain provenance: a domain registered in August 2026 cannot back claims of a long operating history, so any such claim needs outside corroboration.
- Homepage: the page offers no verifiable documentation, audit references or governance information to check against.
- Reputation: the current external flags should be re-checked against live threat-intelligence sources before any decision on engagement.
Summary Verdict
The overall assessment is a high-risk, critical-trust posture. The domain is very new, its operator is unidentifiable, and an external reputation source has confirmed a blacklist listing. The technical hygiene observed is ordinary and does not alter that conclusion.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site sits behind Amazon-hosted CDN/WAF infrastructure, and the only observed address is an edge address. The origin server could not be observed. A valid certificate and mainstream hosting are mitigating factors only. They do not offset the reputation risk, and edge-only visibility prevents independent hosting verification and can mask rapid content swaps. The domain's young age and sparse subdomain footprint are unconfirmed heuristic indicators and are weighed only lightly.
Closing Assessment
The site should be treated as unsafe for any sensitive interaction. Visitors should not log in, enter credentials, connect a wallet, approve transactions or deposit funds, and the site should be viewed read-only, if at all. Anyone who reached the site through an advertisement, message or referral should treat that source as suspect too and report it to the appropriate platform or security team.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-26 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, registration and ownership.
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 - The hosting and network setup shows a moderate level of risk indicators.Hosting and network
rule:DNS_RISK_MED - The domain is young and has almost nothing else set up around it.Hosting and network
rule:DNS_SPARSE_YOUNG_DOMAIN
03 Registration and ownership
- The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN - Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE
Identity verification
| Status | UNKNOWN |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 50/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 15% |
- 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 defilending-pool.vip.
- The request stayed on defilending-pool.vip. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Gname.com Pte. Ltd.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by share-dns.net, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-08-19. Noted
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Gname.com Pte. Ltd. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 13.196.203.70 |
| Name servers | b4.share-dns.net, a4.share-dns.com |
| CDN / edge network | Detected (aws) |
| Resolved IP addresses | 1 |
| Edge IP addresses | 1 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-01-16 |
| Domain age | 0.18 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-08-19 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 1 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about defilending-pool.vip 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.