Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
dex-alienbase.com 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 | 14 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, Kaspersky, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This website presents itself as "Alien Base", described on its homepage as "The #1 DEX, AMM & DeFi Protocol on Base Network". It is a decentralized-exchange style front end whose apparent purpose is to draw visitors into token swapping and other DeFi activity on the Base blockchain. The domain was registered only recently, and the page is a single-page application with substantial promotional text.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
This site carries confirmed contradictory signals, and the assessment is clearly cautionary. Several leading security vendors independently classify the domain as malicious, and one further vendor rates it suspicious. The detection volume alone triggers an automatic override on the assessment. The domain is therefore blacklisted by external threat intelligence. The detections are not attributed to a specific threat category, so the exact nature of the abuse is unspecified. The cluster of flags is consistent with a hastily launched lookalike or phishing-style DeFi front end. The brand-style hostname, with its "dex-" prefix, and the homepage's "#1 DEX" superlative are exactly what such operations use to borrow credibility. No conflicting legal identities were observed, and the sandbox did not detect wallet-draining routines, clipboard tampering, hidden credential forms, or cloaking. Those clean behavioural results lower the likelihood of automated theft on page load, but they do not offset the external detections. Any wallet-connection or token-approval prompt a visitor reaches later is the point of greatest exposure, because the harm in this category occurs at transaction signing rather than on page load. Evidence:
- Homepage: promotes itself as "The #1 DEX, AMM & DeFi Protocol on Base Network", an unverifiable superlative presented with no supporting attribution.
- Domain provenance: registered 2026-07-31 (~0.25 years old) through the registrar Atak Domain, with a generic "Domain Administrator" registrant.
- Web-archive depth: 1 snapshot, captured 2026-08-05 (1 year tracked), so no historical continuity supports the brand claims.
- Reputation checks: 14 malicious and 1 suspicious verdicts across the security-vendor panel, including three tier-one vendors, with no Google Safe Browsing hit.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site is not covered by any third-party broker or regulator dataset, and no regulatory standing can be associated with it. The identity of the real operator could not be independently connected to any known brand or person, so any legitimacy claim made on the page remains unsubstantiated. Whether the homepage discloses a licensed entity, registration number, or legal contact point is unclear. In light of the external detections, the absence of such disclosure should be treated as consistent with the elevated risk and not as a neutral administrative gap. The site's protocol claims have no independent corroboration. Evidence:
- Homepage and site-level content: no operator, licence, or corporate registration details could be established from the captured page.
- Hosting: served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- Transport security: TLS certificate issued by WE1 (DV, domain validation only), valid to 2026-12-27. DV confirms control of the domain, not the identity of the operator.
- Third-party broker coverage: no matching broker record exists.
What to Verify Next
Before any engagement, the protocol's genuine official domain should be established through independent, offline-verified channels, such as the project's documented announcements or an established aggregator listing, and compared character by character with this hostname. If a genuine protocol exists, any link that leads here should be treated as a potential diversion. The official support and contact channels should likewise be confirmed independently, not through details published on this site. Wallets that have already connected to this site should have their token approvals reviewed and revoked using a trusted approvals tool. Any transaction history involving the domain should be retained. Evidence:
- Homepage: the presented claims have no independent corroboration of the protocol's identity or ownership.
- Registration record: a three-month-old domain with a generic registrant offers no established ownership trail to rely on.
- Reputation checks: the external detections remain active and unresolved at the time of analysis.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high risk. Confirmed adverse reputation from multiple independent security sources outweighs the site's technically tidy presentation, its valid certificate, and the clean sandbox behaviour observed. The domain is very new, has no meaningful history, and has no verified link to a real operator. Trust cannot be extended for sensitive or financial activity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site sits behind Cloudflare's CDN and WAF, and every observed address is a Cloudflare edge address. The real origin server was not observable. That arrangement is standard and mitigates some exposure to hosting-level attacks, but it also hides where the content is actually served from and allows the content to be swapped quickly. Protective infrastructure is a mitigating factor only, and it cannot offset the reputation findings.
Closing Assessment
The site should be treated as read-only at most, and preferably avoided altogether. No wallet should be connected to it, no transaction or token approval signed, no credentials or seed phrase entered, and no funds committed. Anyone seeking the genuine protocol should reach it only through a source independently confirmed to be official.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-29 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
4 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by external reputation, hosting and network, history in the web archive, behaviour in a sandbox.
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
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 dex-alienbase.com.
- The request stayed on dex-alienbase.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Atak Domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-07-31. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-08-05. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Atak Domain |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3037::6815:2ede |
| Name servers | ELIJAH.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, TEAGAN.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 | 2026-12-27 |
| Domain age | 0.25 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-07-31 |
| Archive first seen | 2026-08-05 |
| Archive snapshots | 1 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 14 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about dex-alienbase.com 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.