Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
electrumdesktop.org 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 | 3 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 months oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Web archive | Archived since 20261 snapshot | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | 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 presents itself as "Electrum Bitcoin Wallet — Secure Desktop Bitcoin Wallet". It is a single-brand landing page for self-custody Bitcoin wallet software on a standalone domain. The site appears intended to attract visitors seeking a desktop cryptocurrency wallet and to direct them to wallet software. Any wallet it distributes would be a high-value target, because it controls the user's funds.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
This assessment is clearly cautionary. Multiple independent threat-intelligence sources currently flag the domain as malicious or suspicious, and it is blacklisted by external reputation sources. Separately, a record of prior phishing association is attached to it. The domain was registered only weeks ago, yet it trades on the name and positioning of an established, well-known wallet product. No evidence independently ties the operator to any genuine wallet project, and operator identity remains unverified. The pattern is typical of lookalike sites that distribute tampered wallet installers or harvest recovery phrases. The evidence does not show which, if either, is occurring here. Automated sandbox runs of the homepage did not observe wallet-drainer behaviour, clipboard tampering, hidden forms, or credential posts to external hosts, which is a mitigating observation. However, the page generated heavy third-party network traffic, almost all of it directed off-domain, and produced repeated browser console errors. That combination is unusual for a simple wallet landing page and suggests a loosely assembled site. No conflicting legal-entity names were found, so there is no identity contradiction. The contradictions are the blacklisting and the very recent registration of a domain presenting a high-trust crypto brand.
- Homepage: the page title and branding present the site as a secure desktop Bitcoin wallet, a category in which a counterfeit installer or phished seed phrase means total loss of funds.
- Domain registration: registered 2026-09-18 (~33 days old, 0.09 years).
- Web-archive depth: 1 archive snapshot, dated 2026-09-18 (1 year tracked), so there is no meaningful operating history.
- Homepage behaviour in three sandbox runs: all successful, no wallet-drainer, clipboard-hijack or hidden-form behaviour, but 9 console errors and 27 third-party XHR calls with about 98% of requests going off-domain.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The evidence shows no licence, registration, or legal-entity disclosure linking the site to an accountable operator. The page's on-site disclosure status could not be established as adequate. For a site distributing financial software, the absence of any corroborated operator identity is a verification gap in its own right. Domain registration details are privacy-redacted, which is treated here as an administrative limitation, not a security finding. Registration sits with a mainstream corporate registrar. A domain-validated TLS certificate is in place and encrypts traffic. It authenticates only control of the domain, not the legitimacy of the operator, so it carries little weight against the reputation findings. No third-party broker or regulator record was matched to this site, so no external regulatory context is available.
- Registrar: Key-Systems GmbH, with owner and organisation fields redacted for privacy.
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by YE1 (DV), valid to 2026-12-17 (56 days remaining).
- Hosting: served from AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- Homepage: no named company, licence, or registration identifier was surfaced in the analysed content.
What to Verify Next
The official project for this wallet should be located independently, by an offline route or through a source already known to be trustworthy, and its authoritative download location confirmed. The domain should then be compared with that official source. Any installer obtained from this site should be treated as untrusted. Where one was already downloaded, it should not be run. Its digital signature and published checksums should be checked against the official project's, and the device should be scanned. If wallet software from this site was installed or a recovery phrase was ever entered, funds should be moved to a freshly created wallet from a known-clean device. Official support and contact channels should be confirmed through the same independent route. Security teams may also wish to monitor for further lookalike domains.
- Domain age: the site's registration is very recent, so no long-standing reputation can corroborate its claims.
- Homepage: the presented brand is a wallet product whose authenticity can only be settled against the official project's own published signatures.
- Reputation: current malicious and suspicious detections remain active, so any later clean result should be treated as provisional until sustained.
Summary Verdict
The site carries an elevated, high-severity risk posture. Active external threat detections combine with a very young domain and an unverified operator that presents itself as a well-known wallet product. Beneficial technical hygiene does not offset this. Legitimacy cannot be inferred, and the site is unsuitable for any sensitive or financial interaction.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site sits behind a mainstream CDN and WAF with bot protection. All observed addresses are edge nodes, and no origin server was exposed, so the actual hosting location cannot be independently confirmed. This is a modest mitigating factor and not evidence of legitimacy. It does not reduce the reputation concerns, and it can make rapid content swaps harder to detect. The young domain with sparse subdomains is an unconfirmed heuristic and is not weighed as a confirmed risk.
Closing Assessment
Use should be limited to passive viewing. No wallet software, login, credential, seed phrase, or payment should be taken from or given to this site. Anyone seeking this wallet should obtain it only from the official project, reached through an independently verified route.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-22 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, 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 - The domain is young and has almost nothing else set up around it.Hosting and network
rule:DNS_SPARSE_YOUNG_DOMAIN
03 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
04 Registration and ownership
- The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN
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 electrumdesktop.org.
- The request stayed on electrumdesktop.org. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Key-Systems GmbH. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-09-18. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-09-18. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Key-Systems GmbH |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3032::6815:c1 |
| Name servers | aida.ns.cloudflare.com, carter.ns.cloudflare.com |
| CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) |
| Resolved IP addresses | 4 |
| Edge IP addresses | 4 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-17 |
| Domain age | 0.09 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-09-18 |
| Archive first seen | 2026-09-18 |
| Archive snapshots | 1 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 3 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about electrumdesktop.org 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.