Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
exo-api.tf shows high-risk / scam indicators.
| What this site appears to be | Very short redirect page informing the user they will be redirected and providing a click-through link. No additional content, forms, or contact information. |
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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 | 22 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 | 9 months oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Watch |
| Web archive | Archived since 20265 snapshots | 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.
The website is a minimal redirect/interstitial page that tells visitors they will be redirected and provides a click-through link, without presenting an identifiable business, product, service, or monetization model.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site presents a critical interaction risk. A confirmed blacklist status and multiple independent malicious detections are decisive contradictions, even though the visible page contains no login form, payment form, or explicit impersonation claim. The redirect behavior, absence of destination context, and observed mismatch between the initial page and its final destination materially reduce the ability to assess what a visitor will reach. The page itself is therefore not sufficient to establish a legitimate purpose, and the site should not be treated as suitable for credentials, downloads, financial activity, or other sensitive interaction.
- The homepage contains approximately 67 characters of text—“Redirecting,” an automatic-redirection notice, and a click-through instruction—with no business description or destination context.
- The homepage uses a meta-refresh or JavaScript redirect; behavioral analysis recorded a final-destination mismatch and suspicious network behavior.
- External reputation assessment recorded 22 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection, with the domain listed by multiple security providers and confirmed blacklist sources.
- Registration continuity records the domain as 0.76 years old, while historical coverage comprises 5 snapshots across 1 tracked year, from 2026-06-14 to 2026-06-14.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available page does not identify an operating entity, regulated activity, license, registration number, terms, or other legal disclosure. Because the site is only an interstitial, its regulatory status and the identity of any underlying operator cannot be independently established from the presented content. This is a transparency and verification gap separate from the confirmed blacklist concern. No matching broker reputation record was identified, but that absence is not a legal, licensing, or safety determination.
- The homepage provides no company name, address, legal notice, licensing statement, registration number, or contact information.
- The site is served on AS13335 by CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- The transport certificate is DV, issued by WE1, valid to 2026-11-13T17:15:16+00:00.
- The domain’s registrar is KEY-SYSTEMS GmbH, with registration expiry recorded as 2026-10-30T01:43:54Z.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, independently identify the final destination and confirm that it belongs to a named organization through an official registry or an independently obtained corporate contact route. Any claimed license or regulated service should be checked directly with the relevant regulator, and the destination should be assessed separately rather than relying on the redirect page. Until those checks clear the site, credentials, downloads, payments, and financial transactions should not be initiated.
- The homepage contains no verifiable operator identity or business-purpose statement.
- No license authority or license number is presented in the available site content.
- The page contains no forms, but that does not establish the safety of the destination reached after redirection.
- The observed redirect and destination-mismatch behavior require destination-level verification.
Summary Verdict
The website has a critical trust posture and should be regarded as unsuitable for sensitive interaction. Its apparent purpose and operator identity remain unverified, while the confirmed external threat detections materially outweigh the limited positive technical signals.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, and the observed addresses are CDN edge addresses rather than an independently visible origin. This can mitigate direct exposure of the underlying server, but it is only an infrastructure safeguard and does not offset the site’s reputation risk. The hosting infrastructure is associated with AS13335.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate enterprise posture is to block or isolate the site pending independent clearance of its final destination, operator identity, and threat status; no credentials, files, payments, or other sensitive data should be exchanged with it.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-06 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, page content, 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 Page content
- The page shows few of the signs expected from a trustworthy operator.Page content
rule:PAGE_TRUST_QUALITY_LOW - The page has very little readable content.Page content
rule:PAGE_CONTENT_THIN - The browser raised a warning while loading the page.Page content
rule:PAGE_BROWSER_FLAGS_SUSPICIOUS
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 public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
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 exo-api.tf.
- The request stayed on exo-api.tf. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under KEY-SYSTEMS GmbH. Clear
- The registration is paid up to 2026-10-30. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-06-14. 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 | 2606:4700:3035::6815:54a9 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) |
| Resolved IP addresses | 4 |
| Edge IP addresses | 4 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-13 |
| Domain age | 0.76 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-10-30 |
| Archive first seen | 2026-06-14 |
| Archive snapshots | 5 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 22 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about exo-api.tf 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.