Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
gatelab.info shows high-risk / scam indicators.
| What this site appears to be | A crypto airdrop claim page styled as an official GateHub distribution portal. It asks visitors to enter an XRP address and authorize a claim via Xaman or Ledger to receive XAH, RLUSD, and a collectible NFT, under a countdown timer. Legal identity, auditors, and eligibility are asserted but not verifiable from the page. |
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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 | 12 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Listed as unsafeGoogle | Risk |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 0 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 18 days oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Web archive | Archived since 201339 snapshots | 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 2013.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet, Google, Kaspersky, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This website is a single-page crypto "airdrop" claim portal titled "GateHub Allocation Live — Claim Your XRPL Allocation." It is styled as an official distribution by the GateHub brand on the XRP Ledger. The page asks a visitor to type in an XRP address and authorize a claim through the Xaman or Ledger wallet. In return it promises three assets: an XAH tranche from the Xahau sidechain, an RLUSD stablecoin tranche, and a collectible NFT. The apparent purpose is to move visitors into a wallet-authorization step. No fee, funding source, or monetization model is stated.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
This is a high-risk, security-forward assessment. Several independent external detections converge on the site. A major browser-safety service flags it for social engineering, and a large number of independent security engines classify it as malicious, including several top-tier vendors. These detections form a confirmed blacklist condition, and the site's infrastructure cannot offset them. The page content points the same way. It presents an "officially live" Phase 2 mainnet distribution with polished but unverifiable statistics: a 1.25 billion allocation pool, 142,091 eligible wallets, 68.2% already claimed, and 1,204 "network nodes." A countdown timer shows a window closing in about 13 days. Trust badges such as "Encrypted Session Verified," "SHA-256 Portal Verification," "Consensus Secured by XRPL," and references to "audited contracts" and "independent XRPL security auditors" are never tied to a named auditor or report. This combination of urgency, authoritative-sounding branding, and wallet authorization as the only action is a recognized pattern in claim-based crypto fraud. Automated analysis did not confirm brand impersonation, and no conflicting legal identities were observed. The decisive risk comes from the external detections and the unverifiable, high-stakes claim structure. Sandbox runs found 6 external background requests and 3 external form submissions to non-allowlisted destinations, so claim-flow data may leave the site. The sandbox did not trigger wallet-draining behavior, but that does not show the live flow is safe.
- Homepage: the visible claim flow consists of an XRP address entry field and a wallet-authorization step via Xaman or Ledger. These are the only actions offered, and the form was classed as sensitive.
- Homepage: allocation statistics, the countdown, and the unnamed "audited contracts" claim cannot be corroborated anywhere on the site.
- Domain registered 2026-09-30 (~0.05 years, about 20 days old). Archive shows 39 snapshots spanning 2013–2026 (14 years tracked) with multi-year gaps, which indicates a recently re-registered name rather than continuous operation.
- Browser behavior: 3 external form submissions and 6 external background requests to non-allowlisted destinations, with up to 71.4% of external traffic in a single run, plus 3 console errors.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site discloses no operating legal entity, no registration or license number, no named auditor, and no contact or physical address. The page is the only content surface and carries no terms, privacy, or about pages that could establish accountability. The operator's identity has not been independently tied to GateHub or to any real-world person or company, and ownership and governance remain opaque. A distribution of this size, which promises a stablecoin and tokens, would normally be backed by verifiable issuer information. Here that information is missing. These are disclosure gaps, but they sit alongside the confirmed external detections and are not the sole basis for the cautionary conclusion. No third-party broker or regulatory-database record was matched for this site, so there is no outside reputational context to weigh.
- Homepage: no company name, license, registration number, auditor name, or contact channel appears anywhere on the page.
- Registrar of record is NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED, with registration expiring 2027-09-30. The registrant details are incomplete.
- TLS certificate issued by YE1 (DV, domain validation only), valid to 2026-12-29. DV encryption confirms the connection is encrypted, not who operates the site.
- Served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, US).
What to Verify Next
Before any wallet interaction, confirm independently whether a GateHub allocation exists. Use contact points already known to be official, such as the verified GateHub website, its official announcements, and its support team, reached by typing the address manually rather than through any link from this site. Check whether Xaman, Ledger, or the XRP Ledger community has published any notice about this distribution. Anyone who has already entered an address or signed an authorization on this portal should review and revoke wallet permissions and monitor the wallet for unexpected transactions. A claim of audited contracts should be backed by a named auditor and a publicly retrievable report before it is credited.
- Homepage: the promised XAH, RLUSD, and NFT tranches have no named issuer, contract reference, or published eligibility criteria that can be checked.
- Homepage: the "independent XRPL security auditors" claim names no firm and links to no report.
- Behavioral sandbox: the claim flow exchanged data with external destinations outside the site's own domain, so entered data should be treated as potentially exposed.
Summary Verdict
The available evidence supports a critical-risk posture. Multiple independent security sources have flagged the site, and its content is built around an unverifiable, time-pressured token claim with no accountable operator. These factors outweigh the site's technical hygiene, and the site is not consistent with a legitimate, verifiable distribution.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site sits behind Cloudflare's CDN/WAF, and all four observed IP addresses are edge servers, so the origin server was not observable. The domain has a valid TLS certificate from a recognized issuer. These are mitigating technical factors only and do not establish legitimacy. Edge-only visibility prevents independent verification of where the content is actually hosted, and it can mask rapid content swaps behind a stable-looking front end.
Closing Assessment
The site should not be used for login, wallet connection, address submission, or any financial interaction, and read-only viewing is the only proportionate use. Any claim of an official distribution should be confirmed through the brand's own verified channels before action is taken.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-20 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, page content, several checks together.
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 review of the page content rated it high risk.Page content
rule:PAGE_RISK_HIGH - The page shows few of the signs expected from a trustworthy operator.Page content
rule:PAGE_TRUST_QUALITY_LOW - The page content shows three or more warning signs that deceptive sites commonly use.Page content
rule:PAGE_RED_FLAGS_STRONG
03 Several checks together
- Several independent checks pointed to risk at the same time.Several checks together
rule:HYB_MULTIPLE_MODULES_HIGH_RISK
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 gatelab.info.
- The request stayed on gatelab.info. 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 2027-09-30. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2013-06-12. 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::6815:5680 |
| Name servers | betty.ns.cloudflare.com, jasper.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 | 2026-12-29 |
| Domain age | 0.05 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-09-30 |
| Archive first seen | 2013-06-12 |
| Archive snapshots | 39 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 12 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 1 match |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about gatelab.info 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.