--- title: "Is hylofoundation.app a Scam? Trust Score 15/100" source: TrustSniffer type: Website trust & fraud report subject: "hylofoundation.app" verdict: "Critical Risk" title: "Is hylofoundation.app a Scam? Risk Report, Score 15/100" trust_score: 15 classification_confidence: 75 canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/hylofoundation.app assessed: 2026-10-22 --- # Is hylofoundation.app a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 15/100 ## Verdict **Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 15/100.** hylofoundation.app shows high-risk / scam indicators. This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site. Labels: Sensitive Interaction Risk, Governance Risk Assessed 2026-10-22 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 75%. ## 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. | Check | Result | Status | | --- | --- | --- | | Malware engines | None flagged it (VirusTotal) | Clear | | Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear | | Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidence (AbuseIPDB, 0 reports; shared hosting inflates reports) | Clear | | Domain age | 1 months old (Most scam domains are under a year old) | Risk | | Web archive | Archived since 2026 (1 snapshot) | Clear | | Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by YE2) | Noted | ## The page as captured ![Screenshot of the hylofoundation.app homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/hylofoundation.app/screenshots/first.png) _What hylofoundation.app served when TrustSniffer captured it on 2026-10-22. The page may look different now._ ## Key findings - Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk. - Domain age: less than 1 year (registration continuity). - Public web-archive history exists since 2026. - No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time. ## Full analysis ### Security Alert Fortinet flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution. This website is a minimal, single-page presence on a recently created ".app" domain whose name suggests a "Hylo Foundation" organisation. The page it presents is titled "FASTPANEL" and carries only a few lines of text. It shows no visible products, services, or other business content, so its apparent purpose and business model cannot be determined from the page itself. The mismatch between the foundation-style domain name and the unrelated control-panel-style page title leaves its real function unclear. ### Scam/Impersonation Risk The decisive contradiction is that the domain is **currently blacklisted** by external threat intelligence. A major security vendor flags it as a threat, and several further detection engines classify it as suspicious. Taken together, these detections amount to a confirmed adverse reputation, not an isolated or ambiguous alert. The surrounding profile does not mitigate it. The domain was registered only weeks before the assessment, and the web archive holds a single capture. The foundation-style naming therefore has no independent history that would substantiate a charitable or institutional identity. No brand impersonation and no conflicting legal identities were observed. The contradiction rests on the blacklisting and the domain's very recent, unestablished provenance. Behavioural testing found no wallet-connection prompts, clipboard manipulation, hidden forms, or credential forms posting to outside parties. The page's network activity is overwhelmingly directed at external services, and it generates a high volume of client-side errors. That is an unstable and opaque page profile, even though the outbound destinations were recognised ones. Evidence: - Homepage: external threat intelligence lists the domain as blacklisted, with one tier-one security vendor flagging it and two further engines marking it suspicious. - Domain provenance: registered 2026-09-16 (~0.1 years old), through NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED. - Web archive: 1 snapshot, captured 2026-09-17, with 1 year tracked and no prior history. - Homepage behaviour: 27 external XHR/fetch requests and 9 external POST requests across three test runs, with 9 console errors. No requests went to non-whitelisted destinations. ### Regulatory Verification Notes The material reviewed contains no company name, registration number, licence reference, terms page, privacy policy, or contact route that would tie the site to an accountable legal entity. The page text is too sparse for the site to be connected to a real-world organisation, and the identity of the operator remains unestablished. Registrant details are also incomplete, so ownership is opaque. This is an administrative limitation and not an identity contradiction. The missing disclosures are verification gaps and are not, on their own, evidence of wrongdoing. They are material here only because they coincide with the adverse reputation, so nothing on the site offsets that finding. No third-party broker or regulatory record was matched to the domain, so there is no external reputational context to weigh either way. Evidence: - Homepage: roughly 400 characters of text, with no entity, licensing, or jurisdiction statement. - Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by YE2 (DV, domain validation only), valid to 2026-12-15. This proves control of the domain and does not establish who operates it. - Hosting: served from AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US). - No third-party broker-reputation record matched the domain. ### What to Verify Next Before any engagement, the operator's identity should be established independently. If the organisation claims to be a foundation, check the legal entity in the relevant national or charity registry and confirm that the registry's listed website matches this domain exactly. Any claimed link to an existing "Hylo" project should be confirmed from that project's own officially published channels, not from this site. Official support and contact channels should likewise be confirmed through an independent, offline route. The blacklisting should be re-checked after a reasonable interval with several independent reputation services. A later delisting would still not establish the operator's identity. Evidence: - Homepage: no organisation, registration, or jurisdiction reference that can be looked up in a registry. - The page title and the domain name describe different things, so the intended purpose cannot be confirmed from the site. - Adverse external detections are active now, and no delisting evidence is present. ### Summary Verdict The overall posture is that of an elevated-risk, unestablished website. Confirmed adverse external detections, a very young domain with no track record, and an operator who cannot be identified converge on a clearly cautionary conclusion. The technical hygiene observed is ordinary and does not alter that conclusion. No evidence of legitimacy is strong enough to counterbalance the reputation findings. ### Infrastructure Integrity The site is delivered through Cloudflare's CDN and WAF, a mainstream and reputable provider. All observed addresses are edge nodes, and the origin server was not observable. Cloudflare's bot-protection layer was detected, and the site's responses were stable across test runs. These are mitigating factors only. They show competent delivery infrastructure and say nothing about the operator's intent or legitimacy. Edge-only visibility also prevents independent verification of the hosting and would allow content to be swapped quickly. The infrastructure therefore cannot offset the reputation risk. ### Closing Assessment The site should be treated as unsafe for any sensitive interaction. No credentials should be entered, no wallet connected, no payment or personal data submitted, and nothing downloaded from it. Any visit should be limited to passive viewing from an isolated, up-to-date browser. Organisations that encounter the domain in correspondence or advertising should treat the source as suspect and report it internally. _Written analysis generated 2026-10-22 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report._ ## What the analysis found 5 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by external reputation, hosting and network, history in the web archive, behaviour in a sandbox, 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`) ### 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`) - The page produced an unusually high number of errors while it ran. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_CONSOLE_ERRORS_HIGH`) ### 05 Registration and ownership - The public registration record for this domain is incomplete. (Registration and ownership `rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE`) ## Identity verification | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | 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 hylofoundation.app. - The request stayed on hylofoundation.app. 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 2027-09-16. (Noted) - The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-09-17. (Clear) - It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. (Noted) ## Domain intelligence | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Registrar | NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED | | Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US | | Country | US | | Server IP | 2606:4700:3036::6815:44d0 | | Name servers | ezra.ns.cloudflare.com, poppy.ns.cloudflare.com | | CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) | | Resolved IP addresses | 4 | | Edge IP addresses | 4 | | Likely origin IP addresses | 0 | | SSL issuer | YE2 | | SSL expiry | 2026-12-15 | | Domain age | 0.10 years (continuous registration) | | Domain expiry | 2027-09-16 | | Archive first seen | 2026-09-17 | | Archive snapshots | 1 | | Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports \| Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches | ## About this assessment **Was this report useful?** Tell other people what you think of TrustSniffer, good or bad. An honest review helps others decide whether to rely on these checks. 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