Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
lc-collab.land 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 | 11 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 | 2 months oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | Noted |
| Hosted by | CLOUDFLARENETServer in US | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: less than 1 year (registration continuity).
- 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.
lc-collab.land is a newly registered website on the ".land" top-level domain, fronted by a major content-delivery network. Analysis of its homepage found no identifiable products, services, branding or business model, so its purpose cannot be established from the site itself. What it does present to a visitor is a page that loads external resources heavily and runs an inline script that the behavioral analysis flagged as suspicious.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
Contradictory signals are present, and they are decisive. Several tier-one security vendors currently flag the domain as malicious, and a further group of engines marks it suspicious. This amounts to a confirmed blacklist-level external detection. The site has no countervailing reputation: it has no established traffic ranking and no recognition as a known brand or platform. Its registration is only a few months old, which is typical of disposable or campaign-style infrastructure. The behavioral analysis adds corroboration. Nearly all of the homepage's activity is directed at third-party hosts, a suspicious inline script was observed, and the page issued several outbound POST requests. None of those requests went to hosts outside the known-benign set, and no wallet-drainer, clipboard-hijack, hidden-form or credential-forwarding behavior was seen. The malicious classifications therefore rest chiefly on external vendor detections, not on a demonstrated exploit in the sandbox. No conflicting legal identities and no specific brand impersonation were observed. The elevated assessment comes from the vendor detections, the very recent registration and the page's behavior, not from an identified impersonation target. Evidence:
- Homepage and domain reputation: 11 security engines classify the domain as malicious and 2 as suspicious, including three tier-one vendors.
- Domain registration: created 2026-08-15 (~0.2 years old), which makes it a very young domain.
- Homepage behavior: about 97% of observed activity was external, with 3 external POST requests and 1 suspicious inline script across 3 sandbox runs.
- Homepage behavior: no wallet-connection, clipboard-write, hidden-form or external password-form activity was recorded.
Regulatory Verification Notes
No legal, terms, privacy or about content could be assessed. The site therefore offers no named operating entity, licence or registration number to evaluate. Registrant details are incomplete and the registration is privacy-limited, which is ownership opacity and an administrative limitation, not an identity contradiction. No third-party regulatory or broker listing exists for the domain, so there is no external confirmation of any regulated status. The technical hygiene is ordinary and does not offset the reputational findings: the transport encryption is valid, and the site is served from a recognised network. Evidence:
- Domain registration: registered through NICENIC International Group Co., Limited, with registrant details incomplete; registration runs to 2027-08-15.
- Transport encryption: a domain-validated TLS certificate issued by WE1, valid to 2027-01-11 (76 days remaining at analysis). Domain validation confirms only control of the domain, not the operator's identity.
- Hosting: served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- Third-party broker coverage: no matching entry was found.
What to Verify Next
Verification here concerns whether the external detections can be cleared. It does not concern establishing credibility. The domain's origin and the entity behind it should be established through an independent channel before any engagement, for example by confirming the address through an official, offline route from the organization it claims to represent. If the site was reached through a message, advertisement or social-media link, the sender and the originating channel should be authenticated separately. Anyone who has already interacted with the domain should treat that session as potentially exposed and review any accounts or devices involved. Any official support or contact channels should be confirmed independently of this site. Evidence:
- Domain registration: the very recent creation date means no long operating history can be relied on.
- Homepage reputation: the malicious classifications from multiple tier-one vendors remain active and unresolved.
- Registrant data: the registrant is incomplete, so ownership cannot be confirmed from the registration record.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is clearly adverse. Active external threat detections from multiple leading vendors, together with a very recently created domain and unexplained third-party-heavy page behavior, produce a high-risk assessment that technical hygiene cannot offset. No credible, verifiable legitimacy signal exists to counterbalance this, and the real-world operator remains unidentified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is served entirely through Cloudflare's CDN and web-application firewall. Every observed address is a Cloudflare edge address in the United States, and no origin server could be observed. Cloudflare is a reputable provider, and the valid transport encryption is a minor mitigating factor. However, this infrastructure is available to anyone, so it says nothing about the operator's legitimacy. Edge-only visibility also prevents independent verification of the true hosting location and allows content to be swapped quickly without any visible infrastructure change. The infrastructure does not offset the active threat detections.
Closing Assessment
The domain should be treated as unsafe for any sensitive interaction. Account login, credential entry, wallet connection and any payment or financial transaction should be avoided. Viewing the page at all should be limited to an isolated, non-production environment. Links to this domain received from unsolicited messages should not be followed, and the domain should be reported to the internal security team and blocked until the external detections are cleared.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-26 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
03 Behaviour in a sandbox
- The page carried inline scripts written in a style TrustSniffer treats as suspicious.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_SUSPICIOUS_INLINE_SCRIPTS - 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 | 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 lc-collab.land.
- The request stayed on lc-collab.land. 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 2027-08-15. Noted
- 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 | 2606:4700:3035::ac43:9e2e |
| Name servers | ivy.ns.cloudflare.com, kareem.ns.cloudflare.com |
| CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) |
| Resolved IP addresses | 8 |
| Edge IP addresses | 8 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-01-11 |
| Domain age | 0.20 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-08-15 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 11 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about lc-collab.land 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.