Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
macroduck.fun 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 | 4 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 |
| Web archive | Archived since 20263 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
Overview
ZCAT is a newly registered, single-page website on a low-cost ".fun" domain. Its homepage is titled "ZCAT — Anonymous Cat" and presents a short block of branded, meme-style text. The page gives no clearly identifiable operator, product catalogue or service description, so its commercial purpose is not established from the captured content. The pattern is typical of a short-lived promotional or token-themed landing page.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
This site carries confirmed contradictions. Several independent threat-detection sources currently flag the domain as malicious or suspicious, and it is blacklisted by external reputation sources. That convergence is the decisive factor in the assessment, and the protective hosting layer described below does not offset it. No brand impersonation and no conflicting legal identities were observed, and no wallet-connection, wallet-draining or hidden-form behaviour appeared in the sandbox runs. The browser-behaviour tests did record that the homepage writes to the visitor's clipboard. The tests also showed that a large share of the page's network activity goes to third-party hosts, including outbound POST requests. None of those requests went to unrecognised destinations, but the clipboard write is a pattern that wallet-address-swapping schemes use. The domain's youth, its thin and very recent archive record and its sparse subdomain structure fit the profile of a disposable campaign site, and a young domain combined with confirmed detections is a recognised precursor to abuse. Taken together, the site should be treated as high-risk for any sensitive interaction. Evidence:
- Homepage: the page is titled "ZCAT — Anonymous Cat" and consists of a short text block of roughly 1,400 characters. It states no operator, product terms or service scope.
- Threat intelligence: four detection sources rate the domain malicious and one rates it suspicious, and an external blacklist listing is also active.
- Sandbox behaviour: the homepage triggers a clipboard write, and up to 92% of its network traffic goes to external hosts. Two external POST requests were seen across three successful runs.
- Domain provenance: the domain was registered on 2026-08-31 (~0.15 years old). The web archive holds only 3 snapshots, from 2026-09-11 to 2026-09-22.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site does not state any legal entity, licence, registration number or governance information, and the captured homepage has no dedicated legal or terms pages to assess. Registrant details are incomplete, which points to ownership opacity. That opacity is an administrative limitation and not an identity contradiction. The absence of regulatory disclosure is a verification gap and is not by itself evidence of fraud. Here it adds to a profile already driven by external threat detections, so no mitigating regulatory context exists. No third-party broker or regulator profile matches this site. The site's transport encryption is valid but is only a basic domain-validated certificate. It confirms an encrypted connection and says nothing about who operates the site. Evidence:
- Homepage: no company name, licence, jurisdiction or registration number is disclosed.
- Registration record: registered through Dynadot Inc on 2026-08-31 with a one-year term, expiring 2027-08-31. Registrant details are incomplete.
- Transport encryption: the TLS certificate was issued by WE1 (domain-validated) and is valid to 2026-11-29.
- Hosting: the site is served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US).
What to Verify Next
Before any engagement, an independent party should establish who operates the site and whether any entity stands behind the "ZCAT" name. Any claim about a token, product or community should be checked on official channels reached by an independent route, not through links on this site. If the site is linked to a token or wallet-based activity, wallet addresses and contract addresses should be compared character by character against sources outside the site. Clipboard-pasted values should not be trusted without that check. The official support and contact channels should also be confirmed offline. Where the site is being assessed for blocking or monitoring, a recheck of its threat-intelligence status after several weeks will show whether the current detections persist or are cleared. Evidence:
- Homepage: the page names no operator, so the operator must be established outside the site.
- Sandbox behaviour: the clipboard write seen on the homepage makes character-level comparison of copied addresses necessary.
- Registration record: the domain is only weeks old, so its history cannot yet confirm an established presence.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high-risk. Active threat-intelligence listings dominate the assessment, and the evidence base for legitimacy is thin: a very new domain, a sparse record and no verifiable operator. The site reads as a probable throwaway web property and not as an established, accountable entity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site sits behind Cloudflare's CDN and WAF, and every observed address is an edge node. The origin server could not be seen, so the real hosting location cannot be independently checked. The same masking also allows content to be swapped quickly without any visible change in hosting. The setup is mainstream and is a mitigating factor only. It offers protection against network-level attacks but does not speak to the legitimacy of the content or its operator, and it cannot offset the threat detections.
Closing Assessment
Account logins, credential entry, payments, wallet connections and any other financial interaction with this site should be avoided. If the site must be examined, read-only viewing in an isolated environment is the proportionate limit. Nothing should be downloaded from it, and no content should be copied from it for use elsewhere.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-25 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
- 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 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
05 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 macroduck.fun.
- The request stayed on macroduck.fun. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Dynadot Inc. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-08-31. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-09-11. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Dynadot Inc |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3033::ac43:a3c6 |
| Name servers | damiete.ns.cloudflare.com, isla.ns.cloudflare.com |
| CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) |
| Resolved IP addresses | 4 |
| Edge IP addresses | 4 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-29 |
| Domain age | 0.15 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-08-31 |
| Archive first seen | 2026-09-11 |
| Archive snapshots | 3 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 4 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about macroduck.fun 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.