Is packscan.co a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 0/100

packscan.co
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Verdict

This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.

0 OUT OF 100
Critical Risk

packscan.co shows high-risk / scam indicators.

Sensitive Interaction Risk Governance Risk

Assessed 2026-10-22 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 55%.

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 engines3 flagged itVirusTotalRisk
Google Safe BrowsingNot listedGoogleClear
Abuse reports on the host2% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 6 reports; shared hosting inflates reportsClear
Domain age22 days oldMost scam domains are under a year oldRisk
CertificateEncrypted connectionIssued by YR1Noted
Hosted byCOGENT-174Server in CANoted

The page as captured

https://packscan.co/
Screenshot of the packscan.co homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment
What packscan.co 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).
  • At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.

Full analysis

Security Alert

Fortinet, Kaspersky flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.

The website presents itself as "PackScan", an AI-driven crypto portfolio tracker. It is a single landing page with a text-based product pitch and no further pages. Its apparent purpose is to attract crypto holders to a portfolio-analytics service, which would typically involve linking wallets, exchange accounts or credentials.

Scam/Impersonation Risk

This is the dominant concern. Multiple independent threat-intelligence detections currently flag the domain, including detections from two major security vendors. The combined weight amounts to a confirmed blacklisting. The domain is also only weeks old, and a crypto-adjacent service on a freshly registered domain is the classic profile of short-lived fraud infrastructure. That profile matters more because the service category invites users to connect wallets or share portfolio access. No conflicting legal identities and no explicit brand impersonation were observed. The site also showed none of the on-page attack behaviours that sometimes accompany such listings. It showed no wallet-drainer routines, clipboard manipulation, hidden or externally posting credential forms, or content cloaking. Its outbound traffic stayed within expected third-party services. These observations lower the likelihood of an active on-page exploit during the observed sessions. They do not offset the external detections. Six abuse reports also exist against the hosting address, but they attach to a shared provider address and are a weaker, contextual signal. Evidence:

  • Homepage hosting domain: registered 2026-09-28 via Namecheap (~23 days old, 0.06 years); the very young age is a material risk amplifier for a financial-adjacent service.
  • Domain reputation: 3 malicious and 3 suspicious verdicts from the multi-engine scan, including two top-tier security vendors, plus an external blacklist hit.
  • Hosting address 170.75.160.175: 6 abuse reports from one distinct reporter, attributed to shared provider infrastructure (Lunanode), with a low abuse-confidence rating.
  • Homepage behavioural sessions (3 of 3 completed): no wallet-connect activity, no clipboard writes, no hidden forms, no cloaking, and no non-whitelisted external requests.

Regulatory Verification Notes

The site's real-world operator has not been independently connected to any named company or individual, and no regulatory standing could be established from the available evidence. The homepage presents an investment-adjacent crypto analytics proposition, and sites of this kind often fall under financial-services or virtual-asset oversight depending on the jurisdiction. No third-party broker or regulatory-database entry corresponds to this domain. The absence of such an entry is not a finding by itself. It means there is no independent reputational or licensing context to counterbalance the detections described above. Evidence:

  • Homepage: the page title describes an "AI Crypto Portfolio Tracker", a service category that may carry licensing or registration obligations.
  • No matching entry in the broker-reputation dataset, so no third-party regulatory context is available.
  • Transport encryption: a basic domain-validated TLS certificate issued by YR1, valid to 2026-12-27. It proves only that the connection is encrypted, not who operates the site.

What to Verify Next

Any use beyond passive reading should first rest on independent confirmation of who operates the service. Confirm the operating legal entity and any financial or virtual-asset registration directly with the relevant national registry, using contact details obtained from that registry and not from the site. Check whether the product name and domain are referenced by credible independent sources, such as established crypto-industry directories or reputable community discussion. Confirm the official support and contact channels through an independent, offline route. Re-check the domain's threat-intelligence status before any interaction, since listings can be cleared or escalated. Evidence:

  • Domain registered 2026-09-28; any claim of an established track record on the site should be checked against this date.
  • Current external detections on the domain should be re-queried at the time of any planned interaction.
  • The homepage is the only observed page, so there is no on-site legal or about page to cross-check against a registry.

Summary Verdict

The assessment is critical and clearly cautionary. Confirmed external threat detections, combined with the domain's extreme youth and its financially sensitive service category, outweigh the technically sound but unremarkable elements, such as a valid certificate and benign observed page behaviour. The site should be treated as high-risk for any sensitive interaction. Its real-world operator remains unverified.

Infrastructure Integrity

The site resolves to a single IP address served over Cogent Communications' network (AS174, also associated with AS394745 and the LN01 hosting label), registered with ARIN and located in Canada. No CDN or WAF edge layer was detected, so the hosting address is directly exposed, and protective infrastructure offers no mitigation here. The unconfirmed infrastructure heuristics (fragmentation, a sparse footprint typical of young domains, and few subdomains) are consistent with a recently stood-up deployment. They do not change the verdict.

Closing Assessment

Interaction should be limited to passive, read-only viewing. No account login, credential entry, wallet connection, API-key sharing or financial transaction should take place on this site while the external detections remain in force.

Written analysis generated 2026-10-22 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, hosting and network, 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 hosting and network setup shows a moderate level of risk indicators.Hosting and network rule:DNS_RISK_MED
  • The domain is young and has almost nothing else set up around it.Hosting and network rule:DNS_SPARSE_YOUNG_DOMAIN

03 Registration and ownership

  • The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN
  • Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check.Registration and ownership rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE

Signals weighed against the site

  • AbuseIPDB: 6 reports on hosting IP 170.75.160.175 (Lunanode Hosting Inc., Fixed Line ISP), 2% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.

Identity verification

StatusUNKNOWN
Identity score50/100
Identity verification confidence15%
  • 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 packscan.co.

  • The request stayed on packscan.co. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
  • Registration is published under NAMECHEAP INC. Clear
  • DNS for this domain is served by registrar-servers.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
  • The registration is paid up to 2027-09-28. Noted
  • It is hosted on COGENT-174, from a server in CA. Noted

Domain intelligence

RegistrarNAMECHEAP INC
HostingCOGENT-174 - Cogent Communications, LLC, US
CountryCA
Server IP170.75.160.175
Name serversDNS1.REGISTRAR-SERVERS.COM, DNS2.REGISTRAR-SERVERS.COM
CDN / edge networkNot detected
Resolved IP addresses1
Edge IP addresses0
Likely origin IP addresses1
SSL issuerYR1
SSL expiry2026-12-27
Domain age0.06 years (continuous registration)
Domain expiry2027-09-28
Archive first seenNot available
Archive snapshotsNot counted (archive lookup incomplete)
ReputationVirusTotal: 3 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 2% confidence, 6 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches

About this assessment

A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about packscan.co 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.

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Act fast. The sooner your bank knows, the better the chance of stopping the payment.

  1. Call your bank or card company now. Use the number on the back of your card. Ask them to stop or reverse the payment.
  2. Paid with crypto? Contact the exchange or wallet app you sent it from today. Give them the address you paid.
  3. Signed in or shared a password? Change it now, on every site where you use it, and turn on two-step sign-in.
  4. Report it to the police. In the US you can also report at reportfraud.ftc.gov and ic3.gov. In other countries, use your national police or fraud reporting service.
  5. Keep the evidence. Save screenshots, receipts, emails and chat messages. Your bank and the police will ask for them.
  6. Ignore anyone who offers to get your money back for a fee. These "recovery" offers are often a second scam.

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Common questions about packscan.co

Is packscan.co a scam?

TrustSniffer's assessment of packscan.co found strong scam indicators. It scored 0 out of 100 on 2026-10-22, which is the critical-risk band. The specific signals are listed in the evidence above.

Is packscan.co safe to use?

This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.

What is the trust score of packscan.co?

packscan.co scored 0 out of 100 on 2026-10-22, which places it in the critical-risk band. The score is built from the domain's age and registration history, its hosting and certificate, the content of the site itself, and third-party reputation data. There is no human rating and no user review in it.

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By AminRez, Founder & Lead Security Researcher, TrustSniffer
Produced by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine · assessed 2026-10-22 · how we assess · report a mistake