Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
pancakeswap.st shows high-risk / scam indicators.
| What this site appears to be | The PancakeSwap homepage promotes a multi-chain DEX offering token swaps, liquidity pools with variable APRs, perpetuals with up to 1001x leverage, prediction markets, lottery, and fiat on-ramp features. It links to documentation, audits, a bug bounty, terms of service, and support. No deceptive, impersonation, or credential-harvesting signals were found in the supplied text. |
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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 | 22 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 9% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 3 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 26 days oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Web archive | Archived since 20263 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE2 | 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
Security Alert
Fortinet, Kaspersky, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This website presents itself as the PancakeSwap decentralized exchange: a multi-chain, wallet-connected trading front end that offers token swaps, liquidity pools, leveraged derivatives, gaming-style products, staking and a fiat on-ramp. Its apparent business model is to earn trading fees from swaps and liquidity pools and to promote the CAKE token through incentives. It sits on a domain that was registered only weeks before this assessment.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The assessment is cautionary, and the contradictions are serious. The domain appears on a confirmed blacklist. A broad group of security engines, including several tier-one vendors, classify it as malicious, and this is the decisive factor in the verdict. Page content and behavior do not show a conventional phishing kit. The homepage has no credential forms, no hidden forms, and no clipboard-hijack or wallet-drainer behavior in the sandbox runs. The page text also does not claim to be another brand. That absence of on-page deception does not offset the external detections, because a freshly registered domain can serve a clean-looking page and swap its content later. The site uses the name of a well-known DeFi protocol, but nothing independently ties this domain to that protocol's real operators (the site's own claims are not proof of identity). No conflicting legal entities were found, so there is no identity contradiction.
The products and claims on the homepage raise the stakes. The page advertises perpetual contracts with leverage of up to 1001x on BTC and up to 250x on ETH, a prediction market that publishes a "last top winner" payout, and a daily lottery. It also shows liquidity pools with advertised returns of up to 232.77% APR. These are classic hooks for drainer and fake-exchange campaigns. The page also asserts "used by millions" and "trusted with billions," and it shows stat counters for users, trades and locked value. Nothing on the page backs these up. The chain count is also inconsistent: one headline says 11 chains and another says 12. In the sandbox, the page generated a large volume of outbound requests, including some to non-allowlisted destinations, which fits the suspicious-network interpretation. The IP address serving the site also has a small number of abuse reports, but that address is shared provider infrastructure, so these reports carry limited weight on their own.
- Homepage: shows leverage of up to 1001x on BTC and up to 250x on ETH, a lottery, a prediction market, pool returns of up to 232.77% APR, and the unsubstantiated "trusted with billions" claim.
- Domain registration: the domain was registered in September 2026 (about 0.07 years old, roughly 26 days at assessment), which is incompatible with the long operating history the page implies.
- Web archive: 3 snapshots, all captured in September 2026 between the 23rd 06:11 UTC and 08:11 UTC (1 year tracked). This is a very thin footprint for a site claiming millions of users.
- Public DeFi protocol directory: the domain is not recognized there, despite the advertised locked-value figure of about $588.6M.
- Sandbox behavior: 144 external data requests and 96 external POST requests in total, of which 12 and 3 respectively went to non-allowlisted destinations. There were no wallet-drainer or clipboard-hijack runs and no credential forms.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site claims no financial license, registration or regulator anywhere on the homepage, even though it offers leveraged derivatives, a lottery and a prediction market. These are activities that are normally licensed or restricted. The homepage footer links to terms of service, audits, a bug bounty and support, but only the link labels were available. The content behind them was not reviewed, so they cannot be treated as evidence of governance or audit assurance. No operating company, jurisdiction or responsible individual is named. Ownership is opaque, and the real-world operator is unverified. This is a verification gap and not proof of fraud, but combined with the external detections it removes any basis for assuming the site is the genuine protocol. No third-party broker database record was matched, so no reputational context is available from that source.
- Homepage: no license, registration number, regulator or operating entity is disclosed.
- Homepage footer: documentation, audit, bug-bounty, terms and support labels are present, but their destinations were not confirmed.
- Hosting: served from AS214351 (FEMO IT Solutions Limited, GB) with the IP registered in the AFRINIC region, country code SC.
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by YE2 (DV, domain validation only), valid to 2026-12-22. A DV certificate only confirms control of the domain and says nothing about the operator.
- Domain registration: registered through ST Registry under a rare country-code TLD.
What to Verify Next
Before any interaction, confirm independently whether this domain is an official channel of the PancakeSwap project. Do this by reaching the project's documentation or community channels through a route not linked from this site, such as a bookmarked address or an offline source. The domain is not known to be official. Compare the address character by character with the one published there. The audit and bug-bounty claims should be checked directly against the auditors' and bounty platform's own records, not through links on this site. If the operator asserts a license for its derivatives or lottery products, that should be checked with the relevant regulator's register. Any prior wallet approval granted to this domain should be reviewed with a reputable allowance-checking tool and revoked.
- Homepage: the project and token branding must be matched against the project's independently published official domain.
- Homepage footer: the audit and bug-bounty claims need confirmation from the third parties named, not from site-hosted links.
- Page behavior: the connect-wallet entry point is the main interaction surface that could create exposure for a user.
Summary Verdict
The site is rated critical risk. External threat intelligence has contradicted its claim of legitimacy, and its age, thin history and unverified operator provide nothing that would offset that. The established-looking page does not establish that this is the real service.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is fronted by a Cloudflare CDN/WAF, and the single observed IP is an edge address, so the origin server could not be identified. This protection is a mitigating factor only and does not offset the reputation findings. Edge-only visibility prevents independent verification of where content is hosted and can mask rapid content swaps, which is a particular concern for such a young domain. The only DNS heuristics were low-footprint indicators typical of a newly created domain, and they are unconfirmed.
Closing Assessment
The site should be limited to read-only viewing at most. No wallet should be connected, no transaction or message signed, and no funds, credentials or seed phrases entered. Anyone who has already interacted with it should revoke token approvals and move assets to a fresh wallet.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-19 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, history in the web archive, hosting and network.
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 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
03 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
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 3 reports on hosting IP 196.251.122.47 (internet-security, Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 9% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
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 pancakeswap.st.
- The request stayed on pancakeswap.st. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under ST Registry. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-09-22. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-09-23. Clear
- It is hosted on FEMOIT, from a server in SC. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | ST Registry |
|---|---|
| Hosting | FEMOIT - FEMO IT SOLUTIONS LIMITED, GB |
| Country | SC |
| Server IP | 196.251.122.47 |
| Name servers | clark.ns.cloudflare.com, ulla.ns.cloudflare.com |
| CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) |
| Resolved IP addresses | 1 |
| Edge IP addresses | 1 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-22 |
| Domain age | 0.07 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-09-22 |
| Archive first seen | 2026-09-23 |
| Archive snapshots | 3 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 22 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 9% confidence, 3 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about pancakeswap.st 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.