Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
pauhox.com 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 | 3 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 flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
Pauhox is a newly established website that presents itself on its homepage as the "most popular online crypto casino based on blockchain". It offers online gambling denominated in cryptocurrency, and its apparent business model is crypto-based casino wagering aimed at visitors who want to stake digital assets.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The principal concern is a hard reputational contradiction. Several independent threat-intelligence engines currently classify the domain as malicious or suspicious, and the evidence supports a confirmed blacklist-level listing. This is the decisive factor and is not offset by the technical hygiene found elsewhere. No brand impersonation, conflicting legal identities, or confirmed phishing page was identified, so the concern comes from external listings rather than from observed identity fraud. The domain is also extremely young. Its registration, sparse subdomain structure, and incomplete ownership details fit the pattern of a recently launched, disposable-style gambling front. In that pattern, a site is stood up quickly, promoted with bold superlatives such as "most popular", and may be abandoned or swapped once reputation damage accumulates. Behavioral testing of the homepage was uneventful: it loaded stably, with no cloaking, no wallet-connection prompts or drainer behavior, no clipboard manipulation, and no hidden forms. That absence of active exploitation does not outweigh the external detections. Operator identity could not be independently connected to any real-world person or company, so any claim of legitimacy rests on unverified on-site presentation. Evidence:
- Homepage: titled as the most popular blockchain-based online crypto casino, an unverifiable superlative with no supporting operator information in the captured content.
- External reputation: 3 engines rate the domain malicious and 2 suspicious; the listing is classed as a confirmed blacklist hit.
- Domain provenance: registered 2026-09-01 (~0.15 years, about 53 days old) through NICENIC International Group Co., Limited, with expiry set for 2027-09-01.
- Behavioral sandbox: 3 of 3 runs completed with no wallet-drainer, clipboard-hijack, hidden-form, or cloaking activity detected.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The capture does not clearly show licensing, corporate registration, or operator disclosures. Online casino services are typically subject to gaming-licence requirements, and no regulatory standing could be established for this operator. Ownership details are incomplete, which is a form of ownership opacity rather than an identity contradiction. No third-party broker or regulator record matched this site, so no external reputational context exists on the regulatory side. The site's transport encryption is valid and issued by a recognised authority. This is a baseline hygiene factor only, since domain-validated certificates are issued automatically to any domain holder and carry no assurance about the operator. Evidence:
- Homepage and captured legal content: no identifiable operating company, gaming licence, or registration number could be confirmed.
- Hosting: served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by WE1, domain-validated (DV), valid to 2026-11-30.
- Third-party broker intelligence: no matching record.
What to Verify Next
Before any engagement, the operator's claimed gaming licence, if one is asserted anywhere on the site, should be checked directly with the issuing regulator's public register rather than through any link or badge on the site. The operating legal entity should be identified through independent corporate-registry searches. The official support and contact channels should be confirmed through an independent route. The current standing of the domain with the threat-intelligence engines that flag it should be rechecked, since such listings can change if the site is remediated or taken down. Evidence:
- Homepage: gambling and crypto-wagering claims are presented without a verifiable operator behind them.
- Reputation listings: current malicious and suspicious classifications remain unresolved.
- Domain age: the roughly seven-week-old registration leaves no long-term operating record to corroborate any claims.
Summary Verdict
The available evidence places this site in a clearly high-risk posture. A confirmed external threat listing, combined with a very recent registration and no verifiable operator identity, outweighs the clean behavioral findings and ordinary encryption. Apparent technical stability does not establish legitimacy, and the overall assessment is cautionary.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is fronted by Cloudflare's CDN and WAF, and all observed addresses are edge servers within the same provider's network, so the origin host could not be seen. This protective layer is a mitigating factor only. It offers some resilience against opportunistic attacks, but it prevents independent verification of where the site is actually hosted and can mask rapid content changes behind a stable front. Heuristics also flag a young domain with sparse subdomains, but that is unconfirmed and carries little weight on its own.
Closing Assessment
The site should be treated as unsafe for any login, credential entry, or deposit of funds or crypto assets. At most, it should be viewed read-only from an isolated environment while the external listings remain active.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-25 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, registration and ownership, behaviour in a sandbox.
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 Registration and ownership
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
04 Behaviour in a sandbox
- Many of the responses the page received looked generated rather than served normally.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_SYNTHETIC_RESPONSES_HIGH
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 pauhox.com.
- The request stayed on pauhox.com. 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 2027-09-01. 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 | 2606:4700:3036::6815:5857 |
| Name servers | CAMERON.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, SUE.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 | 2026-11-30 |
| Domain age | 0.15 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-09-01 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 3 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about pauhox.com 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.