Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
quantanuclear.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 | 12 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 | 5 months oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Web archive | Archived since 200737 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: less than 1 year (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2007.
- 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 a Chinese-language landing page branded "Ave", whose page title bills it as a "world-leading digital-currency trading platform". Its apparent purpose is to attract visitors to a cryptocurrency exchange or trading service. The domain name, which suggests a quantitative or nuclear-themed business, does not correspond to the exchange brand it displays.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
This site carries an elevated, clearly cautionary risk. Confirmed contradictory signals exist: the domain is currently blacklisted by multiple independent threat-intelligence sources, including several tier-one security vendors, and the volume of malicious detections is high enough to override every positive technical signal. No conflicting legal identities and no brand-impersonation finding were recorded. However, historical records for the domain carry a phishing-related flag that no on-page finding corroborates. The homepage's "world-leading" exchange claim is an unverifiable superlative, and it appears on a domain whose name has no evident connection to the Ave brand. In the sandbox session, the site made background requests, including two data submissions, to unrecognised third-party endpoints. The session showed no wallet-connection prompts, drainer behaviour, clipboard tampering, hidden forms, or content cloaking. A site that markets a crypto-trading service and also sends data to unrecognised destinations is a poor candidate for any credentialed or financial interaction. Evidence:
- Homepage: the page title advertises a "world-leading digital-currency trading platform" under the Ave name, while the domain is quantanuclear.com.
- Reputation: the domain is listed as malicious by multiple independent security vendors, and the external blacklist check is positive.
- Domain provenance: current registration dates from 2026-06-11 (~0.38 years old). Web-archive records show 37 snapshots spanning 2007–2025 (19 years tracked), with a gap of roughly eight years in the middle. The old archive footprint therefore cannot be attributed to the current registrant.
- Sandbox behaviour: two non-whitelisted outbound POST/XHR requests were observed on the homepage, with no wallet, clipboard, or hidden-form activity.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The captured homepage is a short, single-page presentation. It does not allow any licensing, registration, or operating-entity claim to be confirmed. A site presenting itself as a digital-currency exchange would ordinarily be expected to identify a regulated operator, and none could be established here. This is a verification gap rather than evidence of wrongdoing, and the blacklist finding stands as the substantive concern. The domain is registered through Registrar.eu, and its transport encryption is a basic domain-validated certificate. That certificate confirms only control of the domain and says nothing about the identity or legitimacy of the operator. No third-party broker or regulatory record was matched to the site. Evidence:
- Hosting: served from AS139646 (HONG7-AS-AP, Hong Kong Lightlayer Technology Co., Limited), with the network registered under the AFRINIC registry and geolocated to Seychelles.
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by YR1 (DV), valid to 2026-12-05, with 36 days remaining.
- Registration: registrar is Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu.
- Homepage: no regulator, licence, or legal-entity reference could be confirmed from the captured page.
What to Verify Next
Any claim of a regulated exchange operation should be tested against the official public registers of the relevant financial or virtual-asset regulators, searching by legal entity name rather than by the Ave brand. The relationship between the Ave brand and the quantanuclear.com domain should be established through the brand's officially published channels, reached independently of this site. Official support and contact channels should likewise be confirmed offline, not through links on the site. If the site is being assessed for continued exposure, it should be re-scanned after the reputation listings are resolved or delisted. Evidence:
- Homepage: the exchange claim and the Ave branding are the assertions requiring independent substantiation.
- Domain: the mismatch between the domain name and the displayed brand is the discrepancy to resolve.
- External reputation: the current security-vendor listings are the baseline against which any later re-scan should be compared.
Summary Verdict
The site's overall posture is high-risk. Independent threat-intelligence detections are decisive and outweigh the modest positives, such as a valid certificate and stable page delivery. The operator's real-world identity is unverified, and the site's reputation signals are adverse, so it cannot be treated as a trustworthy exchange.
Infrastructure Integrity
No CDN or WAF fronts the site. A single address serves it directly from a commercial data-centre network, so there is no protective layer to mitigate the reputation findings. Two unconfirmed network heuristics, fast-flux-like DNS behaviour and a mismatch between the network's registry region and its geolocation, are weak indicators on their own. They are noted for completeness and do not alter the assessment.
Closing Assessment
The site should be limited to read-only viewing, if visited at all. No account login, credential entry, wallet connection, deposit, or other financial interaction is appropriate. Anyone who has already interacted with it should change any reused passwords and review related account and wallet activity.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-29 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
- Several separate hosting and network checks came back negative.Hosting and network
rule:DNS_MULTIPLE_NEGATIVE_SIGNALS
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
04 Behaviour in a sandbox
- A large share of what the page loaded came from other domains.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_MODERATE - The page sent data to a destination TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_POSTS
Identity verification
| Status | UNKNOWN |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 50/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 15% |
- 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 quantanuclear.com.
- The request stayed on quantanuclear.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by dyna-ns.net, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-06-11. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2007-01-21. Clear
- It is hosted on HONG7-AS-AP, from a server in SC. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu |
|---|---|
| Hosting | HONG7-AS-AP - HONG KONG LIGHTLAYER TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED, HK |
| Country | SC |
| Server IP | 156.240.12.44 |
| Name servers | NS1.DYNA-NS.NET, NS2.DYNA-NS.NET |
| CDN / edge network | Not detected |
| Resolved IP addresses | 1 |
| Edge IP addresses | 0 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 1 |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-05 |
| Domain age | 0.38 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-06-11 |
| Archive first seen | 2007-01-21 |
| Archive snapshots | 37 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 12 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about quantanuclear.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.