Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
rpsrescue.org 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 | 17 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 | 12 months oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 | Noted |
| Hosted by | NAMECHEAP-NETServer 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, Kaspersky, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
The website at rpsrescue.org is a single-page site that presents itself to visitors under the title "WalletConnect". It carries only a very small amount of text and appears intended to prompt visitors toward a crypto-wallet connection flow, although no business model is stated on the page.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
This site shows confirmed adverse contradictions and warrants a clearly cautionary stance. Multiple major security vendors currently flag the domain as malicious, and the site is blacklisted by external threat-intelligence sources. The page presents itself as "WalletConnect", which is a well-known wallet-connection protocol name. The domain name has no visible connection to that title, and the page offers no explanation of the relationship. This mismatch is consistent with a wallet-themed lure, but the evidence does not establish a specific impersonated brand, and the site's real-world operator is unverified. Sandbox testing did not observe wallet-drainer behavior, clipboard tampering, hidden forms, cloaking, or outbound data submission. That absence is a mitigating observation about what the page did during testing and does not offset the external detections, which remain decisive. Credential entry, wallet connection, and any financial interaction are unsafe on this site, and read-only observation in an isolated environment is the only reasonable use. Evidence:
- Homepage: the page title reads "WalletConnect", which does not correspond to the domain name, and the visible text is minimal.
- Reputation checks: several major security vendors currently flag the domain as malicious, and a kill-switch condition for external detections is active.
- Domain provenance: registered 2025-11-01 (~1 year old), a very young domain, with registration expiring 2026-11-01.
- Homepage behavior: three sandbox runs completed with no external requests, no wallet-provider interaction, and no cloaking.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site discloses no company name, licence, or registration details, and its sparse content leaves on-page disclosure unclear. This is a verification gap, not proof of wrongdoing, and it matters mainly because the page appears oriented toward wallet interaction. No third-party broker or regulator listing matched the site, so there is no external regulatory attestation either. Registration privacy shields the registrant, which is a common administrative practice and is not treated as a contradiction here. The site's TLS certificate is a basic domain-validated one. It confirms encrypted transport only and says nothing about who operates the site. Evidence:
- Homepage: no operator name, licence number, terms page, or legal identity is presented.
- Registration: Namecheap Inc. is the registrar, and registrant details are redacted behind a privacy service.
- Hosting: served from AS22612 (Namecheap, Inc., US).
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 (DV), valid to 2026-11-30.
What to Verify Next
Any prospective interaction should begin by establishing whether the actual WalletConnect project, or any organization claiming to operate this site, formally endorses it. That check should go through the project's officially published channels, reached independently and not through links on this site. Anyone who has already visited the site should confirm that no wallet was connected or signed against it. If a connection or signature occurred, they should review and revoke token approvals using the wallet's own tooling. Security teams should also re-check the domain's reputation after any claimed remediation and confirm the official support and contact channels through an independent route. Evidence:
- Homepage: the "WalletConnect" title is the only identity claim and requires independent confirmation.
- Reputation: current detections by multiple security vendors should be re-checked before any reassessment.
- Registration: the domain is about one year old, and any claim of established operation lacks supporting history.
Summary Verdict
The site presents a high-risk posture. External security detections are confirmed and decisive, the page's identity claim is unsupported, and the site's age and sparse content provide no offsetting assurance. The benign results from sandbox testing do not change this overall assessment.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is served directly from a single address on a commodity hosting provider's network, with no CDN or WAF layer detected. The infrastructure is technically ordinary and resolves cleanly. It provides no meaningful mitigation, because shared hosting of this kind is easily obtained and cannot offset the active external detections.
Closing Assessment
The site should not be used for login, wallet connection, signing, or any payment. If it must be examined, it should be opened only in an isolated environment, and nothing should be downloaded from it.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-26 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
2 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by external reputation, 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 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
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 rpsrescue.org.
- The request stayed on rpsrescue.org. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under NAMECHEAP INC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by namecheaphosting.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-11-01. Noted
- It is hosted on NAMECHEAP-NET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | NAMECHEAP INC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | NAMECHEAP-NET - Namecheap, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 198.54.120.159 |
| Name servers | dns1.namecheaphosting.com, dns2.namecheaphosting.com |
| CDN / edge network | Not detected |
| Resolved IP addresses | 1 |
| Edge IP addresses | 0 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 1 |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-30 |
| Domain age | 0.98 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-11-01 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 17 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about rpsrescue.org 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.