Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
runelight.net 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 | 7 days oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Web archive | Archived since 201029 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | 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 2010.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
The domain runelight.net presents a single landing page titled as an open-source client for the Old School RuneScape game. It is positioned as downloadable gaming software for an existing player community, and the visible content is brief. The wording matches a well-known community project, but nothing independently ties this domain to that project or to any named operator.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
This assessment is cautionary. Multiple independent security engines, including two tier-one vendors, currently classify the domain as malicious or suspicious, and the aggregate detection level is high enough to trigger an automatic reputation cap. This is a confirmed blacklist condition and the decisive factor in the verdict. The domain name is a near-variant of the brand in the homepage title. Software-download pages that borrow a trusted community brand are a common route for trojanised installers and credential-stealing lookalikes. Even so, no conflicting legal identities and no explicit impersonation were established. Behavioral testing of the homepage showed no wallet-connection prompts, clipboard tampering, hidden forms, cloaking, or credential posts to external hosts. It did show two suspicious inline scripts, a heavy share of third-party requests (19 external data calls and three external POST submissions), and repeated console errors. Together with the detections, these are consistent with an unreliable or monetised page, and they do not exonerate it. The domain's history is also discontinuous. The archive shows a few captures in 2010, then a long gap, then activity from 2016 onward. The registration record, however, shows the domain was created only days ago. That pattern fits a lapsed domain re-registered and repurposed, so the long archive history should not be read as continuity of ownership.
- Homepage: titled as an open-source Old School RuneScape client, while the domain name is a lookalike variant of that brand; the page text is short, about 1,200 characters.
- Domain registration record: created 2026-10-16 (~0.02 years, about 6 days old), expiring 2027-10-16.
- Web archive: 29 snapshots spanning 2010–2025 (16 years tracked), with a long gap in the early period and the densest capture activity in 2018–2019.
- Homepage behavior across 3 sandbox runs: 2 suspicious inline scripts, 19 external XHR calls, 3 external POSTs, and 8 console errors.
- External reputation: 12 security engines flag the domain as malicious and 2 as suspicious.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The captured homepage names no operating company, registered address, or developer organisation, and it shows no licence or registration reference. Independent verification of the operator's real-world identity is therefore not established. For a software-distribution site this matters, because users have no accountable party to attribute the download to. The domain's registrant details are privacy-protected, which is treated here as an administrative limitation. The registrar is Eranet International Limited. No third-party broker or financial-regulator record matched the domain. This is neutral context and not an adverse regulatory finding. The adverse reputation signals are covered in the risk section above and are not repeated here.
- Homepage: no company name, legal entity, licence number, or contact-identity disclosure in the captured content.
- Domain registration: registrar Eranet International Limited; registrant name and organisation redacted for privacy.
- Hosting: served from AS43641 (Sollutium-NL, SOLLUTIUM EU Sp z.o.o.), with the network located in Ukraine.
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by YR2 (DV, domain-validated only), valid to 2027-01-14 with about 83 days remaining. DV validation confirms domain control and not organisational identity.
What to Verify Next
Before any further interaction, the page's relationship to the genuine RuneScape client project should be checked from an independent source. That means locating the official project site through the game publisher's own pages or the project's established community channels, then comparing the domain spelling character by character. Any installer already obtained from this domain should be treated as untrusted. It should be deleted or scanned in an isolated environment before execution. Accounts used with the game or with any related service should have their passwords reviewed and two-factor authentication confirmed if the site was used. Official support and contact channels should be taken only from the verified project source and not from this site.
- Homepage: the title claims an open-source client, but nothing on the captured page establishes the link to the official project.
- Domain name: differs by spelling from the brand named in the page title, so comparison against the official address is a concrete test.
- External reputation: current malicious classifications mean any file obtained from this host cannot be assumed clean.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high-risk. Active threat detections from independent security sources override the modest technical hygiene signals, and the operator remains unidentified. The site reads as a probable lookalike distribution page and not as an established, verified software project. Its reputation outweighs its valid encryption and its sandbox stability.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is fronted by Cloudflare's CDN/WAF, and the only observed address is an edge address, so the origin server was not observable. This provides a degree of protection against direct attack and shows basic operational competence. It does not establish legitimacy. Edge-only visibility also prevents independent verification of the true hosting and would allow content to be changed quickly without outside notice. Heuristics on the young domain's thin DNS footprint and sparse subdomains are unconfirmed signals and carry limited weight here.
Closing Assessment
Reading the page without interacting is the only use consistent with the evidence. No login, credential entry, payment, or file download should be attempted from this domain. Anyone who needs the genuine client should obtain it only from the official source verified through independent channels.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-22 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, behaviour in a sandbox, 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 Behaviour in a sandbox
- The page carried inline scripts written in a style TrustSniffer treats as suspicious.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_SUSPICIOUS_INLINE_SCRIPTS - Most of what the page loaded came from other domains rather than from this one.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_HIGH
03 Hosting and network
- 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
04 Registration and ownership
- The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN
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 runelight.net.
- The request stayed on runelight.net. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Eranet International Limited. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-10-16. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2010-05-15. Clear
- It is hosted on Sollutium-NL, from a server in UA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Eranet International Limited |
|---|---|
| Hosting | Sollutium-NL - SOLLUTIUM EU Sp z.o.o., PL |
| Country | UA |
| Server IP | 195.26.86.171 |
| Name servers | TANI.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, TOSANA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM |
| CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) |
| Resolved IP addresses | 1 |
| Edge IP addresses | 1 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-01-14 |
| Domain age | 0.02 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-10-16 |
| Archive first seen | 2010-05-15 |
| Archive snapshots | 29 |
| 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 runelight.net 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.