Verdict
socialtraden.com shows high-risk / scam indicators.
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
| What this site appears to be | Landing page for 'Social Trade Network' broker marketing CFD and crypto trading services plus a menu of investment plans promising specific returns. The site solicits deposits and highlights trading features, copy-trading, and customer support but presents strong yield claims and productized plans without verifiable regulatory/audit evidence. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- 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 | 11 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 3% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 1 report; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 4 months oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| 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).
- 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.
Social Trade Network is a brokerage and investment-platform website presenting Forex, CFD, cryptocurrency, commodities, indices, copy-trading, automated-trading, and packaged investment services. Its landing page solicits account creation and deposits while marketing trading access, customer support, and specific return-oriented plans under the Social Trade Network brand.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site presents a critical sensitive-interaction risk. Independent threat intelligence identifies the domain as blacklisted, with multiple malicious detections and a currently active protective shutdown response; this is a decisive contradiction for login, credential, and financial use. The homepage also combines deposit-before-service mechanics with guaranteed-return and aggressive-yield claims, including packaged plans promising specific periodic or per-trade returns, without verifiable audit or regulatory evidence. No distinct conflicting legal identities or confirmed brand impersonation were identified, but the threat detections and the site’s financial solicitation model are sufficient to require a clearly cautionary posture. A separate abuse report concerns the shared hosting IP and is attributed to the hosting provider’s infrastructure rather than conclusively to the website operator.
- The homepage markets Forex, CFDs, cryptocurrencies, copy trading, and packaged investment plans that solicit deposits before service delivery.
- External reputation analysis recorded a confirmed blacklist and malicious detections across multiple providers.
- Domain registration telemetry: registered in 2026 and approximately 0.36 years old.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The navigation includes an “Legal & Regulation” section, but the available site evidence does not establish a verifiable licensing authority, registration number, or independent audit basis for the financial services offered. The site’s claims of being “Regulated • Secure • Professional” therefore remain unsubstantiated within the supplied page evidence. This is a regulatory verification gap separate from the confirmed threat and blacklist findings; it does not independently establish fraud, but it materially limits the site’s suitability for regulated financial engagement.
- The homepage displays the claims “Regulated • Secure • Professional” while the available content provides no verifiable licensing or audit evidence.
- The site exposes login, sign-up, and deposit-oriented forms, including a sensitive form with an untrusted destination.
- The transport certificate is domain-validated rather than organization-validated, providing encryption but not legal-entity verification.
What to Verify Next
No login, credential submission, deposit, trading funding, or other financial interaction should proceed. Any claimed authorization should be checked directly with the relevant financial-services regulator using the legal entity name and license number obtained through an independent channel, and contact details should be confirmed through an offline or independently sourced route rather than through the site alone. Existing users should change any reused credentials through a known legitimate service and review accounts for unauthorized activity.
- The homepage contains a login form and sign-up/deposit call to action.
- The page analysis identifies a sensitive form and an untrusted destination.
- The site’s legal and regulatory claims are not supported by a verifiable authority or registration detail in the supplied content.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical and unsuitable for sensitive interaction. Converging threat detections, confirmed blacklisting, and unsupported financial-return claims outweigh the site’s basic operational presentation and valid encrypted transport. The website should be treated as an untrusted financial platform pending independent resolution of the identified contradictions.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to infrastructure operated by Aquiryn LLC in the United States, with no detected CDN or WAF layer and one likely origin address. This provides limited defensive separation between the public service and its hosting environment; valid TLS mitigates transport interception risk only and does not establish legitimacy.
- Hosted on AS32561 (AQUIRYN-LLC — Aquiryn LLC, US); resolved IP address 23.153.104.2.
- TLS certificate issued by YR2 at DV validation level, valid to 2026-12-20.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate disposition is to suspend sensitive interaction, preserve relevant transaction and communication records, and use independent regulatory and account-security channels for any follow-up.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-02 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, page content, several checks together.
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 Page content
- A form on the page submits to a destination TrustSniffer could not verify.Page content
rule:PAGE_FORM_UNTRUSTED_DEST - The review of the page content rated it high risk.Page content
rule:PAGE_RISK_HIGH - The page shows few of the signs expected from a trustworthy operator.Page content
rule:PAGE_TRUST_QUALITY_LOW - The page content shows three or more warning signs that deceptive sites commonly use.Page content
rule:PAGE_RED_FLAGS_STRONG
03 Several checks together
- Several independent checks pointed to risk at the same time.Several checks together
rule:HYB_MULTIPLE_MODULES_HIGH_RISK
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 1 report on hosting IP 23.153.104.2 (Aquiryn LLC, Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 3% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 76/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 76% |
- Trusted social count=2
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 socialtraden.com.
- The request stayed on socialtraden.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under TuringSign Inc. d/b/a Cosmotown. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by asurahosting.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-05-24. Noted
- It is hosted on AQUIRYN-LLC, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | TuringSign Inc. d/b/a Cosmotown |
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| Hosting | AQUIRYN-LLC - Aquiryn LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 23.153.104.2 |
| Name servers | NS1.ASURAHOSTING.COM, NS2.ASURAHOSTING.COM |
| CDN / edge network | Not detected |
| Resolved IP addresses | 1 |
| Edge IP addresses | 0 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 1 |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-20 |
| Domain age | 0.36 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-05-24 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 11 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 3% confidence, 1 report | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about socialtraden.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.