Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
sui-dex.xyz 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 | 10 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 11% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 6 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 4 months oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Web archive | Archived since 20261 snapshot | 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 2026.
- 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 sui-dex.xyz presents itself as a decentralized-exchange platform. Its homepage title bills it as the "#1 Sui Network DEX" and advertises token swaps, staking, perpetual-futures trading and wider DeFi services for the Sui blockchain ecosystem. It appears to be a crypto-trading front end that would invite visitors to move digital assets through it. The "#1" ranking is a self-declared superlative, and nothing in the evidence supports it.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
This site shows confirmed contradictory signals, and the assessment is high risk. A large cluster of independent security engines currently classifies the domain as malicious or suspicious. These include several top-tier vendors, and the site is blacklisted by external threat-intelligence sources. The detections are strong enough to override every positive technical attribute. The branding is also a concern. The domain borrows the name of a well-known blockchain ecosystem and wraps it in a generic "DEX" label, a pattern often used to attract users who search for or follow links to legitimate protocols. The evidence does not confirm which of the detected threat types applies, so the report does not attribute a specific attack method. The domain is also very new, and its web-archive history consists of a single capture. It has no track record that could offset the detections. Separately, the hosting address has recent abuse reports. They concern a shared data-center address, so they may not all relate to this site. They still add to the adverse picture. Sandbox testing recorded no wallet-connection abuse, clipboard manipulation, hidden forms or cloaking, but a clean run does not neutralize the external detections. Content that is benign during an automated visit can change later. The site's pitch to trade perpetuals, stake tokens and swap assets, with a wallet connection implied, is the setting where a malicious operator could cause irreversible loss. Evidence:
- Homepage: the title advertises "Swap, Stake, Perps & DeFi" and a self-declared "#1 Sui Network DEX" position, with no independent support for the ranking.
- External reputation: a double-digit number of security engines flag the domain as malicious, with more marking it suspicious, and a confirmed blacklist is recorded.
- Domain provenance: registered in 2026 (~0.3 years old), with only 1 archive snapshot, taken in 2026 (1 year tracked).
- Hosting address: 6 abuse reports against the shared hosting IP, the latest only days ago.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The evidence links the site to no financial regulator, licensing registry or registered legal entity. Independent confirmation of the real-world operator is not available, so any legitimacy claim made on the pages cannot be treated as established. A site offering leveraged perpetual trading and staking-type products would normally be expected to support those services with a verifiable corporate and licensing basis. Under the circumstances, no such basis can be credited. This is a verification matter and separate from the contradictions above. The domain was registered through NameSilo, a mainstream registrar, but registrar choice does not establish the operator's identity or legitimacy. The site's transport encryption is valid but is a basic domain-validated certificate. It confirms an encrypted connection and proves nothing about who runs the site or whether it is safe. Evidence:
- Registration: domain created 2026-07-02 via NameSilo, LLC, expiring 2027-07-02.
- Transport security: TLS certificate issued by YR2 (DV), valid to 2026-12-23.
- Hosting: served from AS59692 (IQWEB - IQWeb FZ-LLC, United Arab Emirates).
- Homepage: no regulatory registration or licensing status could be tied to the operator.
What to Verify Next
Before any interaction, confirm independently whether a project with this name and these products exists. Check the official project channels listed by the Sui ecosystem or the protocol's own verified announcements, not links from this site, social posts or search ads. Any claimed license or registration should be looked up directly in the relevant regulator's public registry. Official support or contact channels should be confirmed through an offline or independently sourced route. Anyone who has already connected a wallet or entered credentials here should review and revoke wallet permissions and change affected passwords. Evidence:
- Homepage: the site's claims of leading-DEX status and its product set have no independent corroboration.
- Domain history: the domain's short life and single archive capture offer no prior reputation to rely on.
- External reputation: current blacklist status makes any on-site link or wallet prompt untrustworthy until the listing is resolved.
Summary Verdict
Trust in this website is critically low. Its adverse external reputation is decisive, the domain has no established history, and its operator is unidentified. The apparent purpose, a crypto-trading venue, increases the potential harm if the site is malicious. Technical hygiene and a clean-looking sandbox visit do not change this posture.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to a single IP address at a UAE-based hosting provider, directly and with no content-delivery or web-application-firewall layer in front of it. The address is therefore not shielded from direct exposure. The network registry region does not match the hosting country. This is an unconfirmed heuristic and is given minor weight. The provider's infrastructure is shared, which is why the abuse reports on the address carry uncertain attribution. Nothing in this setup mitigates the reputational findings.
Closing Assessment
Treat the site as unsafe for anything beyond passive viewing. Do not connect a wallet, sign transactions, deposit funds or enter credentials, and do not download anything from it, until the listings are cleared and the operator is independently verified through official channels.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-25 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
5 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by external reputation, hosting and network, history in the web archive, behaviour in a sandbox, 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 Hosting and network
- The domain was registered less than three months ago.Hosting and network
rule:DNS_NEW_DOMAIN_90D
03 History in the web archive
- The web archive has almost no record of this domain, which fits a site that is new.History in the web archive
rule:ARCH_PEN_YOUNG_AND_SPARSE
04 Behaviour in a sandbox
- Most of what the page loaded came from other domains rather than from this one.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_HIGH
05 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
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 6 reports on hosting IP 186.2.175.35 (IQWeb FZ-LLC, Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 11% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
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 sui-dex.xyz.
- The request stayed on sui-dex.xyz. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under NameSilo, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by dnsowl.com, across 3 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-07-02. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2026-07-30. Clear
- It is hosted on IQWEB, from a server in AE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | NameSilo, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | IQWEB - IQWeb FZ-LLC, AE |
| Country | AE |
| Server IP | 186.2.175.35 |
| Name servers | NS1.DNSOWL.COM, NS2.DNSOWL.COM, NS3.DNSOWL.COM |
| CDN / edge network | Not detected |
| Resolved IP addresses | 1 |
| Edge IP addresses | 0 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 1 |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-23 |
| Domain age | 0.32 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-07-02 |
| Archive first seen | 2026-07-30 |
| Archive snapshots | 1 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 10 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 11% confidence, 6 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about sui-dex.xyz 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.