Verdict
tutpaste.com is low-trust and potentially risky.
Several risk patterns were present. Do not send money or personal details until you have verified this business another way.
| What this site appears to be | TutPaste is a pastebin-style service for sharing text, code, and images with free and Pro tiers. The page includes paste creation UI, login/signup, privacy controls, and an extensive consent/third-party vendor list for advertising and analytics. |
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Shared platform notice
A threat-intelligence feed listed a file on tutpaste.com as hosting scam content (last seen 2026-09-30). tutpaste.com is a shared platform used by many people. The listing concerns one uploaded file, not the platform or its operator.
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 | 2 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 8 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 11 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2018Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2018.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
TutPaste is a pastebin-style content-sharing service that allows visitors to create and share text, code snippets, and images through free and Pro tiers, with additional features such as private workspaces, upload capacity, analytics, and advertising-supported access.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site presents a coherent content-sharing service and the reviewed homepage does not show direct phishing, hidden-form, wallet, or credential-harvesting behavior. However, the external evidence contains a confirmed blacklist result and two malicious detections associated with the domain, creating a material contradiction that outweighs the otherwise ordinary presentation. The site’s real-world operator remains unverified, so the polished interface and stated service model should not be treated as proof of legitimacy. Separate abuse reports associated with shared infrastructure were discounted because their attribution was to a common provider address rather than specifically to the website.
- The homepage provides paste creation, image upload, login, and registration functions, while behavioral inspection recorded no hidden forms, external password submissions, wallet activity, or clipboard hijacking.
- External reputation assessment recorded 2 malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist result for the domain.
- Domain registration: 2015-12-20; approximately 10.78 years old, registered through GoDaddy.com, LLC.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage describes a freemium software service rather than a regulated financial product, but the reviewed content does not provide an independently verifiable operating entity, registration number, or licensing disclosure. This is a transparency and identity-verification gap, not by itself proof of fraud; in this case, it must be considered alongside the confirmed external reputation contradictions. The service claims include private and unlisted sharing, expiration controls, image uploads, Pro subscriptions, analytics, and advertising or third-party vendor participation, making data handling, retention, billing, and user-support responsibilities important areas for independent validation. No matching broker-reputation record was identified, but that contextual result is not a legal or regulatory determination.
- The homepage identifies the service as “TutPaste” and describes free and Pro plans, but does not visibly identify a legally accountable operating entity or registration number.
- The homepage discloses advertising and analytics participation through a substantial third-party vendor and consent-management presentation.
- The domain’s public registration record identifies GoDaddy.com, LLC as registrar and shows an expiration date of 2026-12-20; registrar information does not independently establish the operator’s identity.
What to Verify Next
Before any account creation, credential submission, paid upgrade, or upload of confidential material, an enterprise user should independently confirm the operator’s legal identity, support ownership, privacy commitments, data-retention practices, deletion process, and subscription cancellation terms. Official contact channels should be confirmed through an independent route, and any organizational or compliance claims should be checked against authoritative registries or corporate records rather than relying solely on the website. Sensitive organizational code, credentials, personal data, and proprietary documents should not be uploaded until those checks are complete.
- The homepage offers login, signup, private-workspace, and paid Pro functionality, creating account, data-handling, and payment-related verification requirements.
- The homepage advertises public, unlisted, and private sharing modes together with expiration and burn-after-read controls, which require confirmation of actual enforcement and retention behavior.
- The reviewed content contains no independently verifiable operator, registration, or licensing reference to support those checks.
Summary Verdict
TutPaste has the appearance of a functioning content-sharing SaaS service, but its overall trust posture is low because external threat detections and a confirmed blacklist result create a material legitimacy contradiction. The operator’s identity is not independently established, and the available evidence does not support treating the service as suitable for sensitive interaction.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare’s CDN/WAF infrastructure, with observed traffic terminating at edge servers rather than a directly exposed origin. This provides a meaningful layer of transport and network protection, but it is only a mitigating technical control and does not resolve the domain-level reputation findings or establish operator legitimacy.
- Hosted on AS13335, CLOUDFLARENET — Cloudflare, Inc., US; observed edge address 188.114.97.1.
- Cloudflare edge infrastructure was observed across 4 addresses, with 0 origin candidates identified.
- TLS certificate issued by WE1 with DV validation, valid to 2026-11-01.
Closing Assessment
Use should be limited to non-sensitive, read-only viewing until independent identity and reputation checks are resolved; credentials, confidential uploads, and financial commitments should not be made through the site at this stage.
Written analysis generated 2026-09-30 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
2 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by registration and ownership, analysis engine.
01 Governance Risk
- 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 - The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 8 reports on hosting IP 2a06:98c1:3120::1 (Cloudflare, Inc., Content Delivery Network), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 25% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
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 tutpaste.com.
- The request stayed on tutpaste.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-12-20. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2018-08-05. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2a06:98c1:3120::1 |
| Name servers | KENNETH.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, OLLIE.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM |
| CDN / edge network | Detected (cloudflare) |
| Resolved IP addresses | 4 |
| Edge IP addresses | 4 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-01 |
| Domain age | 10.78 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-12-20 |
| Archive first seen | 2018-08-05 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 8 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about tutpaste.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.