Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
vgbvault.com 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 | 9 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 | 2 months oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | Noted |
| Hosted by | CLOUDFLARENETServer 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.
This is a recently launched website that presents a single landing page titled "Vagabond Allocation — Now Live" on the domain vgbvault.com. The branding and the "allocation" wording suggest a vault-style allocation or sign-up campaign. The page content gives no further basis for establishing the operator, the product or the business model, and the site is better treated as an unclassified, newly stood-up web property than as an established service.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
This is the decisive area. Several major security vendors currently flag the domain as malicious or suspicious, which amounts to a confirmed blacklist condition. It is a hard contradiction that infrastructure protections cannot offset. No brand impersonation, conflicting legal identities or confirmed phishing kit were observed. The adverse finding rests on the external threat listing, and the domain's extreme youth makes it worse. Newly registered domains that are quickly flagged by multiple engines commonly belong to short-lived campaign infrastructure, and the "Now Live" framing in the homepage title adds launch urgency with no verifiable context. In sandbox sessions, most of the page's network traffic went to third-party origins, including repeated outbound POST requests. The destinations were recognised, so this does not confirm data exfiltration. It does mean page activity is largely handled off-domain. Interaction testing found no wallet-connection prompts, clipboard manipulation, hidden forms, cloaking or credential forms posting to external hosts. Evidence:
- Homepage: titled "Vagabond Allocation — Now Live", with no verifiable operator, product or offering context in the captured content.
- External reputation: flagged malicious or suspicious by multiple security engines, including three tier-one vendors, and treated as a confirmed blacklist condition.
- Domain provenance: registered 2026-08-26, about 0.16 years (~60 days) old at assessment.
- Behavioural sandbox: three successful runs; peak external-request share of 75%, with 9 external XHR/fetch calls and 6 external POSTs, all to recognised destinations; no wallet, clipboard or cloaking activity detected.
Regulatory Verification Notes
No third-party regulatory or broker record was matched for this site, and no licence, registration or legal-entity identification could be established from the available material. In a context where an "allocation" may involve funds, that absence is a verification gap and is not by itself evidence of wrongdoing. Domain registration details are incomplete, which creates ownership opacity and prevents attribution to any accountable party. This is a limit on accountability and not an identity contradiction. The site has a valid encrypted connection, which shows only that traffic is encrypted. It says nothing about the operator's legitimacy. Evidence:
- Registrar: the domain is registered through NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED, with a registration term running to 2027-08-26.
- Transport security: TLS certificate issued by WE1 (DV, domain validation only, so no organisational identity is vouched for), valid to 2027-01-22.
- Third-party broker coverage: no match found, so no independent regulatory or reputational record exists for the entity.
What to Verify Next
Before any engagement, the operator behind "Vagabond Allocation" should be identified through independent, offline routes, such as an established regulator's public register or a known issuer's own announcements. The offering should be confirmed as genuine through official channels that are not linked from this site. Any claim of licensing or registration should be checked directly against the relevant registry. Official support and contact channels should likewise be confirmed independently. The threat listing should be re-checked later, since status changes could indicate remediation or an escalating campaign. Evidence:
- Homepage: the "allocation" offering is described without identifying any issuing entity, which is why independent confirmation is needed.
- Reputation status: current listing by multiple security engines, so a later re-check against the same sources is a meaningful comparison.
- Registry check: no regulator or broker record matched, so any claimed credential must be confirmed at the source.
Summary Verdict
The site presents a clearly elevated risk posture. Confirmed adverse threat-intelligence listings, combined with a very recent registration and no attributable operator, outweigh the technically clean transport and behavioural hygiene. Legitimacy cannot be inferred, and the evidence converges on a high-risk assessment.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US) behind Cloudflare's CDN/WAF, and the origin server was not observable. This is a mitigating factor only. It does not offset the reputation findings, and edge-only visibility prevents independent hosting verification and can mask rapid content changes. Protective infrastructure is widely used by legitimate and malicious sites alike. A heuristic flag for a young domain with sparse subdomains is consistent with the registration age but is unconfirmed.
Closing Assessment
Interaction beyond passive, read-only viewing should be avoided. This means no login, no credential entry, no wallet connection and no payment or financial commitment. Nothing should be downloaded from the site unless its status is independently cleared.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-25 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, hosting and network, 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 - The domain is young and has almost nothing else set up around it.Hosting and network
rule:DNS_SPARSE_YOUNG_DOMAIN
03 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 - The page sent data to other domains many times while it was open.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_POSTS_HEAVY
04 Registration and ownership
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
Identity verification
| Status | UNKNOWN |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 50/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 30% |
- 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 vgbvault.com.
- The request stayed on vgbvault.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-08-26. Noted
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3033::ac43:81fd |
| Name servers | AMIR.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, APRIL.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 | 2027-01-22 |
| Domain age | 0.16 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-08-26 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 9 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about vgbvault.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.