Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
vote-virtvals.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 | 5 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 | 5 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 flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This domain presents no browsable content to automated visitors. Its entry page returned a Cloudflare security interstitial labelled as suspected phishing instead of a site, so its commercial purpose cannot be confirmed from its own pages. The hostname combines "vote" with a misspelled crypto-style brand term, which suggests a governance-voting or token-community theme. A site of that kind would normally invite visitors to connect a wallet or sign in, but no such interface was observed.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
Contradictory signals are present, and they are serious. Several independent reputation sources currently flag the domain as malicious or suspicious, including a major tier-one security vendor. This amounts to a confirmed blacklist listing and is the decisive driver of the cautionary assessment. The web-reputation record also carries a prior phishing association. When the site was visited, the edge network answered with a phishing-warning challenge page and an access-denied status instead of normal content. That is consistent with the listings. No conflicting legal identities or confirmed brand-impersonation artifacts were identified. No suspicious published contact address was observed. The risk therefore rests on the threat listings and the domain profile, not on identity inconsistency. The domain is also very young, and its name evokes a voting theme tied to a crypto-style brand. Domains registered shortly before a governance-vote, airdrop, or claim lure often carry this profile. Behavioral testing recorded heavy third-party request traffic, many page-script errors, and a large, abrupt rewrite of the page after interaction. It found no wallet-connection prompts, clipboard tampering, hidden forms, or external credential posts. The absence of those behaviors in the sandbox does not offset the threat listings. Content that was gated from the scanner may differ from what a real visitor sees. Evidence:
- Homepage: automated capture returned a Cloudflare challenge page titled as suspected phishing, with an access-denied response, instead of the site's own content.
- External reputation: multiple security engines classify the domain as malicious or suspicious, and a tier-one vendor is among them.
- Domain registration: created 2026-06-16 (~0.38 years old, roughly four and a half months), with expiry set for 2027-06-16.
- Behavioral sandbox (homepage): no wallet-connect, drainer, clipboard-hijack, or hidden-form activity across three successful runs. Page content shifted heavily after interaction, and the console logged repeated script errors.
Regulatory Verification Notes
No licensing, registration, or regulatory standing could be established for this domain, and no third-party broker or regulator record matches it. The site's own legal, terms, and about pages were not reachable because the scan was stopped at the security interstitial. No on-site disclosure of an operating entity, licence number, or jurisdiction could therefore be assessed. The registration record shows an incomplete or concealed owner, which is ownership opacity and not an identity contradiction. It still leaves the real-world operator unconnected to any named brand or person. Any claim of affiliation with an established project or protocol should be treated as unverified. The domain's reputational standing outweighs any positive reading of its technical hygiene. Evidence:
- Registrar record: the domain is registered through NiceNIC International Group Co., Limited, with owner details incomplete.
- Transport encryption: the TLS certificate was issued by WE1 at domain-validation (DV) level and is valid to 2027-01-11. This confirms only that the connection is encrypted, not who operates the site.
- Hosting: the site is served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- Legal pages: no terms, privacy, or about content could be evaluated.
What to Verify Next
Any contact with the site should be preceded by confirming where the link came from. A link received through a social post, direct message, or email claiming to be a governance vote or a claim should be treated as unsolicited until proven otherwise. The official voting or governance venue of the project the name evokes should be located independently, through its verified channels or a long-standing bookmark, and compared with this domain. Anyone who has already visited the site or connected a wallet should review and revoke token approvals and consider rotating exposed credentials. The listing status should be re-checked later. Confirming the official support and contact channels through an independent route is also advisable before any engagement. Evidence:
- Domain registration: the site is about four and a half months old, so no established track record exists to rely on.
- Homepage: the access-restricted entry page means the site's real offer, if any, could not be inspected.
- External reputation: the threat listings are current, so any change should be confirmed from several independent sources before the site is reconsidered.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence supports a high-risk posture. Current, multi-source threat listings, a newly registered domain, and an operator who cannot be identified converge on a site that should not be treated as legitimate. Its technical hygiene is ordinary and does not offset that reputational evidence. The operator's identity remains unconnected to any real-world entity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site sits behind Cloudflare's CDN and web application firewall, and every observed address belongs to edge servers. The hosting origin is not observable, which prevents independent verification of where the content lives. This protective layer, with a valid and well-formed certificate, is a mitigating factor only. It makes a clean technical baseline, but it cannot offset the external threat detections or establish the operator's legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Interaction should be limited to passive viewing, if it happens at all. Logging in, entering credentials, connecting a wallet, approving transactions, or sending funds through this domain is not appropriate. Governance voting or claims should be completed only through the project's officially published channels, reached independently of this link.
Written analysis generated 2026-11-01 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
- 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 structure of the page changed sharply while it was loading.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_DOM_DENSITY_SPIKE - The page produced an unusually high number of errors while it ran.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_CONSOLE_ERRORS_HIGH
03 Hosting and network
- The domain was registered between three and six months ago.Hosting and network
rule:DNS_YOUNG_6M
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 vote-virtvals.com.
- The request stayed on vote-virtvals.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 2027-06-16. 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:dd4e |
| Name servers | GREG.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, MIKI.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 | 2027-01-11 |
| Domain age | 0.38 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-06-16 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 5 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about vote-virtvals.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.