Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
voting-alignedlayer.live 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 | 13 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 website, reached at a hostname that pairs the word "voting" with a protocol-style name under the ".live" suffix, presents no verifiable content of its own to a visitor. Automated access was met with a Cloudflare bot challenge, and the page that loaded was a browser interstitial titled as a suspected misleading website. The site's apparent purpose, and any business model behind it, could therefore not be established from its own pages. The surrounding signals point to a very recently created web property whose domain is being flagged by multiple security vendors.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
Contradictory signals are present and material. A broad group of security engines independently rates the domain as malicious, and a confirmed blacklist listing exists. This is more than a single outlier detection, and the flags come from several well-regarded vendors. The domain was registered only weeks before analysis, which fits the lifecycle of disposable, campaign-style domains and leaves no track record to offset the detections. The hostname's pairing of a governance-style word ("voting") with a protocol-style name follows a lure pattern often seen in crypto-themed campaigns. This is a naming observation, not a confirmed brand impersonation, and no conflicting legal identities or phishing-form behavior were observed. Behavioral testing was less alarming in places. The site made no wallet-connection attempts, no clipboard manipulation, and no hidden or externally posting credential forms. It also showed no cloaking after interaction. The external requests it generated all went to destinations on an allow-list of known services, and the page produced a notable volume of browser console errors. These findings reduce the likelihood of an active drainer. They do not outweigh the blacklist and multi-vendor detections, which are the decisive factor. Evidence:
- Homepage capture: the page returned an access-denied status behind a bot challenge and displayed a "Suspected Misleading Website" warning interstitial.
- Domain registered 2026-08-18 (~0.19 years old, about 68 days).
- Reputation check: 13 security engines flagged the domain as malicious and 1 as suspicious, including several top-tier vendors, alongside a confirmed external blacklist listing.
- Behavioral runs (3 of 3 successful): 127 external XHR requests and 6 external POSTs, none to non-allow-listed destinations; 12 console errors; no wallet, clipboard, or cloaking activity.
Regulatory Verification Notes
No regulatory registration, licence, or authorised-entity status is associated with this domain, and no third-party broker record matched it. Because the captured page was a challenge interstitial, no legal, terms, privacy, or about content was available to assess, and the site presents no identifiable operating entity. Registration data does not connect the domain to any real-world company or individual, so the operator's identity is unconfirmed. Given the severity of the reputational findings, this gap compounds the risk instead of being an administrative detail. Nothing here supports treating the site as a regulated or accountable counterparty. Evidence:
- Domain registered through NICENIC International Group Co., Limited, with expiry set for 2027-08-18, a one-year initial term.
- Served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- TLS certificate issued by WE1 (DV, domain validation only), valid to 2027-01-15; a DV certificate confirms control of the domain, not the identity of its operator.
- No broker or regulatory-registry match was found for the domain.
What to Verify Next
Any contact with this domain should be preceded by establishing, through independent routes, whether a legitimate project or organisation actually operates a voting or governance portal, and at which official address. Any link that led here (a message, social post, or advertisement) should be traced to its origin and treated as potentially hostile. Any voting, claim, or governance action tied to this domain should be confirmed on the official channels of the project it appears to reference, reached through a source typed in by hand or independently bookmarked. Users who have already interacted with the site, especially by connecting a wallet or entering credentials, should review their wallet approvals and rotate any exposed credentials. The domain's status should also be re-checked later, since detections can change as vendors re-scan. Evidence:
- The domain is under three months old, with no prior history to confirm any established project presence.
- Multiple vendors currently flag the domain, so re-checking later would show whether the listings persist.
- The challenge page names the site as suspected misleading, which supports confirming the official address independently.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high-risk and clearly cautionary. Converging threat-intelligence detections and a confirmed blacklist listing dominate the assessment, and nothing observed on the domain offsets them. Its evident youth, together with the absence of any verifiable operator or accountable entity, leaves no positive evidence that could carry a legitimacy conclusion.
Infrastructure Integrity
The domain resolves entirely to Cloudflare edge addresses, and no origin server could be identified. This is a mitigating factor only, because CDN protection does not vouch for the site behind it. The valid certificate and recognised network ownership indicate sound transport security. They give no assurance about the intent of the operator, and the edge-only visibility prevents independent verification of where the content is actually hosted.
Closing Assessment
Treat the site as unsafe for any login, credential entry, wallet connection, or financial interaction. Limit any contact to passive, read-only viewing from an isolated environment, or avoid it entirely until the listings are cleared and an accountable operator is independently confirmed.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-26 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
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 produced an unusually high number of errors while it ran.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_CONSOLE_ERRORS_HIGH - The page made many background requests to other domains while it was open.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_XHR_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 voting-alignedlayer.live.
- The request stayed on voting-alignedlayer.live. 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 2027-08-18. 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 | 2606:4700:3036::6815:2b49 |
| Name servers | andronicus.ns.cloudflare.com, leanna.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 | 2027-01-15 |
| Domain age | 0.19 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-08-18 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 13 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about voting-alignedlayer.live 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.