Brand impersonation — not the real site
Domain is only 45 days old. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
Is aaveswap.app legit or a scam?
Fake Aave DeFi swap site that clones aave.com and was flagged as an active crypto drainer by threat reports.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The domain aaveswap.app is only 45 days old and exactly mimics the official Aave title and description while resolving to a verification page. Our scam network fingerprint directly matches it as both a clone and typosquat of aave.com. Two independent reports from phishdestroy.io explicitly label it as a brand-impersonation crypto drainer designed to harvest wallet credentials. Although our antivirus network shows mostly clean results, the combination of extreme newness, impersonation, and external scam confirmations overrides that signal. The page uses a CDN verification layer that can hide the true intent until a user interacts.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
Clean, professional verification page from Symcentric CDN with no scam indicators visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for aaveswap.app, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain aaveswap.app created April 9, 2026 (45 days old as of May 2026).
- Resolves to IP 43.174.241.1 (Singapore); registered via Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu.
- Flagged by PhishDestroy as active Aave brand-impersonation crypto drainer; 3/95 VirusTotal detections, listed in MetaMask, PhishDestroy, SEAL blocklists.
- Page title exactly matches official Aave: 'Aave - Open Source DeFi Lending Protocol'.
- No mentions of aaveswap.app on Reddit or in user complaint forums; only threat intelligence reports.
- Official Aave sites are aave.com and app.aave.com; no official association with aaveswap.app.
- Domain hosts 19-page sitemap and uses cloaking per threat intel.
- phishdestroy.ioopen
"PhishDestroy identifies the domain aaveswap[.]app as an active brand-impersonation threat designed to harvest wallet credentials and initiate crypto drainer operations targeting Aave users."
- phishdestroy.ioopen
"aaveswap.app impersonates Aave to push a crypto drainer kit ; 2/95 vendors flagged it ... This is a second scam. No legitimate service will ask for ..."
Domain mimics Aave DeFi protocol with matching page title 'Aave - Open Source DeFi Lending Protocol' and description; flagged as Aave impersonation/drainer.
Phishdestroy.io published two reports identifying aaveswap.app as an active brand-impersonation threat that pushes a crypto drainer kit targeting Aave users. No positive reviews, business registrations, or mentions on consumer sites were located. The only external signals are threat-intelligence listings confirming the impersonation.
Scam Network Intelligence
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
3 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Domain is a typosquat of aave.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- Domain is a typosquat of aave.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
- AI analyst tagged this as crypto fraud / wallet-drainer.
- AI analyst categorised the site as crypto-themed.
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Domain is a typosquat of aave.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- Domain is a typosquat of aave.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
- AI analyst tagged this as crypto fraud / wallet-drainer.
- AI analyst categorised the site as crypto-themed.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with aaveswap.app
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
- Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
- OpenReport the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review flags aaveswap.app as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — aaveswap.app scored 21/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. aaveswap.app presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by TrustAsia Technologies, Inc. · TrustAsia DV TLS RSA CA 2025, expiring in 61 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- aaveswap.app is 1 month old, registered on 4/9/2026 through Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged aaveswap.app as malicious or suspicious. Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. aaveswap.app is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- aaveswap.app resolves to an IP operated by ACEVILLE PTE.LTD. in SG (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
Final Verdict
This site impersonates the Aave DeFi lending protocol. Our analysis flags it as malicious due to confirmed scam reports identifying it as a crypto drainer targeting Aave users. Avoid connecting any wallet or entering credentials.
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