Brand impersonation — not the real site
Domain was registered only 25 days ago — brand-new sites are higher-risk by default. 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 apexledgerx.com legit or a scam?
Newly registered (25 days old) Coinbase clone designed to drain cryptocurrency wallets through fake airdrop claims and seed-phrase harvesting.
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.
Wallet-drainer patterns detected
This page uses language and API references consistent with modern crypto wallet-drainer kits. If you connected your wallet or signed a transaction on this site, assume your wallet is compromised — revoke approvals, move funds to a fresh wallet with a new seed phrase, and treat the original as burned.
- ·"Connect wallet" paired with a high-urgency action ("claim", "migrate", "revalidate", "verify", "sync").
- ·WalletConnect prompt surfaced alongside an airdrop / giveaway claim.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The domain apexledgerx.com exhibits multiple critical indicators of a cryptocurrency wallet-drainer operation. Our antivirus network flagged it as phishing and malicious across three engines, and the site is confirmed as a clone of Coinbase.com. The brand name deliberately evokes the legitimate Ledger hardware wallet to borrow credibility. The page displays unverifiable inflated statistics ('30 Million Global Investors', '$1.36 Billion Secured Volume') with no audit trail or regulatory backing. The site combines multiple crypto-scam vectors—wallet connection flows, a fake 'CLAIM FLARE' airdrop lure, staking/farming/IDO menu items, and wallet backup/seed-phrase recovery framing—all hallmarks of low-effort drainer farms. The domain is only 25 days old with zero legitimate business registration, no contact information, and no social media presence. Our network fingerprint confirms it shares infrastructure patterns with known drainer operations and appears alongside confirmed phishing domains in threat databases.
Website Preview
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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
The page presents multiple high-risk patterns associated with crypto wallet-drainer and seed-phrase harvesting operations, including a prominent wallet-connection flow, a fake airdrop claim lure, and inflated unverifiable statistics. The brand name appears designed to evoke the legitimate Ledger hardware wallet without being a direct visual clone.
What our vision model saw
6 signalsProminent 'Connect Wallet' CTA in both the header and hero section — a primary vector for wallet-drainer attacks on fraudulent crypto sites
Unverifiable inflated statistics displayed as trust signals: '30 Million Global Investors', '700+ Secured Wallet', '$1.36 Billion Secured Volume' with no source or audit citation
Navigation includes 'CLAIM FLARE' — a known social-engineering lure used on crypto drainer sites to entice users into connecting wallets to claim fake airdrops
Brand name 'Apex Ledger' combines 'Apex' with 'Ledger', a well-known hardware wallet brand, suggesting an attempt to borrow credibility from the legitimate Ledger brand
Hero copy 'Gateway to Encrypt, back up, and secure your assets' mimics wallet-backup service framing commonly used on phishing sites that harvest seed phrases
Combination of IGO, LAUNCHPAD, STAKING, FARMING, DEFI, IDO, NFT menu items on a single site is characteristic of low-effort crypto scam portals aggregating multiple fraud vectors
Brand Impersonation
medium confidenceThe page mentions or styles itself as Coinbase, but is hosted on a domain that is not an official Coinbase property.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for apexledgerx.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered approximately 25 days ago (very new)
- Site title: "Home - apexledgerx - An assest buy and sell marketplace" (note misspelling of "asset")
- Page promotes cryptocurrency trading (Bitcoin, Ethereum, spot/margin/derivatives), staking, launchpad, and wallet backup/recovery with repeated "Connect Wallet" buttons
- Claims include "$1.36 Billion Secured Volume", "30 Million Global Investors", "200+ Countries Covered" with no verifiable proof or regulatory information
- No company name, address, registration, licenses, or contact details found; no external social media links
- Frequently appears as a favicon/reference alongside confirmed crypto drainer/phishing domains on phishdestroy.io (e.g., trustw-aml.com, chainanalisis.com, qfsglobalweb3.com)
- Content mixes trading exchange claims with heavy emphasis on wallet seed phrase backup and phishing warnings
Page description and title promote a 'trusted' crypto buy/sell marketplace with real-time prices and trading; user message explicitly flags Coinbase impersonation/clone attempt; site features Connect Wallet buttons and wallet backup emphasis typical of phishing drainers
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for apexledgerx.com and did not find public scam complaints or reports. However, the domain appears in threat intelligence databases alongside confirmed crypto-drainer and phishing operations (e.g., trustw-aml.com, chainanalisis.com, qfsglobalweb3.com). For a newly registered domain (25 days old) with no legitimate business presence, the absence of user complaints is expected—the site is likely still in its early fraud campaign phase. The lack of positive reviews or business registration, combined with our antivirus detections and clone-site confirmation, indicates this is an active phishing operation rather than a legitimate new service.
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 contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page impersonates Coinbase on a non-official domain.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://apexledgerx.com/
- 2301https://www.apexledgerx.com/encross-domain
- 3200https://www.apexledgerx.com/public/en/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
4 scam-type patterns detected
4 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.
- Page claims to be Coinbase.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- AI analyst tagged this as crypto fraud / wallet-drainer.
- Page asks for wallet connect or seed-phrase / private key.
- AI analyst categorised the site as crypto-themed.
- AI analyst tagged this as a giveaway / airdrop / lottery scam.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
4 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.
- Page claims to be Coinbase.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- AI analyst tagged this as crypto fraud / wallet-drainer.
- Page asks for wallet connect or seed-phrase / private key.
- AI analyst categorised the site as crypto-themed.
- AI analyst tagged this as a giveaway / airdrop / lottery scam.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with apexledgerx.com
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.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags apexledgerx.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — apexledgerx.com scored 8/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. apexledgerx.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E7, expiring in 64 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- apexledgerx.com is 25 days old, registered on 5/14/2026 through Unstoppable Domains Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 3 out of 91 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged apexledgerx.com as malicious or suspicious (2 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. apexledgerx.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- apexledgerx.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (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.
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