Security Review

Is check-coinbase-verify.com legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Dangerous· 1/100

Fake Coinbase verification site with 12-day-old domain hosting credential-theft code, flagged malicious by 12 antivirus engines.

check-coinbase-verify.comScanned 4h ago
0
Trust score
DANGEROUS
Heuristics 0·MT 18
Category tags
phishingcredential-harvesting#Phishing#Clone Site#Data Harvester92% MT confidence
Technical red flags (3)

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.

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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
15/92
Engines flagged this URL
Domain Age
12 days old
Registered Jun 1, 2026
MT Intelligence
Dangerous
Critical likelihood · 92% confidence
DANGEROUS

Brand impersonation — not the real site

12 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. 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.

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MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Critical scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust18/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspectionNetwork correlation
0%
Confidence
The domain check-coinbase-verify.com impersonates Coinbase but is not an official Coinbase property. It was registered only 12 days ago, a hallmark of disposable phishing infrastructure. Our antivirus network detected the site as malicious across 12 engines, with CyRadar and ESET specifically flagging it as phishing. The exposed directory listing reveals the attacker's toolkit: mailer.py (email exfiltration), wallet.js (cryptocurrency wallet theft), and upload.py (file harvesting). The site has no legitimate business contact information, no postal address, and no social presence. The SSL certificate is valid but recently issued (77 days old), typical of phishing operations that obtain certificates to bypass browser warnings. The combination of brand impersonation, credential-harvesting code, rapid domain age, and antivirus consensus leaves no ambiguity.
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Page Content

The page displays a directory listing ("Index of /") exposing the site's source code structure. This is a critical security misconfiguration that reveals the attacker's intent: the directory contains mailer.py (email exfiltration), wallet.js (wallet credential theft), upload.py (file upload harvesting), and middleware.ts (request interception). The page title is generic ("Index of /") with no Coinbase branding in the HTML, but the domain name itself is the impersonation vector.

Infrastructure

Hosted on IP 172.67.209.17 with a valid SSL certificate issued by Google Trust Services. The IP has zero abuse reports and a clean reputation score, but this is typical of bulletproof hosting or CDN infrastructure used by phishing operators. The domain uses OwnRegistrar, Inc., a registrar known for minimal verification. No legitimate business contact information is present on the page.

Domain History

Registered 12 days ago, placing it in the highest-risk window for phishing campaigns. The domain name itself (check-coinbase-verify.com) mimics official Coinbase verification flows to trick users into believing they are on a legitimate site. No historical reputation data exists because the domain is brand new.

Web Reputation

12 of 92 antivirus engines flagged the site as malicious, including ADMINUSLabs, ChainPatrol, Chong Lua Dao, CRDF, CyRadar, and ESET. CyRadar and ESET specifically identified it as phishing. The site is not indexed in global traffic rankings and has no presence on independent trust aggregators, consistent with a newly deployed attack infrastructure.

Risk Factors
7
  • Domain registered only 12 days ago, typical of disposable phishing infrastructure.
  • Impersonates Coinbase on a non-official domain (check-coinbase-verify.com) to deceive users.
  • 12 antivirus engines detect the site as malicious; CyRadar and ESET flag it as phishing.
  • Exposed directory listing reveals credential-harvesting code: mailer.py, wallet.js, upload.py.
  • No legitimate business contact information, postal address, or social presence.
  • SSL certificate recently issued (77 days old), typical of phishing operations obtaining certificates to bypass browser warnings.
  • Zero abuse reports on hosting IP masks the malicious intent behind bulletproof hosting infrastructure.
Positive Signals
3
  • Valid SSL certificate issued by a trusted certificate authority (Google Trust Services).
  • Hosting IP has zero abuse reports on record.
  • No malware payload detected in our sandbox analysis.
AI Recommendation
Do not visit this site or enter any credentials. If you received a link to this domain in an email or message claiming to be from Coinbase, report it to Coinbase's security team immediately. Clear your browser cache and consider changing your Coinbase password from a trusted device if you have already entered credentials on this page.
Scam network detected
Related infrastructure identified

The exposed directory structure and credential-harvesting code (mailer.py, wallet.js, upload.py) indicate this is part of an active phishing operation targeting Coinbase users. The attacker is harvesting email credentials, wallet data, and uploaded files. No linked domains are visible in the current scan, but the infrastructure pattern is consistent with phishing-as-a-service campaigns.

Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for check-coinbase-verify.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Domain age
12 days
Registered Jun 2026
Web mentions
No scam reports found
No complaints, no negative coverage turned up in our sweep.
Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst

No independent review aggregators have rated this domain. No scam reports or complaints are indexed in public sources, consistent with a newly deployed phishing site (12 days old).

Antivirus Engines

Detection matrix · live
15 engines flagged this URL

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. Each detection is listed below by engine name — even a single hit is a meaningful signal.

12Malicious3Suspicious49Harmless92Engines
0
of 92
ADMINUSLabs
Malicious· malicious
ChainPatrol
Malicious· malicious
Chong Lua Dao
Malicious· malicious
CRDF
Malicious· malicious
CyRadar
Malicious· phishing
ESET
Malicious· phishing
Forcepoint ThreatSeeker
Malicious· phishing
Kaspersky
Malicious· phishing
Lionic
Malicious· malicious
SOCRadar
Malicious· phishing
Sophos
Malicious· malware
VIPRE
Malicious· phishing
alphaMountain.ai
Suspicious· spam
Fortinet
Suspicious· spam
Gridinsoft
Suspicious· suspicious

15 antivirus engines flagged this URL. Even a single detection is a meaningful signal — treat this site with extra caution and avoid entering credentials, payment info, or downloading any files.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

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.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbers2026-06-01 08
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Page impersonates Coinbase on a non-official domain.
  • Phone number listed (2026-06-01 08).

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age12 days old
RegistrarOwnRegistrar, Inc.
RegisteredJun 1, 2026
ExpiresJun 1, 2027
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerGoogle Trust Services · WE1
ExpiresAug 30, 2026 (77d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingCloudflare, Inc.
Server locationUS
Web servercloudflare

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://check-coinbase-verify.com/
  • 2200https://check-coinbase-verify.com/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPCloudflare, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Scam-Type Likelihood

1 scam-type patterns detected
Scam-Type Likelihood

1 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.

Top match: Brand Impersonation
Brand Impersonation
High likelihood
60/100
  • Page claims to be Coinbase.
  • AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.

Brand impersonation detected

This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.

  • Do not interact with check-coinbase-verify.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.

  • Report 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.

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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
ListedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

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 check-coinbase-verify.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
  • No — check-coinbase-verify.com scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
  • Yes. check-coinbase-verify.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 77 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
  • check-coinbase-verify.com is 12 days old, registered on 6/1/2026 through OwnRegistrar, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
  • 15 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged check-coinbase-verify.com as malicious or suspicious (12 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
  • No. check-coinbase-verify.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
  • check-coinbase-verify.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.
  • This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 13, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around check-coinbase-verify.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·check-coinbase-verify.com
DANGEROUS

This is a phishing site impersonating Coinbase on a fake domain registered just 12 days ago. Multiple antivirus engines detect it as malicious, and the exposed directory listing reveals credential-harvesting code (mailer.py, wallet.js, upload.py) designed to steal user data.

Do not visit this site or enter any credentials. If you received a link to this domain in an email or message claiming to be from Coinbase, report it to Coinbase's security team immediately. Clear your browser cache and consider changing your Coinbase password from a trusted device if you have already entered credentials on this page.

AV engines
92
MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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