Critical risk detected
Domain was registered only 5 days ago — brand-new sites are higher-risk by default. Our security stack flagged multiple threat indicators on this website. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Is dao-ethena.fi legit or a scam?
Five-day-old phishing domain mimicking Ethena DAO, flagged by Forcepoint and Kaspersky as phishing with no legitimate business presence.
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 dao-ethena.fi was registered only 5 days ago and immediately began loading external resources from app.ethena.fi — a classic impersonation pattern. Forcepoint ThreatSeeker and Kaspersky both independently flagged it as phishing, while Gridinsoft marked it suspicious. The page itself is a Next.js application shell with no visible content, no contact email, no postal address, and no business information — hallmarks of a credential-harvesting or fund-draining setup. The domain name closely mirrors legitimate Ethena infrastructure, and the rapid deployment combined with phishing detections strongly suggests this is a clone site designed to intercept user credentials or transactions. The clean IP reputation and valid SSL certificate do not override the phishing consensus and structural red flags.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for dao-ethena.fi, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
No scam reports or complaints found in independent sources.
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (35465-945).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://dao-ethena.fi/
- 2200https://dao-ethena.fi/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 scam-type patterns detected
2 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.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
2 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.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- 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 dao-ethena.fi
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 dao-ethena.fi as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — dao-ethena.fi scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. dao-ethena.fi presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 84 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- dao-ethena.fi is 5 days old, registered on 6/2/2026. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 3 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged dao-ethena.fi as malicious or suspicious (2 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. dao-ethena.fi is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- dao-ethena.fi 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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