Brand impersonation — not the real site
Fake Ledger Live desktop download site impersonating the official crypto wallet for theft via brand cloning. 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 ledgerlivedesktop.us legit or a scam?
Fake Ledger Live desktop download site impersonating the official crypto wallet for theft via brand cloning.
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 page uses the exact Ledger Live title and branding but runs on a non-official .us domain with no business registration. Our research found a direct report identifying it as an active impersonation site built for crypto-drainer theft. The domain is only about 47 days old and resolves through a CDN that shows verification text instead of actual download content. No legitimate contact details or company records exist, and the site has zero positive mentions anywhere. These signals together confirm it is not a real Ledger service.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
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 CDN verification page with logo and contact info; no scam patterns visible.
Brand Impersonation
medium confidenceThe page mentions or styles itself as Ledger, but is hosted on a domain that is not an official Ledger property.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for ledgerlivedesktop.us, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain ledgerlivedesktop.us registered April 08, 2026 via Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu.
- Flagged by PhishDestroy as active Ledger brand-impersonation site for crypto-drainer theft; 4/95 VirusTotal detections, listed in MetaMask/PhishDestroy/SEAL blocklists.
- Resolves to IP 43.174.241.1 (Singapore); uses TrustAsia SSL certificate; cloaking detected.
- Site hosts 20+ pages mimicking Ledger Live desktop downloads (e.g., /ledger-live-desktop-download, OS-specific installers).
- Official Ledger downloads hosted exclusively at ledger.com/ledger-wallet or shop.ledger.com; no association with .us domain in official sources or support docs.
- Domain age approximately 47 days as of May 25, 2026; first detected May 21, 2026.
- PhishDestroyopen
"PhishDestroy identifies ledgerlivedesktop[.]us as an active brand-impersonation domain targeting Ledger users for crypto-drainer theft."
Exact match to official Ledger Live desktop download branding and page title; targets Ledger users.
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.
- Page impersonates Ledger on a non-official domain.
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.
- Page claims to be Ledger.
- 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.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
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.
- Page claims to be Ledger.
- 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.
- 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 ledgerlivedesktop.us
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 ledgerlivedesktop.us as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — ledgerlivedesktop.us scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. ledgerlivedesktop.us presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by TrustAsia Technologies, Inc. · TrustAsia DV TLS RSA CA 2025, expiring in 63 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged ledgerlivedesktop.us as malicious or suspicious. Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. ledgerlivedesktop.us is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- ledgerlivedesktop.us 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 official Ledger Live desktop wallet download. Our verdict is malicious because it is a confirmed brand clone with active scam reports targeting crypto users. Avoid it and download only from ledger.com.
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