Is prunebit.com safe?
http://prunebit.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (62 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
PruneBit is a 110-day-old "browser wallet" that asks visitors to type seed phrases and private keys into its pages, with no operator, no contact channel and multiple phishing detections against it.
prunebit.com describes itself as a non-custodial multi-coin wallet that runs in the browser, and its main buttons are Create New Wallet, Import or Restore and Open Dashboard. The restore flow explicitly accepts a BIP39 seed phrase or private key in WIF, xprv or 64-character hex form, and the dashboard offers to show the active wallet's private key. Anyone who pastes a real seed phrase or key into that flow hands over complete control of their funds, and the site names no company, no contact email, no address and no social profile, so there is nobody to hold responsible. A saved antivirus observation recorded 12 independent engines returning adverse results, mostly phishing labels, and independent research describes a very low trust score, a malware/suspicious classification and other suspicious sites on the same server. The clean Safe Browsing result and the 0/100 abuse score on the hosting IP do not offset a page whose core function is collecting wallet secrets.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan16 antivirus engines flagged this URLBitDefender, Chong Lua Dao, CRDF, CyRadar, desenmascara.meSaved antivirus result from Nov 1, 2026Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 12/100
Dangerous covers scores 1–20. 6 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- DecisiveThe page asks for a wallet secret, signature or token approval to obtain a promised benefit.-3 pts
- Decisive12 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.-2 pts
- ModerateThe restore flow accepts BIP39 seed phrases and private keys in WIF, xprv and 64-character hex form, and the dashboard offers to reveal the active wallet's private key.-1 pts
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "In summary, prunebit.com has a very low trust score which indicates that there is a strong likelyhood the website is a scam. Be very careful when using this…"-1 pts
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Gridinsoft currently classifies this site as Suspicious Website. The report highlights 2 blacklist detections, a very young domain (29 days), and no…"-1 pts
- MinorNo contact email appears on the captured page, and no company name, phone, address or social profile is visible in the rendered view.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the host.
- SupportsThe hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across two saved reports.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 20 to 12 and split those 8 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger.
Lost money or shared details on prunebit.com? Do this now
Act quickly: the first hours matter most for a chargeback.
- Call your bank or card issuer now
Ask them to dispute the charge or open a chargeback; the sooner you act, the better your odds. Card payments can often be reversed. Bank transfers and gift cards are harder, but report them to your bank too. Crypto payments usually cannot be reversed: report the wallet address and transaction ID to the exchange you sent from.
- Change any password you entered
If you entered a password on prunebit.com, change it there and anywhere you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. Keep screenshots, order confirmations and messages as evidence.
- Report the site
Reports help get scam sites taken down faster and warn other people.
- Report the domain to its registrar
NameCheap, Inc. takes abuse reports at abuse@namecheap.com (+1.6613102107). Include the address and what happened.
- Ignore anyone offering to recover your money
"Recovery" services or agents who contact you, or ask for a fee up front, are almost always a second scam aimed at victims. Your bank's dispute process and the official reporting services never charge a fee in advance.
Full answers about refunds and reporting are in the Safety FAQ below.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
prunebit.com describes itself as a non-custodial multi-coin wallet that runs in the browser, and its main buttons are Create New Wallet, Import or Restore and Open Dashboard. The restore flow explicitly accepts a BIP39 seed phrase or private key in WIF, xprv or 64-character hex form, and the dashboard offers to show the active wallet's private key. Anyone who pastes a real seed phrase or key into that flow hands over complete control of their funds, and the site names no company, no contact email, no address and no social profile, so there is nobody to hold responsible. A saved antivirus observation recorded 12 independent engines returning adverse results, mostly phishing labels, and independent research describes a very low trust score, a malware/suspicious classification and other suspicious sites on the same server. The clean Safe Browsing result and the 0/100 abuse score on the hosting IP do not offset a page whose core function is collecting wallet secrets.
The site's main job is getting you to type in a seed phrase or private key
The landing page advertises a wallet that "runs entirely on your browser" and pushes three actions: create a new wallet, import or restore an existing one, and open the dashboard. The restore page states plainly that it accepts "a BIP39 seed phrase or private key" and supports WIF, xprv and 64-character hex keys. The dashboard then offers to "access your private key for the active wallet".
A seed phrase or private key is the wallet itself: whoever holds it can move every coin without any further approval. Legitimate wallet software is normally installed and verified, not typed into a web page reached from an advertisement or a link. The page's own copy promises that keys stay on the machine and that seeds are encrypted with AES-256-GCM, but nothing on the site lets a visitor check that claim, and the pages that would receive the secret were not independently verified.
The page also asks visitors to generate a new BIP39 wallet, set a local password, save the seed phrase and unlock straight into the dashboard — a flow that produces a fresh secret on a site with no identified owner.
No owner, no contact route, and phishing verdicts on record
The captured page carries no contact email, and the rendered view shows no company name, phone number, postal address or social links anywhere. The domain is only 110 days old and was registered through NameCheap with ownership details not publicly available. For a product that holds the keys to someone's crypto, that absence of any accountable party is the decisive problem.
A saved antivirus observation recorded 12 independent engines returning adverse results, with phishing labels among them; that observation is stale, so it is treated as a real but dated signal rather than a live scan. Independent research adds a very low trust score, a Gridinsoft malware/suspicious classification with blacklist detections, and a note that other suspicious sites share the same server.
Two technical checks came back clean: the browser threat feed returned no threat warning, and the hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across two saved reports. Those results mean no blocklist entry was found at the time of the check; they say nothing about who runs the site or what happens to a seed phrase typed into it.
Why the score is 12
The page asks for a wallet secret, signature or token approval to obtain a promised benefit.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
16/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from November 1, 2026 - stale
16 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 13
- Suspicious
- 3
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| BitDefenderMalicious | phishing |
| Chong Lua DaoMalicious | malicious |
| CRDFMalicious | malicious |
| CyRadarMalicious | phishing |
| desenmascara.meMalicious | malicious |
| Forcepoint ThreatSeekerMalicious | phishing |
| FortinetMalicious | phishing |
| G-DataMalicious | phishing |
| LevelBlueMalicious | phishing |
| LionicMalicious | phishing |
| SOCRadarMalicious | phishing |
| SophosMalicious | phishing |
| VIPREMalicious | phishing |
| alphaMountain.aiSuspicious | suspicious |
| ESETSuspicious | suspicious |
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- BitDefender - phishing - Malicious
- Chong Lua Dao - Malicious
- CRDF - Malicious
- CyRadar - phishing - Malicious
- desenmascara.me - Malicious
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - phishing - Malicious
- Fortinet - phishing - Malicious
- G-Data - phishing - Malicious
- LevelBlue - phishing - Malicious
- Lionic - phishing - Malicious
- SOCRadar - phishing - Malicious
- Sophos - phishing - Malicious
- VIPRE - phishing - Malicious
- alphaMountain.ai - Suspicious
- ESET - Suspicious
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- CINS Army - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerphishing and other frauds
- Sophosphishing and fraud
- alphaMountain.aiSuspicious
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
Visual context from the captured page
Large headline reads "PruneBit is a secure multi-coin wallet Non-Custodial that runs entirely on your browser." Three prominent buttons: "Create New Wallet" (orange), "Import or Restore", and "Open Dashboard". Top ticker shows crypto prices: BTC $75,830.00 -0.18%, ETH $2,239.59 +0.12%, LTC $52.01 -1.45%, DOGE $0.0717 -0.78%, XRP $1.16 -2.35%, BCH $257.34 -4.05%. Header nav: Wallet, Products, Explorer, FAQ, language selector "English", theme toggle. Bottom cookie banner: "We currently use cookies to improve and personalize your experience on our website. PruneBit is non-custodial — only you control your keys. By continuing you accept our Terms and Privacy Policy." with Accept button. No company name, contact email, phone, address or social links are visible anywhere in the rendered viewport.
What the captured page showed
6 observations- 01
Large headline reads "PruneBit is a secure multi-coin wallet Non-Custodial that runs entirely on your browser."
- 02
Three prominent buttons: "Create New Wallet" (orange), "Import or Restore", and "Open Dashboard".
- 03
Top ticker shows crypto prices: BTC $75,830.00 -0.18%, ETH $2,239.59 +0.12%, LTC $52.01 -1.45%, DOGE $0.0717 -0.78%, XRP $1.16 -2.35%, BCH $257.34 -4.05%.
- 04
Header nav: Wallet, Products, Explorer, FAQ, language selector "English", theme toggle.
- 05
Bottom cookie banner: "We currently use cookies to improve and personalize your experience on our website. PruneBit is non-custodial — only you control your keys. By continuing you accept our Terms and Privacy Policy." with Accept button.
- 06
No company name, contact email, phone, address or social links are visible anywhere in the rendered viewport.
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
PruneBit - Secure Multi-Coin Wallet
- Meta description
PruneBit - Secure multi-coin wallet supporting Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Dogecoin and more. Full control of your crypto assets.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
PruneBit - Secure Multi-Coin Wallet
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 62 antivirus results.
What independent research found
5 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 6 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
Investment, Crypto & Wallet Fraud
Service and business model
Web3
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The page asks for a wallet secret, signature or token approval to obtain a promised benefit.
- 0212 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
- 03No contact email appears on the captured page, and no company name, phone, address or social profile is visible in the rendered view.
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.
- ·Page asks for a wallet seed phrase / recovery phrase — legitimate wallets never do this.
- ·Page asks the user to paste a private key.
What this means for you
What happens when a visitor uses the restore flow
A visitor who wants to manage an existing wallet is directed to the restore option, which asks for a BIP39 seed phrase or a private key in WIF, xprv or hex format. Submitting a real one puts full spending control of that wallet into the page.
How the observed mechanism works
The evidence-backed path
Each stage below is preserved from the grounded analysis and linked to saved evidence.
The dashboard then offers to display the active wallet's private key, which is the same secret in another form. There is no contact address on the site and no disclosed operator, so a visitor who loses funds this way has no route to the party responsible.
The connection itself is also unencrypted: a valid TLS certificate exists for the host, but the scanned address was served over plain HTTP with no redirect to HTTPS, so anything entered travels in the clear.
Do not enter a seed phrase, private key or WIF/xprv/hex key on prunebit.com, and do not create a wallet there and fund it. If you already typed a real seed phrase or key into this site, treat that wallet as compromised and move the funds to a wallet you set up in verified, installed software as soon as possible. Use wallet software from a known publisher that you downloaded directly, and never restore a wallet through a website.
Risk pattern correlation
Web research findings
Independent findings for prunebit.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- ScamAdviseropen
"In summary, prunebit.com has a very low trust score which indicates that there is a strong likelyhood the website is a scam. Be very careful when using this website!"
- ScamAdviseropen
"This website has been reported by Gridinsoft as possible malware"
- Gridinsoftopen
"Gridinsoft currently classifies this site as Suspicious Website. The report highlights 2 blacklist detections, a very young domain (29 days), and no established public user-review history."
- ScamAdviseropen
"We discovered that other suspicious sites are hosted on the same server as the website."
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too.
Infrastructure map
- Domainprunebit.com
- Redirects toprunebit.com
- Hosted byLiquidNet US LLC
Domain Timeline
- Jul 19, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 3 months old when this review was saved.
- Nov 7, 2026Saved security review — Rated Dangerous
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
prunebit.com was registered very recently when this review was saved and was already flagged. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, and a young domain with active threat signals warrants extra caution.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No direct contact email found on the captured page.
Domain & Encryption
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
Certificate issued for prunebit.com.
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Server Reputation
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
maliciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
The page asks for a wallet secret, signature or token approval to obtain a promised benefit. · 12 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The restore flow accepts BIP39 seed phrases and private keys in WIF, xprv and 64-character hex form, and the dashboard offers to reveal the active wallet's private key. · 2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "In summary, prunebit.com has a very low trust score which indicates that there is a strong likelyhood the website is a scam. Be very careful when using this…"
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 16 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Nov 1, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 7, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 7, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 6 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 7, 2026 |
| Independent research | 5 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 7, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result16 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Nov 1, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 7, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 7, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result6 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 7, 2026
- Independent research
- Result5 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 7, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is prunebit.com a scam or a legit crypto platform?
Is prunebit.com safe to use?
What should I do if I already sent funds to prunebit.com?
Can I get my money back from prunebit.com?
Is prunebit.com a Ponzi scheme or a real crypto investment?
How do I report prunebit.com?
Why does prunebit.com look legitimate if it's a scam?
Has prunebit.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is prunebit.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the prunebit.com domain?
Where is prunebit.com hosted?
How often is the prunebit.com report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
PruneBit is a 110-day-old "browser wallet" that asks visitors to type seed phrases and private keys into its pages, with no operator, no contact channel and multiple phishing detections against it.
prunebit.com describes itself as a non-custodial multi-coin wallet that runs in the browser, and its main buttons are Create New Wallet, Import or Restore and Open Dashboard. The restore flow explicitly accepts a BIP39 seed phrase or private key in WIF, xprv or 64-character hex form, and the dashboard offers to show the active wallet's private key. Anyone who pastes a real seed phrase or key into that flow hands over complete control of their funds, and the site names no company, no contact email, no address and no social profile, so there is nobody to hold responsible. A saved antivirus observation recorded 12 independent engines returning adverse results, mostly phishing labels, and independent research describes a very low trust score, a malware/suspicious classification and other suspicious sites on the same server. The clean Safe Browsing result and the 0/100 abuse score on the hosting IP do not offset a page whose core function is collecting wallet secrets.
09 · Community
Community
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