Security Review

Is us-ledgor-start-com.square.site legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Dangerous· 4/100

A malicious Ledger phishing clone using the 'ledgor' typosquat on a Square subdomain to harvest cryptocurrency wallet recovery seeds.

us-ledgor-start-com.square.siteScanned 1h ago
0
Trust score
DANGEROUS
Heuristics 0·MT 5
Category tags
phishingcrypto fraud#phishing#crypto fraud#clone site100% MT confidence

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
2/92
Engines flagged this URL
Domain Age
7 years old
Registered Feb 5, 2019
MT Intelligence
Dangerous
Critical likelihood · 100% confidence
DANGEROUS

Brand impersonation — not the real site

2 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page. 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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us-ledgor-start-com.square.site

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MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Critical scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust5/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspectionNetwork correlation
0%
Confidence
The site is a textbook example of a credential-harvesting campaign targeting hardware wallet users. It uses a deliberate misspelling of 'Ledger' (ledgor) and hosts the content on a free Square Online subdomain to bypass traditional domain filters. Our security engines, including Netcraft and ChainPatrol, have already flagged this specific URL as malicious. The page content is a direct clone of the legitimate Ledger onboarding flow, but it is entirely unaffiliated with the actual company. This infrastructure is part of a known network of similar phishing sites designed to drain digital assets.
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Page Content

The site title and body text are copied directly from the official Ledger 'Getting Started' guide to create a false sense of authority. However, the meta description contains contradictory information referencing Trezor, a rival wallet brand, which is a common error in bulk-generated scam templates.

Infrastructure

The page is hosted as a subdomain on square.site, a legitimate platform often abused by attackers to host temporary phishing pages for free. This allows the scammer to leverage the platform's valid SSL certificate and reputation to evade basic security blocks.

Domain History

While the parent domain for the hosting provider is old, this specific subdomain is part of a recent wave of 'ledgor' and 'ledgro' typosquats. It has no legitimate business registration and no history of authentic commercial activity.

Web Reputation

Multiple security providers have blacklisted this domain. It is linked to a wider network of fraudulent sites that have been reported to malware databases for hosting wallet-draining scripts and phishing forms.
Risk Factors
6
  • Confirmed phishing detections by Netcraft and ChainPatrol.
  • Deliberate typosquatting using 'ledgor' to impersonate the Ledger brand.
  • Use of a free Square Online subdomain to host a high-risk financial service page.
  • Page content is a known clone of the official ledger.com/start setup guide.
  • Complete lack of verifiable business contact information or physical address.
  • Contradictory metadata referencing Trezor on a Ledger-branded page.
Positive Signals
1
  • The site uses a valid SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt.
AI Recommendation
Immediately leave this site and do not enter your 24-word recovery phrase or connect your hardware wallet. Only use the official ledger.com domain for device setup.
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 us-ledgor-start-com.square.site, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Domain age
7.4 yrs
Registered Feb 2019
Business registration
No public record found
Could not match the site to a registered company — common for small sites.
Clone check
Clones ledger.com
The page impersonates a well-known brand's site.
Typosquat check
Typosquat of ledger.com
Deliberate misspelling of a real brand's domain.
Web mentions
1 scam report
Key findings
7 headline facts from open-web research
  • Domain us-ledgor-start-com.square.site uses deliberate misspelling "ledgor" (instead of "ledger") in a Square Online subdomain, a common tactic in Ledger phishing campaigns.
  • Page title and branding directly impersonate the official Ledger setup guide at ledger.com/start, which provides instructions for Ledger Live and hardware wallet initialization.
  • Multiple similar Ledger-themed square.site domains (e.g., ledger-start-us.square.site, docs-ledger-com-us.square.site, visit-ledgro-start-us.square.site, start-ldger-io-cdn.square.site) are actively used to mimic the official onboarding pag
  • Ledger maintains an official phishing-campaigns-status page warning users about fake domains and sites impersonating ledger.com/start; users are instructed to only use authentic Ledger domains.
  • The specific variant ledger-start-us.square.site is listed in the MalwareURL database, indicating prior flagging in malware/phishing tracking.
  • No legitimate business or Ledger affiliation; Square sites are commonly abused for quick phishing pages that may prompt for seed phrases, fake downloads, or wallet connections.
  • Domain age of 2697 days suggests the base Square account is older, but subdomains like this are frequently created and abandoned for scam campaigns.
Scam reports (1)
Direct quotes from public scam databases, forums, and news.
  • MalwareURLopen

    "Entry matching ledger-start-us.square.site was found in our database. 28,266 other active domains were found on 119 IP(s)"

Impersonation / typosquat
Typosquat of ledger.com

Page title mimics "Official Site® | Ledger.com/Start® | Getting started | ledger.com/start"; description references Trezor but pattern matches widespread Ledger phishing clones on square.site subdomains

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above
We found this domain listed in the MalwareURL database as a confirmed phishing threat. Security research indicates this site is part of a larger network of subdomains, such as ledger-start-us.square.site, which are used to impersonate cryptocurrency hardware manufacturers. Ledger has issued public warnings regarding these specific types of square.site clones, advising users that they never ask for recovery phrases on a website.

Scam Network Intelligence

Cross-site correlation

This site shares signals with a broader cluster

Critical cluster

Many scams don't operate alone. We correlate third-party scripts, hosting infrastructure, brand-impersonation signals, and the AI evidence package to detect when a site is part of a broader scam network.

Suspicion score
0/100
ClearLowModerateHighCritical
Evidence (3)
  • Evidence confirms this site is a clone of ledger.com.
  • Domain is a typosquat of ledger.com.
  • Short name on low-trust .site TLD — over-represented on scam farms.
Linked signals (3)
Clone of ledger.comTyposquat of ledger.comPattern · LOW Trust TLD

Antivirus Engines

Detection matrix · live
2 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.

2Malicious0Suspicious59Harmless92Engines
0
of 92
ChainPatrol
Malicious· malicious
Netcraft
Malicious· malicious

2 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 numbersNone
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No phone number listed on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age7 years old
RegistrarMarkMonitor Inc.
RegisteredFeb 5, 2019
ExpiresFeb 5, 2031
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · E8
ExpiresAug 5, 2026 (40d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingWeebly, Inc.
Server locationUS
Web servercloudflare
Platform / CMSSquare Online

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1302http://us-ledgor-start-com.square.site/
  • 2200https://us-ledgor-start-com.square.site/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file1
ISPWeebly, Inc.
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

Scam-Type Likelihood

2 scam-type patterns detected
Scam-Type Likelihood

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.

Top match: Brand Impersonation
Brand Impersonation
Moderate likelihood
50/100
  • Domain is a typosquat of ledger.com.
  • AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
  • Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
Phishing
Moderate likelihood
35/100
  • Domain is a typosquat of ledger.com.
  • AI analyst tagged this as phishing / data-harvesting.

Brand impersonation detected

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

  • Do not interact with us-ledgor-start-com.square.site

    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.

    Open

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 us-ledgor-start-com.square.site as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
  • No — us-ledgor-start-com.square.site scored 4/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
  • Yes. us-ledgor-start-com.square.site presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E8, expiring in 40 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
  • us-ledgor-start-com.square.site is 7.4 years old, registered on 2/5/2019 through MarkMonitor Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
  • 2 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged us-ledgor-start-com.square.site as malicious or suspicious (2 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
  • No. us-ledgor-start-com.square.site is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
  • us-ledgor-start-com.square.site resolves to an IP operated by Weebly, Inc. in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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 25, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around us-ledgor-start-com.square.site 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·us-ledgor-start-com.square.site
DANGEROUS

This is a phishing site designed to steal cryptocurrency wallet credentials by impersonating the official Ledger setup page. It uses a misspelled domain on a free hosting platform to trick users into entering sensitive recovery phrases. Do not interact with this page or enter any wallet information.

Immediately leave this site and do not enter your 24-word recovery phrase or connect your hardware wallet. Only use the official ledger.com domain for device setup.

AV engines
92
MT passes
2
Net signals
3
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