Is yfibalancer.finance legit or a scam?
A malicious Chainlink clone site using a fake $23 million airdrop lure to trick users into connecting and draining their crypto wallets.
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.
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.
- ·"Connect wallet" paired with a high-urgency action ("claim", "migrate", "revalidate", "verify", "sync").
Analysis Summary
Crypto scam / wallet-drainer
A malicious Chainlink clone site using a fake $23 million airdrop lure to trick users into connecting and draining their crypto wallets. Signals match fake investment platforms and wallet drainers. Never connect a wallet, paste a seed phrase, or deposit crypto here.
Website Preview
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MT Intelligence
The site is a direct visual clone of the legitimate Chainlink website, copying its branding, partner logos, and technical descriptions to appear authentic. It promotes a nonexistent partnership with Balancer Finance and a fake airdrop of 1.02 million LINK tokens to create a sense of urgency. Our intelligence stack identified the domain as a typosquat of the official chain.link address, a common tactic used in phishing. The primary goal of the page is to induce users to click 'Claim Rewards,' which triggers a wallet connection designed to authorize malicious transactions. Despite being 305 days old, the site has no legitimate business registration or official social media presence.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for yfibalancer.finance, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain yfibalancer.finance is approximately 305 days old and hosts content impersonating Chainlink with a fake airdrop for $LINK tied to a nonexistent "Balancer Finance" partnership.
- The site title and large sections of text are directly copied from the legitimate Chainlink website (chain.link), including descriptions of infrastructure for onchain finance, tokenized assets, and trusted partners like Swift, Fidelity, J.P
- Promotes a "Chainlink's biggest Airdrop to date" with 1.02M LINK ($23.9M) value, snapshot in Sep 2025, 231K+ eligible wallets, and a form to "Check Eligibility" by entering wallet address followed by "Claim Rewards".
- Associated with low-cap ERC-20 token YFIB (contract 0x03829f5675f3b51d0f8c2a74417a757625acf22f) described as a Yearn.finance + Balancer yield aggregator; token has very low market cap (~$9K–$34K) and minimal trading volume.
- No official social media, whitepaper, audited contracts, or disclaimers found; GitHub and Medium references are for the unrelated low-value YFIB token project.
- No reviews, complaints, or mentions on Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, Reddit, or major scam trackers; the domain and token appear in token lists and Etherscan as a minor/possible meme or abandoned DeFi fork.
- Typical airdrop phishing pattern: uses reputable brand names (Chainlink, Balancer) to lure wallet connections on a non-official domain.
- Page content analysisopen
"NEW Chainlink's biggest Airdrop to date has officially landed! ... Chainlink and Balancer Finance have officially joined forces. ... Check your eligibility and claim your $LINK rewards today."
Page title and content are copied verbatim from Chainlink's official site ("Chainlink - The standard for onchain finance", sections on onchain finance, trusted by Swift/Euroclear/Fidelity/J.P. Morgan/Mastercard/Aave/GMX, FAQs). Promotes fake "Chainlink × Balancer Finance" airdrop with wallet eligibility check and claim buttons.
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 contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1307http://yfibalancer.finance/
- 2307https://balancer-chainlink.com/?claim_id=490221cross-domain
- 3301https://weddingwire.com/cross-domain
- 4200https://www.weddingwire.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
3 scam-type patterns detected
3 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 crypto fraud / wallet-drainer.
- AI analyst tagged this as an airdrop / drainer.
- AI analyst categorised the site as crypto-themed.
- Domain is a typosquat of chain.link.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- Domain is a typosquat of chain.link.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing / data-harvesting.
3 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 crypto fraud / wallet-drainer.
- AI analyst tagged this as an airdrop / drainer.
- AI analyst categorised the site as crypto-themed.
- Domain is a typosquat of chain.link.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- Domain is a typosquat of chain.link.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing / data-harvesting.
Crypto scam / wallet-drainer indicators
The page shows patterns common to crypto-investment scams, fake airdrops, and wallet drainers.
- Do not interact with yfibalancer.finance
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Never paste your seed phrase anywhere
Legitimate wallets, exchanges and support staff will never ask for your 12/24-word recovery phrase. Typing it into any website — even one that looks real — gives attackers full access to your funds.
- If you already connected a wallet
Revoke token approvals immediately using revoke.cash or Etherscan's Token Approvals tool. Move remaining funds to a fresh wallet (new seed phrase). Assume the original wallet is compromised.
- OpenReport the wallet and URL
File a report at IC3 (FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center) or your country's cybercrime portal. Recovery is unlikely, but reports help law enforcement map the network.
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 yfibalancer.finance as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — yfibalancer.finance scored 19/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. yfibalancer.finance presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 47 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- yfibalancer.finance is 10 months old, registered on 8/17/2025 through NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report yfibalancer.finance as clean.
- No. yfibalancer.finance is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- yfibalancer.finance 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 19, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around yfibalancer.finance have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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