growthfundingzone[.]com

The domain growthfundingzone.com was registered on August 31, 2024 through NameSilo, LLC and is currently classified as a high‑risk, active brand‑impersonation campaign targeting Coinbase. It appears on a single security blocklist and has been blocked by PhishDestroy. The server‑provided page title reads “Growthfundingzone - Online Investment Company”, which matches the declared cryptocurrency investment scam type.

Infrastructure analysis shows the domain resolves to IP 102.209.117.141, located in South Africa and announced by AS329184 (Host Africa (Pty) Ltd). The host presents a valid Let’s Encrypt TLS certificate signed with the E7 root, confirming encrypted connections. The web server responded with HTTP 200, supports HTTP/3, and runs on LiteSpeed. Detected front‑end libraries include Bootstrap, jQuery, GSAP, OWL Carousel, Smartsupp, and the Owl Carousel component. DNS resolution is delegated to four nameservers: dan1.host-ww.net, dan2.host-ww.net, dan3.host-ww.net, and dan4.host-ww.net.

Reputation services assign a Gridinsoft trust score of 0 out of 100, indicating the host is completely untrusted. VirusTotal analysis reports that 9 of 95 scanning engines flagged the domain as malicious. The campaign’s scam type is identified as cryptocurrency, but the exact phishing workflow, credential‑harvesting pages, or malicious payloads have not been disclosed, leaving those operational details uncertain.

Defenders should immediately block DNS resolution to 102.209.117.141 and add growthfundingzone.com to network and endpoint blocklists. Continuous monitoring of the associated nameservers and the hosting ASN is advised, as the operator may shift to additional infrastructure. Incident response teams handling Coinbase‑related alerts should treat any traffic to this domain as compromised, advise users to avoid interaction, and share the observed indicators of compromise with upstream providers to improve collective defenses.