nub-on-sol[.]com

Analysis of nub-on-sol.com shows a newly registered domain (creation date 21 February 2026) that is actively used for a crypto‑related impersonation of the Solana brand. The domain resolves to the IP address 188.114.96.3, which belongs to Cloudflare, Inc. (AS13335) and is located in the United States. DNS resolution is handled by the Cloudflare‑provided nameservers danica.ns.cloudflare.com and pete.ns.cloudflare.com, indicating that the attacker is leveraging Cloudflare’s edge network and HTTP/3 support. An SSL certificate issued by Google Trust Services (certificate authority WE1) is present, providing a valid TLS handshake that could lend the site an appearance of legitimacy. The HTTP response code returned is 525, indicating an SSL handshake failure between Cloudflare and the origin server; this suggests that the malicious payload is hosted behind Cloudflare but may be misconfigured or intentionally inaccessible to automated scanners.

The page title reported by surface inspection is “$nub Airdrop”, and the scam type is identified as a crypto scam, specifically targeting users familiar with Solana’s token ecosystem. The domain is listed on two security blocklists, notably PhishDestroy and ScamSniffer, and VirusTotal scans show two of ninety‑three security vendors flagging the domain as malicious. These detections reinforce the likelihood that the site is being used to lure victims into fraudulent airdrop schemes.

While the public evidence confirms the domain’s registration details (registrar MAT BAO CORPORATION) and its association with Cloudflare infrastructure, the exact content hosted at the origin server remains unverified due to the SSL handshake error. Defenders should block the domain at network perimeter devices, add the IP 188.114.96.3 to deny‑list rules, and monitor for any DNS queries to the associated Cloudflare nameservers.