steaminventory-helper[.]com

steaminventory-helper.com was registered on 21 February 2026 through NiceNIC International Group Co., Limited. The authoritative nameservers aragorn.ns.cloudflare.com and arushi.ns.cloudflare.com resolve the domain to the Cloudflare edge address 172.67.189.170, which is advertised as located in the United States under ASN 13335 (Cloudflare, Inc.). An HTTPS connection is presented using a Google Trust Services certificate issued to the WE1 domain, indicating a valid TLS chain. The web server returns HTTP 200 for the root request and supplies a page title in Russian reading “Steam Inventory Helper – Официальный Хаб с Steam Инструментами”, explicitly referencing the Steam brand. The page title and the listed brand target “Steam” align with a gaming‑related scam classification.

VirusTotal analysis shows that two of ninety‑five scanning engines have flagged the domain as malicious, and the domain appears on a single external blocklist. PhishDestroy has already added the domain to its blocklist, and Gridinsoft assigns a trust score of 0 out of 100, reflecting a high confidence of abuse. The risk rating is marked as high and the infrastructure remains active as of the report date 24 July 2026. Evidence confirms that the domain is being used to impersonate Steam services, likely to harvest credentials or monetize through fraudulent inventory tools.

However, the exact payload, phishing pages, or credential‑stealing mechanisms have not been publicly disclosed, and no sample URLs beyond the root have been analyzed. Defenders should block traffic to 172.67.189.170 and to the domain steaminventory‑helper.com at DNS and proxy layers, monitor for outbound connections to Cloudflare edge nodes, and add the domain to internal blocklists. Continuous re‑scanning with multi‑engine services is recommended to capture any new malicious components.