halo-social[.]gate-cryptolist[.]com

Analysis of halo-social.gate-cryptolist.com shows an active generic phishing infrastructure that has been operating since the domain’s creation on June 17, 2024. The domain resolves to the IP address 188.114.96.3 and is served through Cloudflare name servers (dale.ns.cloudflare.com and vera.ns.cloudflare.com), indicating the use of a CDN for traffic masking and potential rapid reconfiguration of the hosting layer. The registrar listed is Key-Systems GmbH, a known registrar that does not inherently imply malicious intent but confirms the domain’s legitimate registration pathway.

The domain is presently listed on one security blocklist and has been explicitly blocked by the PhishDestroy filtering service, demonstrating that at least one industry‑wide sinkhole has flagged the host as malicious. VirusTotal scans have recorded 14 detections out of 91 security vendors, providing a moderate consensus among anti‑malware engines that the domain is associated with phishing or credential‑stealing activity. No additional intelligence such as page titles, SSL certificate details, HTTP response codes, or Safe Browsing verdicts is available, leaving the exact content and delivery mechanisms unverified.

Defenders should therefore prioritize immediate containment: add the domain and its resolving IP to outbound deny lists, ensure that DNS filtering solutions block queries to both the domain and its Cloudflare name servers, and monitor for any traffic anomalies targeting 188.114.96.3. Continuous re‑evaluation is advised, as changes to the underlying hosting or page content could alter the threat profile. Organizations employing credential‑validation controls should treat any authentication attempts to services tied to halo‑social.gate‑cryptolist.com as potentially compromised and enforce multi‑factor authentication where possible.