www-curve[.]finance

Analysis of the domain www-curve.finance, created on February 21 2026, shows a high‑risk brand‑impersonation infrastructure targeting the Curve brand. The site resolves to IP address 188.114.96.3, which belongs to AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. and is geolocated in the United States. DNS resolution is handled by the Cloudflare authoritative nameservers mark.ns.cloudflare.com and uma.ns.cloudflare.com, indicating the use of Cloudflare’s edge network for traffic forwarding and protection. The SSL certificate presented by the server is issued by Google Trust Services under the WE1 intermediate, confirming that TLS termination is performed by Cloudflare’s managed certificate service.

An HTTP request returns a 403 status code, and the page title observed is "Even geduld...", providing no further functional context. Detected technologies include HTTP/3, HSTS enforcement, Cloudflare Browser Insights, and the Cloudflare CDN itself. Threat intelligence feeds have flagged the domain on a single blocklist (PhishDestroy) and four of ninety‑three VirusTotal security vendors have marked it as malicious, reinforcing the suspicion of abuse. The registrar listed is NiceNIC International Group Co., Limited, a known provider for many short‑lived malicious domains.

The site is classified as a crypto‑scam, suggesting attempts to lure victims into fraudulent cryptocurrency transactions while masquerading as Curve‑related services. While the exact payload or credential‑stealing mechanisms have not been observed, the combination of brand impersonation, Cloudflare‑hosted infrastructure, a non‑standard HTTP response, and multiple vendor detections indicate an active malicious operation. Defenders should block the domain at perimeter firewalls and DNS resolvers, monitor outbound connections to the associated IP, and add the domain to internal blocklists.