# PhishDestroy threat dossier — aave.com-auth-api-gateway-beta-online.cloud ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-06-26 13:49:25 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/aave.com-auth-api-gateway-beta-online.cloud/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- TAKEN DOWN (neutralised) Composite threat score: 90/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) Scam classification: wallet_connect_phish Targeted brand: Aave (and: metamask) Wallet drainer: Angel Drainer ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 3/95 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: Fortinet, SOCRadar, Trustwave Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist Victim re-reports (public form): 1 ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 188.114.97.3 (US, San Francisco) ASN: ASAS13335 CLOUDFLARENET, US Hosting org: AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. Registrar: Web Commerce Communications Limited Nameservers: jack.ns.cloudflare.com, lia.ns.cloudflare.com Registered: 2025-10-28 Expires: 2026-10-28 Page title: Aave - Open Source Liquidity Protocol ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: none Status: INVALID chain ## ABUSE-REPORT HISTORY (evidence of registrar non-response) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Status: CLOSED — no report required. This domain was neutralised before the abuse-report cycle could be dispatched — either the hosting provider / registrar suspended it on their own, the DNS went dead, or the operator abandoned the infrastructure. PhishDestroy keeps the evidence bundle on file for audit but no formal notice was sent. ## TIMELINE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Domain registered: 2025-10-28 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-02-25 02:39:27 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) First reported: 2025-10-29 01:03:25 UTC (abuse notice filed) Last verified: 2026-06-26 12:20:35 UTC Neutralised: 2026-02-23 03:15:03 UTC Current status: taken down (registrar suspended or DNS dead) ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019a2d7d-4026-76fa-9125-cfc28b596820/ Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/aave.com-auth-api-gateway-beta-online.cloud crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.aave.com-auth-api-gateway-beta-online.cloud Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=aave.com-auth-api-gateway-beta-online.cloud AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/aave.com-auth-api-gateway-beta-online.cloud URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/aave.com-auth-api-gateway-beta-online.cloud/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-06-24 11:53:18 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] The domain aave.com-auth-api-gateway-beta-online.cloud impersonates the brand Aave and has a high threat score of 75/100. The site is currently down, indicating it has likely been taken down due to its malicious activities. VirusTotal reports that 3 out of 95 security vendors, including Fortinet, SOCRadar, and Trustwave, have flagged this domain as malicious. It is also listed on one public blocklist, while Google Safe Browsing has not flagged it. Registered on October 28, 2025, the domain was first detected on October 29, 2025. It is registered with Web Commerce Communications Limited and hosted on IP address 188.114.97.3. Given the confirmed phishing nature of this domain, block it at the perimeter and submit a report to the registrar's abuse desk. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- Favicon SHA-256: 56ab4a8a2e2a3a19309e85cf5f8229783c7c707c543b1cd57010209fc77bf6bf ## SCORING METHODOLOGY ---------------------------------------------------------------- Composite score is NOT derived from VirusTotal alone. PhishDestroy aggregates: - VirusTotal positive ratio - Public blocklist consensus (MetaMask, ScamSniffer, OpenPhish, PhishTank, URLhaus, CryptoFirewall, SEAL, Polkadot, Enkrypt, Phishunt, DiscordPhishing, PhishingDB) - Cloaking detection (HTTP 666 or rendering delta between bot and real visitor) - DNS-filter consensus (Quad9, CleanBrowsing, NextDNS, AdGuard, Cloudflare, etc.) - AlienVault OTX pulses + Cloudflare Radar + Google Safe Browsing - URLScan / URLQuery verdicts - Brand-impersonation heuristics (DOM analysis of forms, logos, wording) - Known phishing-kit fingerprinting (favicon hash, JS obfuscation signatures) - Wallet-drainer family classification (Angel, MS, Rainbow, Pink, Inferno, ...) - Free-TLS vs paid-cert ratio (throwaway infrastructure signal) - Registrar/hosting abuse history (this registrar's track record) - Human researcher sign-off (volunteer takedown team) A domain present in our database is ALREADY flagged. A low VT count by itself does NOT mean the domain is safe — new scam domains routinely show 0/95 VT for their first 7–30 days while actively draining wallets. Always cross-reference the composite score and the individual indicators above, not just VT. ## CORRECTIONS / APPEALS ---------------------------------------------------------------- Full HTML report: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/aave.com-auth-api-gateway-beta-online.cloud/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=aave.com-auth-api-gateway-beta-online.cloud Appeal a flag: https://phishdestroy.io/appeals/ (responded to within 48 hours, FP rate <0.01%) Submit a report: https://t.me/PhishDestroy_bot About PhishDestroy: volunteer-driven open-source threat-intelligence platform. Tracked: 170,466 domains (12,512 alive under monitoring, 157,587 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io