# PhishDestroy threat dossier — accounts.holtwealthfinance.com
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Fetched:   2026-04-22 15:50:49 UTC
Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/accounts.holtwealthfinance.com/

## VERDICT
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TAKEN DOWN (neutralised)
Composite threat score: 58/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below)
Scam classification: Credential Phishing

## DETECTION EVIDENCE
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VirusTotal:      3/95 security vendors flagged this domain
  Flagging vendors: Fortinet, Gridinsoft, Netcraft
Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist
Victim re-reports (public form): 1

## INFRASTRUCTURE
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IP address:      198.23.141.202 (US, Buffalo)
ASN:             ASAS36352 AS-COLOCROSSING, US
Hosting org:     AS36352 HostPapa
Registrar:       Atak Domain
Nameservers:     ns1.sagaciousdns.com, ns2.sagaciousdns.com
Registered:      2025-03-30
Expires:         2026-03-30
Page title:      Welcome to | Holtwealthfinance
HTTP response:   403

## TLS CERTIFICATE
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Issuer:     none
Status:     INVALID chain

## ABUSE-REPORT HISTORY (evidence of registrar non-response)
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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
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Domain registered: 2025-03-30 (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:    2025-09-23 13:01:20 UTC (abuse notice filed)
Last verified:     2026-04-13 07:52:57 UTC
Neutralised:       2026-02-23 03:15:03 UTC
Current status:    taken down (registrar suspended or DNS dead)

## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence)
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URLScan.io:       https://urlscan.io/result/019976a9-83ab-77c4-87bc-6dc13e2ea873/
Wayback Machine:  https://web.archive.org/web/*/accounts.holtwealthfinance.com
crt.sh CT logs:   https://crt.sh/?q=%25.accounts.holtwealthfinance.com
Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=accounts.holtwealthfinance.com
AlienVault OTX:   https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/accounts.holtwealthfinance.com
URLhaus:          https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/accounts.holtwealthfinance.com/

## ANALYST NARRATIVE
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[Generated: 2026-03-03 02:29:18 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.]

PhishDestroy has identified accounts.holtwealthfinance.com as a medium-risk credential phishing domain attempting to deceive users into divulging sensitive login information. This site posed as a legitimate Holtwealthfinance portal, using a misleading page title "Welcome to | Holtwealthfinance" to lure victims. Credential phishing attacks like this aim to capture usernames and passwords to facilitate unauthorized account access and potential financial fraud.

The malicious domain was registered recently on March 30, 2025, through Atak Domain and resolved to IP address 198.23.141.202. It was flagged by 3 out of 95 security engines on VirusTotal and appeared on at least one security blocklist. Although currently taken offline, the domain infrastructure and registration details underscore the ongoing tactics used by threat actors to mimic trusted financial services for phishing campaigns.

Users are advised to remain vigilant when accessing financial accounts online by verifying domain names carefully and avoiding links from unsolicited emails or messages. Always navigate directly to official websites rather than clicking embedded links. Reporting suspicious domains or activity to cybersecurity platforms like PhishDestroy can help protect others from falling victim to similar scams.

## EVIDENCE HASHES
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Favicon SHA-256:       4197a3dc0222c881cfa3fe8ce6ff444d4dac79880c390bc1f761d56c712db70d

## SCORING METHODOLOGY
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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
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Full HTML report:  https://phishdestroy.io/domain/accounts.holtwealthfinance.com/
JSON API:          https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=accounts.holtwealthfinance.com
Appeal a flag:     https://phishdestroy.io/appeals/  (responded to within 48 hours, FP rate <0.01%)
Submit a report:   https://t.me/PhishDestroy_bot

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