# PhishDestroy threat dossier — approvals-ostium.com ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-31 14:19:13 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/approvals-ostium.com/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT Composite threat score: 98/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 5/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Fortinet, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 188.114.96.3 (CA, Toronto) ASN: AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. Hosting org: CloudFlare, Inc. Registrar: NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED !!! REGISTRAR INTEGRITY ALERT — NiceNIC !!! NiceNIC International: over 90% of its registered domains are associated with illegal content; documented systematic abuse-report non-response. Primary sources: https://phishdestroy.io/nicenic-real https://phishdestroy.io/nicenic-verdict Nameservers: kip.ns.cloudflare.com, meera.ns.cloudflare.com Registered: 2026-07-16 Expires: 2027-07-16 HTTP response: 403 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Google Trust Services / WE1 Expires: 2026-10-14 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: acb7ed76f0e24cb3bb0faa6991a64044d26001b6f8d5dda8630e86db93310cee ## ABUSE-REPORT HISTORY (evidence of registrar non-response) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Status: pending notification queue. No abuse reports filed yet — this domain is waiting for the next cycle of our automated abuse-reporter. ## TIMELINE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Domain registered: 2026-07-16 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-20 18:18:49 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) Last verified: 2026-07-31 12:40:04 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019f8051-f2be-716d-a56e-528cd2b9f13b/ Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/approvals-ostium.com crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.approvals-ostium.com Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=approvals-ostium.com AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/approvals-ostium.com URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/approvals-ostium.com/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-20 18:19:33 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] approvals-ostium.com: Confirmed Phishing Site The domain approvals-ostium.com was registered on July 16, 2026 through NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED and is currently resolved to the IP address 188.114.96.3. The authoritative nameservers are kip.ns.cloudflare.com and meera.ns.cloudflare.com, indicating that the infrastructure is hosted on Cloudflare’s DNS platform. The domain has been actively blocked by the PhishDestroy sinkhole, and it appears on a single external security blocklist, confirming that at least one independent threat intelligence source has identified it as malicious. VirusTotal analysis shows that 1 out of 95 scanned security vendors flagged the domain, providing a minimal but concrete detection signal. The site remains live as of the report date, July 20, 2026, and no public takedown has been recorded. Analysis indicates that the domain is being used for a generic phishing campaign, although the specific lure or targeted brand has not been disclosed in the available intelligence. No page title, SSL certificate details, HTTP status code, or Safe Browsing verdict have been published, leaving the exact user‑facing content unknown. The limited detection footprint—single blocklist entry and one vendor flag—suggests a possibly early‑stage operation, but the presence of a Cloudflare‑based DNS configuration and a recent creation date point to a deliberately provisioned malicious infrastructure. Defenders should add approvals-ostium.com to inbound and outbound filtering policies, block the associated IP address 188.114.96.3, and monitor DNS queries to the listed Cloudflare nameservers for any anomalous resolution patterns. Continuous re‑scanning on VirusTotal and inclusion in endpoint threat feeds are recommended to capture any escalation in detection scores. Organizations should also consider sharing any observed traffic or payloads with threat‑sharing communities to improve collective visibility of this emerging phishing vector. [Updates since narrative was generated:] - WHOIS creation date: 2026-07-16 ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- TLS cert SHA-256: acb7ed76f0e24cb3bb0faa6991a64044d26001b6f8d5dda8630e86db93310cee ## 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 (operator 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/approvals-ostium.com/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=approvals-ostium.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 About PhishDestroy: independent open-source threat-intelligence platform. Tracked: 196,381 domains (84,101 alive under monitoring, 27,268 confirmed neutralized). Site: https://phishdestroy.io