# PhishDestroy threat dossier — aroundtheworld.social ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-16 22:29:06 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/aroundtheworld.social/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT Composite threat score: 97/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 1/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: Fortinet AlienVault OTX: 1 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions) Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 104.21.26.106 (US, San Francisco) ASN: AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. Hosting org: AS13335 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: celeste.ns.cloudflare.com, henry.ns.cloudflare.com Registered: 2026-07-07 Expires: 2027-07-07 Page title: Just a moment... HTTP response: 403 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Google Trust Services / WE1 Expires: 2026-10-05 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: 6dd26d0c5634c53fdadef44873d37f5a776c51c10c34944295e2c9ae96bbdda8 ## 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: 2026-07-07 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-10 12:00:06 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) Last verified: 2026-07-17 00:20:45 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019f4b77-39eb-774c-b54b-aa071901934f/ Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/aroundtheworld.social crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.aroundtheworld.social Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=aroundtheworld.social AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/aroundtheworld.social URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/aroundtheworld.social/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-13 00:16:02 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] The domain aroundtheworld.social was registered on July 7, 2026 and is currently active. DNS resolution points to IP 104.21.26.106, hosted behind Cloudflare (AS13335) with HTTP/3 enabled and a Google Trust Services / WE1 TLS certificate. The authoritative name servers are celeste.ns.cloudflare.com and henry.ns.cloudflare.com. An HTTP request returns a 403 status and the page title is "Just a moment..."; no further page content has been disclosed. Threat intelligence indicates the site is listed on one blocklist and has been flagged by PhishDestroy. Reputation scoring from Gridinsoft is 0/100, and VirusTotal reports a single positive detection out of 91 scanners. AlienVault OTX references the domain in one pulse. The limited visible indicators suggest the domain is being used for a generic phishing campaign, but the specific target brand or credential‑stealing mechanism has not been observed. Defenders should add the domain and its associated IP to deny‑list rules, monitor for DNS queries or outbound connections to the IP, and update web‑filter signatures to capture the 403 response pattern. Ongoing analysis of any retrieved payloads or redirects is recommended to confirm the full attack vector. [Updates since narrative was generated:] - VirusTotal detections: now 1/91 (narrative was written when count was lower) ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- Favicon MD5: c2c2486c05b689c98e176618fb0b0ed9 TLS cert SHA-256: 6dd26d0c5634c53fdadef44873d37f5a776c51c10c34944295e2c9ae96bbdda8 ## 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/aroundtheworld.social/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=aroundtheworld.social 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: 179,546 domains (51,011 alive under monitoring, 128,535 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io