auction-direct.com
“Attention Required! | Cloudflare”
Evidence Summary
PhishDestroy first observed auction-direct.com on Sep 5, 2026. The captured page title is “Attention Required! | Cloudflare”. Campaign clustering links the hostname to the Unknown kit. Current evidence score: 81/100 (critical).
One source contains a positive finding: VirusTotal. VirusTotal recorded 3 detections among 89 engines: CRDF, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, SOCRadar on Sep 19, 2026 at 02:21 UTC. Non-positive and contextual checks: AlienVault OTX listed 12 community pulse references (not vendor detections) on Sep 17, 2026 at 03:49 UTC. The separate external-blocklist snapshot contained no matches on Sep 21, 2026 at 06:20 UTC. Google Safe Browsing returned no flag on Sep 18, 2026 at 04:02 UTC. URLScan completed without a malicious verdict (score 0) on Sep 19, 2026 at 03:30 UTC.
An access-restricted HTTP 403 response was recorded on Sep 21, 2026 at 01:41 UTC. Registration records for the domain list Name.com, Inc. as the registrar and Jun 29, 2026 as the creation date. At collection time, the hostname resolved to 104.21.75.50 on AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc.). The IP and ASN identify shared Cloudflare edge infrastructure; the origin server is not established by this address. DOM analysis on Sep 17, 2026 at 02:20 UTC returned 81/100. The evidence archive retains 1 visual capture from PhishDestroy. TLS metadata lists Google Trust Services / WE1 as the certificate issuer with validity through Oct 22, 2026; checked Sep 15, 2026 at 04:02 UTC.
Stored content provides classification context, but only one source contains a positive finding. The stored fields do not identify an impersonated brand or victim interaction.
Forensic History & Detection Timeline
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VirusTotal Detections Update Sep 16, 2026 · 22:31 UTCVirusTotal scanner detections updated from 2 to 3. Added scanner alerts: CRDF.
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Threat First Observed Sep 15, 2026 · 05:53 UTCDomain ingestion complete. Initial state is marked as alive.
Threat Response Pipeline
Public Blocklist Status
Evasion analysis
Cloaking & traffic-distribution check
Stored crawler-versus-browser observations for this host, plus a live fingerprint check for Keitaro-style traffic distribution systems.
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- Server header seen by scanner
cloudflare
Scanner note: cloudflare_challenge: raw=cf_challenge; http=403; via=https_proxy; server=cloudflare
Technologies · 9 identified
VirusTotal Analysis
Site Performance Analysis
Google PageSpeed Insights — mobile performance audit of auction-direct.com · checked Sep 15, 2026
Lookalike domains
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Community intelligence
7 community reports
CategoryPHISHING
Hi, auction-direct[.]com is a fake vehicle auction and it is collecting bank wires right now. Please suspend it. Reported domain: auction-direct[.]com Reported URL: hxxps://auction-direct[.]com/ Claimed operator: "Auction Direct Autos LLC", 13206 Summer Rain Drive, Orlando, FL
Evidence & External Reports
“Hi, auction-direct[.]com is a fake vehicle auction and it is collecting bank wires right now. Please suspend it. Reported domain: auction-direct[.]com Reported URL: hxxps://auction-direct[.]com/ Claimed operator: "Auction Direct Autos LLC", 13206 Summer Rain Drive, Orlando, FL 32828 Observed live: 2026-09-03 Money-and-run is a US vehicle-purchase fraud pattern tracked by the FBI IC3: a polished auction storefront, deposits taken by wire, then an overnight exit with nothing shipped. This domai”
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