# PhishDestroy threat dossier — balancer-chainlink.com
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Fetched:   2026-07-22 11:01:25 UTC
Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/balancer-chainlink.com/

## VERDICT
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CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT
Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below)
Scam classification: Impersonation
Targeted brand: Balancer

## DETECTION EVIDENCE
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VirusTotal:      9/91 security vendors flagged this domain
  Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Emsisoft, Fortinet, G-Data, Gridinsoft, Netcraft, SOCRadar, Sophos
AlienVault OTX:  2 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions)
Public blocklists: listed on 3 independent blocklists

## INFRASTRUCTURE
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IP address:      188.114.97.3 (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:     ["johnny.ns.cloudflare.com", "leah.ns.cloudflare.com"]
Page title:      balancer-chainlink.com | 521: Web server is down
HTTP response:   521

## TLS CERTIFICATE
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Issuer:     Google Trust Services / WE1
Expires:    2026-09-17
Status:     INVALID chain
Fingerprint: f5df3be6e51d814502be7cc4661228b5a5fa77d4a4144d62eafb7a8da3641369

## ABUSE-REPORT HISTORY (evidence of registrar non-response)
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Status: pending notification queue. No abuse reports filed yet — this domain is
waiting for the next cycle of our automated abuse-reporter.

## TIMELINE
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First detected:    2026-07-19 12:38:19 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker)
Last verified:     2026-07-22 12:22:40 UTC
Current status:    ACTIVE / observable

## ANALYST NARRATIVE
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[Generated: 2026-07-20 00:27:59 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.]

balancer-chainlink.com Safety Check — Brand Impersonation

The domain balancer-chainlink.com is currently flagged as an active brand‑impersonation campaign targeting Balancer. Infrastructure analysis shows the domain is hosted behind Cloudflare (IP 188.114.97.3, located in Canada) and uses the nameservers johnny.ns.cloudflare.com and leah.ns.cloudflare.com. Registration was completed through NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED, and the site presents a Google Trust Services / WE1 SSL certificate, indicating a legitimate‑looking HTTPS endpoint despite the underlying malicious intent. Threat intelligence sources list the domain in two AlienVault OTX pulses and three public blocklists, and it is actively blocked by PhishDestroy, MetaMask, and SEAL. VirusTotal scans have resulted in nine of ninety‑one security vendors flagging the domain. The HTTP response returns a 521 status (“Web server is down”), which is a common tactic to hide content until a victim interacts with a lure. Defenders should continue to block the domain at perimeter and DNS layers, monitor for any new resolution changes, and enforce email and web filtering rules that reference the listed blocklists. Because the site’s content has not been publicly captured, the exact phishing page layout remains unknown; analysts should treat any communications referencing Balancer or Chainlink as potentially malicious until verified.

## EVIDENCE HASHES
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TLS cert SHA-256:      f5df3be6e51d814502be7cc4661228b5a5fa77d4a4144d62eafb7a8da3641369

## 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 (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
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Full HTML report:  https://phishdestroy.io/domain/balancer-chainlink.com/
JSON API:          https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=balancer-chainlink.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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