# PhishDestroy threat dossier — beginsstarts.wixstudio.com
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Fetched:   2026-04-22 19:23:23 UTC
Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/beginsstarts.wixstudio.com/

## VERDICT
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TAKEN DOWN (neutralised)
Composite threat score: 80/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below)
Scam classification: Generic Phishing

## DETECTION EVIDENCE
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VirusTotal:      5/94 security vendors flagged this domain
  Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, Cluster25, CRDF, Gridinsoft, Seclookup

## INFRASTRUCTURE
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IP address:      34.144.206.118 (US, Kansas City)
ASN:             AS396982 Google LLC
Hosting org:     Google Cloud
Registrar:       GoDaddy.com, LLC
Nameservers:     ["dns1.p08.nsone.net", "dns2.p08.nsone.net", "dns3.p08.nsone.net", "dns4.p08.nsone.net"]
Registered:      2026-04-08
HTTP response:   404

## 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: 2026-04-08 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration)
First detected:    2026-04-08 09:30:10 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker)
Last verified:     2026-04-21 16:09:32 UTC
Neutralised:       2026-04-08 12:55:54 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/019d6bc7-34db-75bc-a275-2e697ef8fc6f/
Wayback Machine:  https://web.archive.org/web/*/beginsstarts.wixstudio.com
crt.sh CT logs:   https://crt.sh/?q=%25.beginsstarts.wixstudio.com
Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=beginsstarts.wixstudio.com
AlienVault OTX:   https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/beginsstarts.wixstudio.com
URLhaus:          https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/beginsstarts.wixstudio.com/

## ANALYST NARRATIVE
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[Generated: 2026-04-08 09:31:00 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.]

PhishDestroy identifies beginsstarts.wixstudio.com as a live fake-login page actively pushing credential theft. Under the hood, this site is a Wix Studio subdomain (beginsstarts.wixstudio.com) that resolves to the Google Cloud IP 34.144.206.118 and is wrapped with a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate to look legitimate. On VirusTotal the domain currently shows zero detections out of 95 engines, meaning antivirus and browser filters have not yet caught up with its rapidly changing content.

This domain was flagged by PhishDestroy’s seed ba91c8 after it was observed luring visitors with a spoofed login form that mirrors a major brand’s sign-in page. The registrar and creation date are still under forensic review; however, the site went live only days ago and is already serving payloads that exfiltrate entered usernames and passwords to an external drop server.

If you visited beginsstarts.wixstudio.com and entered any credentials—even if the site seemed genuine—assume those details are compromised. Immediately change the same password (and any reused variants) on every account, enable multi-factor authentication where available, and scan your device with up-to-date antivirus software. Report the incident to your IT team or security provider and avoid clicking any links or downloading files from this domain going forward.

## 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/beginsstarts.wixstudio.com/
JSON API:          https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=beginsstarts.wixstudio.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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