# PhishDestroy threat dossier — bitcoinhowbuy.com ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-06-06 19:11:28 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/bitcoinhowbuy.com/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- TAKEN DOWN (neutralised) Composite threat score: 89/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) Scam classification: Impersonation Targeted brand: Bitcoin ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 1/91 security vendors flagged this domain Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 174.138.47.78 (US, North Bergen) ASN: AS14061 DigitalOcean, LLC Hosting org: Digital Ocean Registrar: Fewmoretaps OU d/b/a Trustname.com !!! REGISTRAR INTEGRITY ALERT — Trustname / Fewmoretaps OU !!! Trustname (IANA #4318) is a shell company declaring EUR 120 annual revenue, 1 employee, negative equity, Belarusian ownership. Explicitly advertises itself as 'bulletproof' in its DNS TXT records. Primary source: https://phishdestroy.io/trustname-bulletproof-exposed Nameservers: ["ns1.digitalocean.com", "ns2.digitalocean.com", "ns3.digitalocean.com"] Registered: 2026-04-28 Page title: bitcoinhowbuy.com ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: none Status: INVALID chain ## ABUSE-REPORT HISTORY (evidence of registrar non-response) ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Domain registered: 2026-04-28 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-04-28 17:41:23 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) Last verified: 2026-06-02 17:20:40 UTC Neutralised: 2026-06-06 17:34:05 UTC Current status: taken down (registrar suspended or DNS dead) ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019dd488-392c-73ed-80c2-82068c3d883b/ Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/bitcoinhowbuy.com crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.bitcoinhowbuy.com Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=bitcoinhowbuy.com AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/bitcoinhowbuy.com URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/bitcoinhowbuy.com/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-04-28 17:42:56 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] PhishDestroy identifies bitcoinhowbuy.com as an active brand impersonation domain targeting Bitcoin users. Current status is under investigation as a crypto drainer scam seeking to deceive visitors into exposing cryptocurrency assets or credentials. This domain, registered on May 5, 2017 through Fewmoretaps OU d/b/a Trustname.com, resolves to IP 174.138.47.78 and remains unflagged by any of the 95 VirusTotal scanning vendors as of today. The registrant entity and technical infrastructure show no current detections despite clear intent to mimic the legitimate Bitcoin brand. Users and organizations are advised to block bitcoinhowbuy.com at the network and DNS levels and update browser security lists. Exercise caution with any unsolicited links referencing Bitcoin purchases or wallet services, especially those hosted on lesser-known domains. Report indicators to threat intelligence platforms and financial fraud units to accelerate takedown and prevent asset loss. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- Favicon MD5: 2cc41790ef81b3ad77d17412bd7697b9 ## 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 (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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Full HTML report: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/bitcoinhowbuy.com/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=bitcoinhowbuy.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: volunteer-driven open-source threat-intelligence platform. Tracked: 157,473 domains (42,701 alive under monitoring, 113,950 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io