# PhishDestroy threat dossier — bytedance-europe.com ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-04 10:02:39 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/bytedance-europe.com/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- TAKEN DOWN (neutralised) Composite threat score: 64/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) Scam classification: Impersonation ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 4/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, Fortinet, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar AlienVault OTX: 1 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions) Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 130.44.215.205 (LU, Luxembourg) ASN: ASAS396986 BYTEDANCE - Bytedance Inc., US Hosting org: AS205759 Ghosty Networks LLC 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: ns1.bytedance-europe.com, ns1.starknode.com, ns2.bytedance-europe.com, ns2.starknode.com Registered: 2026-06-26 Expires: 2027-06-26 Page title: ByteDance SSO HTTP response: 200 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Plesk / Plesk Expires: 2026-10-20 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: 75a1927e8e975d01e06c3b2e9164ae8c22c4121a306a145e8b665a679b0ccea1 ## 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: 2026-06-26 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-01 05:55:09 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) Last verified: 2026-07-04 08:20:35 UTC Neutralised: 2026-07-01 12:02:52 UTC Current status: taken down (registrar suspended or DNS dead) ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019f1bcf-3b18-736e-8dbb-ea819f86e2d2/ Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/bytedance-europe.com crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.bytedance-europe.com Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=bytedance-europe.com AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/bytedance-europe.com URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/bytedance-europe.com/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-01 06:00:20 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] This domain, bytedance-europe.com, is flagged for fake brand impersonation targeting ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok and other platforms. Analysis indicates the site employs a redirection mechanism, as evidenced by the page title 'Redirection...', suggesting an attempt to mislead victims into believing they are interacting with legitimate ByteDance European operations. No specific drainer kit or credential-harvesting payload has been identified yet, but the infrastructure aligns with common phishing tactics used to distribute malicious links or collect sensitive information under false pretenses. Infrastructure analysis reveals the following technical indicators: the domain was registered on June 26, 2026, through NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED, a registrar frequently associated with high-risk domains. It resolves to the IP address 64.89.161.63, which has not been widely flagged in threat intelligence feeds. VirusTotal reports 0 detections out of 95 security engines, indicating the domain has not yet been broadly recognized as malicious. Google Safe Browsing (GSB) status is currently unknown, and no blocklist entries have been recorded at the time of this assessment. The domain remains active and continues to resolve, posing an ongoing risk to users who may be deceived by its branding. Response actions should include monitoring for changes in behavior, such as the introduction of credential harvesting forms or malicious payloads. Organizations are advised to block the domain at the network level and alert employees to the impersonation risk. Given the lack of detections, this domain may evade automated defenses, necessitating manual review and proactive threat hunting to mitigate potential exposure. [Updates since narrative was generated:] - Public blocklists: now listed on 1 feed ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- Favicon MD5: c3e4b0077dbea369f0cf614e45e3ec8e TLS cert SHA-256: 75a1927e8e975d01e06c3b2e9164ae8c22c4121a306a145e8b665a679b0ccea1 ## 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/bytedance-europe.com/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=bytedance-europe.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: independent open-source threat-intelligence platform. Tracked: 174,430 domains (12,711 alive under monitoring, 160,898 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io