# PhishDestroy threat dossier — cerowex.com ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-14 12:45:53 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/cerowex.com/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT Composite threat score: 97/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 1/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: SOCRadar URLQuery: 2 detections AlienVault OTX: 1 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions) Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 188.114.96.3 (US, San Francisco) ASN: AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. Hosting org: AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. 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: boyd.ns.cloudflare.com, josephine.ns.cloudflare.com Registered: 2026-07-05 Expires: 2027-07-05 Page title: Cerowex — Online Games & Rewards HTTP response: 200 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Google Trust Services / WE1 Expires: 2026-10-03 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: 00b06cde97a6b3fe357d7933eee6eab908461a203e431f47591abce6c0045ece ## ABUSE-REPORT HISTORY (evidence of registrar non-response) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Status: pending notification queue. No abuse reports filed yet — this domain is waiting for the next cycle of our automated abuse-reporter. ## TIMELINE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Domain registered: 2026-07-05 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-10 12:18:33 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) First reported: 2026-07-12 17:49:35 UTC (abuse notice filed) Last verified: 2026-07-14 14:16:40 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019f4b88-56e5-719b-857d-b1f790623365/ URLQuery: https://urlquery.net/report/5053ec1d-12b0-48ff-af4e-b75a7594f465 Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/cerowex.com crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.cerowex.com Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=cerowex.com AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/cerowex.com URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/cerowex.com/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-10 12:25:54 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] This domain, cerowex.com, operates as a fake rewards portal designed to deceive users into engaging with fraudulent online games and reward schemes. Analysis indicates the site mimics legitimate gaming platforms to harvest personal information, credentials, or financial details under the guise of offering prizes or in-game benefits. The threat type aligns with generic phishing but exhibits characteristics of a broader social engineering campaign targeting users seeking entertainment or monetary incentives. Infrastructure analysis reveals several critical indicators. The domain was registered on July 05, 2026, through Fewmoretaps OU d/b/a Trustname.com, a registrar with a history of hosting suspicious domains. Despite its recent creation, the domain resolves to the IP address 188.114.96.3 and is associated with an SSL certificate issued by Google Trust Services, lending a false sense of legitimacy. Security telemetry shows the domain appears on one blocklist and was flagged in a single AlienVault OTX threat intelligence pulse. Notably, VirusTotal reports 0 out of 95 security vendors detecting malicious activity, suggesting the campaign may still be evading automated detection mechanisms. Users who have interacted with cerowex.com should take immediate remedial actions. Those who entered credentials or personal information should assume compromise and reset passwords across all accounts where identical or similar credentials were used. Financial details, if shared, warrant monitoring for unauthorized transactions and potential identity theft. Devices used to access the site should undergo a full security scan to detect any installed malware or persistent threats. Given the domain's active status and lack of widespread detection, users are advised to exercise heightened caution with similar gaming or rewards-themed websites, particularly those with recent registration dates or unfamiliar infrastructure. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- PhishDestroy Case ID: PD-20260712-AC1284 Favicon MD5: 80d4744555e10615fd0705451496696b TLS cert SHA-256: 00b06cde97a6b3fe357d7933eee6eab908461a203e431f47591abce6c0045ece ## 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/cerowex.com/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=cerowex.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: 178,560 domains (50,199 alive under monitoring, 128,361 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io