# PhishDestroy threat dossier — christmas-higher.com
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Fetched:   2026-06-27 18:33:45 UTC
Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/christmas-higher.com/

## VERDICT
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TAKEN DOWN (neutralised)
Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below)
Scam classification: cryptocurrency
Phishing kit: Airdrop Scam
Wallet drainer: Angel Drainer

## DETECTION EVIDENCE
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VirusTotal:      3/93 security vendors flagged this domain
  Flagging vendors: Fortinet, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar
Public blocklists: listed on 4 independent blocklists
Victim re-reports (public form): 1

## INFRASTRUCTURE
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IP address:      188.114.97.3 (US, San Francisco)
ASN:             ASAS13335 CLOUDFLARENET, US
Hosting org:     AS13335 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:     elias.ns.cloudflare.com, olivia.ns.cloudflare.com
Registered:      2025-12-25
Expires:         2026-12-25
Page title:      HIGHER - Christmas Airdrop

## TLS CERTIFICATE
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Issuer:     none
Status:     INVALID chain

## 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: 2025-12-25 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration)
First detected:    2026-02-25 02:39:27 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker)
First reported:    2026-01-02 13:20:21 UTC (abuse notice filed)
Last verified:     2026-06-27 20:20:35 UTC
Neutralised:       2026-02-23 03:15:03 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/019b7edd-109b-7349-b001-deea259b99e9/
Wayback Machine:  https://web.archive.org/web/*/christmas-higher.com
crt.sh CT logs:   https://crt.sh/?q=%25.christmas-higher.com
Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=christmas-higher.com
AlienVault OTX:   https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/christmas-higher.com
URLhaus:          https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/christmas-higher.com/

## ANALYST NARRATIVE
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[Generated: 2026-06-24 03:07:35 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.]

The domain christmas-higher.com, now taken down, was an Airdrop Scam operation that utilized the Angel Drainer.

Three out of 95 security vendors, including Fortinet, Gridinsoft, and SOCRadar, flagged this domain as malicious. It appeared on 4 public blocklists, though Google Safe Browsing did not flag it.

Registered on 2025-12-25 with NiceNIC International Group Co., Limited (HK), the domain resolved to 188.114.97.3 and was first seen on 2026-01-02.

Given its past use in an Angel Drainer campaign, block 188.114.97.3 as an indicator of compromise.

## EVIDENCE HASHES
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Favicon SHA-256:       fa1a8566f98314bd562555ff95a549845e4a14c98f9af8654c8abf873c75192d

## 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/christmas-higher.com/
JSON API:          https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=christmas-higher.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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