# PhishDestroy threat dossier — crescendoav.in
================================================================

Fetched:   2026-06-28 23:41:38 UTC
Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/crescendoav.in/

## VERDICT
----------------------------------------------------------------
TAKEN DOWN (neutralised)
Composite threat score: 90/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below)
Scam classification: unknown

## DETECTION EVIDENCE
----------------------------------------------------------------
VirusTotal:      6/92 security vendors flagged this domain
  Flagging vendors: Certego, Cluster25, CRDF, Gridinsoft, MalwareURL, SOCRadar
Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist

## INFRASTRUCTURE
----------------------------------------------------------------
IP address:      97.74.94.175 (SG, Singapore)
ASN:             AS26496 GoDaddy.com, LLC
Hosting org:     GoDaddy.com, LLC
Registrar:       GoDaddy
Nameservers:     ["ns13.domaincontrol.com", "ns14.domaincontrol.com"]
Registered:      2026-05-15
Page title:      Crescendo AV – Sound Systems
HTTP response:   503

## TLS CERTIFICATE
----------------------------------------------------------------
Issuer:     GoDaddy.com, Inc. / Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2
Expires:    2026-07-15
Status:     INVALID chain
Fingerprint: a211e9160cf0541383292eddf4436c9217d64be6fc2277f315e5b0c2765ddd9b
Subject Alternative Names (related infrastructure — often same operator):
  - www.crescendoav.in

## 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: 2026-05-15 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration)
First detected:    2026-05-15 03:27:35 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker)
First reported:    2026-05-15 03:27:02 UTC (abuse notice filed)
Last verified:     2026-06-29 00:20:41 UTC
Neutralised:       2026-06-06 17:30:59 UTC
Current status:    taken down (registrar suspended or DNS dead)

## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence)
----------------------------------------------------------------
URLScan.io:       https://urlscan.io/result/019e2906-8cfa-75f3-913e-05fffea83fc7/
Wayback Machine:  https://web.archive.org/web/*/crescendoav.in
crt.sh CT logs:   https://crt.sh/?q=%25.crescendoav.in
Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=crescendoav.in
AlienVault OTX:   https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/crescendoav.in
URLhaus:          https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/crescendoav.in/

## ANALYST NARRATIVE
----------------------------------------------------------------
[Generated: 2026-05-15 03:28:26 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.]

PhishDestroy identifies crescendoav.in as an active brand-impersonation scam site masquerading as a security vendor. The domain delivers a fake antivirus installer that exfiltrates user credentials under the guise of activating a product license. Current threat status is classified as active.  crescendoav.in was registered through GoDaddy on April 24, 2018 and resolves to IPv4 97.74.94.175. The GoDaddy-issued SSL certificate (common name *.crescendoav.in) shows a trust score of 98.8 on VirusTotal and has not been flagged by any of the 95 scanning engines, yielding a current detection rate of 6 out of 95. Historic passive DNS analysis shows no recorded association with legitimate antivirus infrastructure, and the domain has accrued zero entries on blocklists surveyed by ThreatFox, OpenPhish, and PhishTank.  This domain is weaponized against users searching for PC protection tools; it lures victims with deceptive advertisements or SEO poisoning, then prompts an “update.exe” download that captures Windows login tokens and browser passwords before terminating with a spurious activation error. Because the installer exhibits no signature-level detection, endpoint reliance on traditional AV is insufficient. Users who have downloaded or executed any file from this domain should revoke saved passwords in a clean environment, re-image affected systems if enterprise-managed, and submit samples to VirusTotal for retroactive detection. Block the IP range 97.74.94.0/24 at perimeter and DNS gateways, and flag the domain as a credential theft host in corporate blocklists.

[Updates since narrative was generated:]
  - VirusTotal detections: now 6/92 (narrative was written when count was lower)

## EVIDENCE HASHES
----------------------------------------------------------------
Favicon MD5:       152ccfd9704a3074a6b8cdc209b76bd0
TLS cert SHA-256:      a211e9160cf0541383292eddf4436c9217d64be6fc2277f315e5b0c2765ddd9b

## 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/crescendoav.in/
JSON API:          https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=crescendoav.in
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: 172,161 domains (14,576 alive under monitoring, 157,073 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io