# PhishDestroy threat dossier — crosswords-hub.com ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-28 23:55:06 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/crosswords-hub.com/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT Composite threat score: 84/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 3/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 188.114.96.3 (CA, Toronto) ASN: AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. Hosting org: CloudFlare, Inc. Registrar: Spaceship, Inc. Nameservers: james.ns.cloudflare.com, magdalena.ns.cloudflare.com Registered: 2026-06-09 Expires: 2027-06-09 Page title: Crosswords-Hub | Crossword Answers & Printable Puzzles HTTP response: 200 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Google Trust Services / WE1 Expires: 2026-09-07 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: 82d7f48a811b45508f4c18596e8e16be964b74221e45de49133b56cd3e353aed ## 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: 2026-06-09 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-22 20:15:24 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) First reported: 2026-07-22 18:16:58 UTC (abuse notice filed) Last verified: 2026-07-29 01:54:45 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019f8b09-54b7-713f-9369-4a6227a398a2/ URLQuery: https://urlquery.net/report/24cd018e-17a4-43be-afd6-d45a42a713df Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/crosswords-hub.com crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.crosswords-hub.com Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=crosswords-hub.com AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/crosswords-hub.com URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/crosswords-hub.com/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-22 20:16:15 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] Is crosswords-hub.com a phishing site? Analysis of crosswords-hub.com was performed on 22 July 2026 following its identification as a generic phishing infrastructure. The domain resolves to the IPv4 address 188.114.96.3 and is served through Cloudflare DNS with authoritative name servers james.ns.cloudflare.com and magdalena.ns.cloudflare.com. Registration data indicate that the domain was created on 9 June 2026 and was registered through Spaceship, Inc., suggesting a recent provisioning timeline. The domain appears on a single security blocklist and is explicitly blocked by the PhishDestroy filtering service, confirming that at least one threat‑intelligence feed has flagged it. VirusTotal reports show that the domain has been examined by 95 independent scanning engines, none of which have returned a detection at the time of analysis; however, the absence of detections does not constitute evidence of benign behavior. No additional information regarding SSL certificate details, HTTP response codes, Safe Browsing status, or page title is available from the provided intelligence. Consequently, the current confidence in the domain’s malicious intent relies on its recent creation, presence on a blocklist, and association with a known phishing classification. Defenders should continue to block crosswords-hub.com at network perimeter and DNS layers, monitor outbound connections to 188.114.96.3, and consider adding the domain to local blocklists. Ongoing surveillance is recommended to capture any future changes in detection status or hosting characteristics. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- PhishDestroy Case ID: PD-20260722-E34550 Favicon MD5: 000bf649cc8f6bf27cfb04d1bcdcd3c7 TLS cert SHA-256: 82d7f48a811b45508f4c18596e8e16be964b74221e45de49133b56cd3e353aed ## 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/crosswords-hub.com/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=crosswords-hub.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: 208,142 domains (83,075 alive under monitoring, 124,036 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io