# PhishDestroy threat dossier — crosswords-today.com ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-29 20:58:48 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/crosswords-today.com/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT Composite threat score: 85/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 4/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 104.21.90.167 (US, San Francisco) ASN: ASAS13335 CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US Hosting org: AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. Registrar: Spaceship, Inc. Nameservers: james.ns.cloudflare.com, magdalena.ns.cloudflare.com Registered: 2026-06-12 Expires: 2027-06-12 Page title: Crosswords Today | Crossword Answers, Clues & Word Puzzle HTTP response: 200 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Google Trust Services / WE1 Expires: 2026-09-10 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: ba6f4f7f5f4fad4b75930a42cff3807ec79e15d467777ed2b3f30f550be49dac ## 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: 2026-06-12 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-22 20:25:04 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) First reported: 2026-07-22 18:30:42 UTC (abuse notice filed) Last verified: 2026-07-29 20:03:52 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019f8b12-2eb2-73ac-9df3-99409f15811e/ URLQuery: https://urlquery.net/report/316c89d3-ee4e-4f71-936e-38e8828cb179 Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/crosswords-today.com crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.crosswords-today.com Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=crosswords-today.com AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/crosswords-today.com URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/crosswords-today.com/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-22 20:25:45 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] crosswords-today.com — Generic Phishing Campaign Report The domain crosswords-today.com was registered on June 12, 2026 through Spaceship, Inc. and is currently resolved to the IP address 104.21.90.167. The authoritative nameservers are james.ns.cloudflare.com and magdalena.ns.cloudflare.com, indicating use of Cloudflare's DNS services. The domain is listed on a single security blocklist and has been explicitly blocked by the PhishDestroy service, confirming that it is being monitored by at least one anti‑phishing platform. VirusTotal records show that the domain has been scanned by 95 independent scanning engines, none of which have returned a detection at the time of analysis; while this absence of detections does not guarantee safety, it reflects the current lack of identified malicious payloads on the inspected samples. The domain’s status is reported as active, and no additional intelligence such as SSL certificate details, HTTP response codes, Safe Browsing verdicts, or page title content is presently available. Consequently, the primary indicators of compromise are limited to the registration metadata, the hosting IP, the Cloudflare nameservers, and the presence on a blocklist. Defenders should continue to monitor crosswords-today.com for any changes in detection status, update local blocklists to include the domain, and consider applying network‑level filtering to prevent outbound connections to the associated IP address. Further investigation, such as active probing of the web service and retrieval of page content, is recommended to determine whether the site is delivering credential‑stealing pages or other phishing artifacts. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- PhishDestroy Case ID: PD-20260722-8670A2 Favicon MD5: 000bf649cc8f6bf27cfb04d1bcdcd3c7 TLS cert SHA-256: ba6f4f7f5f4fad4b75930a42cff3807ec79e15d467777ed2b3f30f550be49dac ## 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-today.com/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=crosswords-today.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: 195,508 domains (83,275 alive under monitoring, 109,716 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io