# PhishDestroy threat dossier — crypto-verify.net ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-06 02:22:16 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/crypto-verify.net/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) Scam classification: Credential Phishing Targeted brand: Crypto.com ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 2/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, Fortinet Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 178.16.54.253 (NL, Amsterdam) ASN: ASAS202412 OMEGATECH-AS Omegatech LTD, SC Hosting org: AS202412 Omegatech LTD 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: ns1.virtualine.org, ns2.virtualine.org Registered: 2026-07-01 Expires: 2027-07-01 Page title: Secure Your Account - Crypto.com HTTP response: 200 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Let's Encrypt / YR1 Expires: 2026-09-29 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: 997b1a6a14e08e13a650d78c389560acf33be6601208d0417d235589c205047a ## 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: 2026-07-01 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-05 05:48:57 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) Last verified: 2026-07-06 04:20:35 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019f3063-dd84-7708-a904-c386aeaeb7f4/ Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/crypto-verify.net crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.crypto-verify.net Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=crypto-verify.net AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/crypto-verify.net URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/crypto-verify.net/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-05 05:55:47 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] This domain is flagged as an active high-risk brand impersonation threat specifically targeting Crypto.com users. The site presents a fraudulent login portal under the guise of account security verification, a common tactic to harvest credentials or deploy crypto drainer malware on victim devices. Analysis indicates the threat type aligns with credential theft and potential secondary payload delivery, given the domain's presentation as an official Crypto.com security page. Infrastructure analysis reveals the following technical indicators: the domain crypto-verify.net was registered on July 01, 2026, through NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED, a registrar frequently associated with malicious domain registrations. It resolves to IP address 178.16.54.253 and employs a Let's Encrypt SSL certificate, which while providing encryption, does not validate legitimacy. The page title "Secure Your Account - Crypto.com" directly mimics official branding. VirusTotal detection shows 2 out of 95 security vendors flagging the domain as malicious, a low but notable signal given the domain's recent creation and active status. No widely adopted blocklists or trust score systems currently list this domain, suggesting it remains under the radar of broader detection mechanisms. Mitigation steps for this brand impersonation threat include immediate blacklisting of the domain crypto-verify.net and its resolving IP 178.16.54.253 across all security controls. Network administrators should implement DNS sinkholing to prevent user access, while endpoint protection systems should be updated to detect and block any connections to this infrastructure. Users who may have interacted with the site should be instructed to reset credentials via official Crypto.com channels, enable multi-factor authentication, and scan devices for malware. Security teams should monitor for credential stuffing attempts or unauthorized transactions following exposure to this domain. Given the use of HTTP/3, inspection tools must support QUIC protocol analysis to detect and block this traffic. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- Favicon MD5: b8a0bf372c762e966cc99ede8682bc71 TLS cert SHA-256: 997b1a6a14e08e13a650d78c389560acf33be6601208d0417d235589c205047a ## 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/crypto-verify.net/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=crypto-verify.net 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: 174,949 domains (12,824 alive under monitoring, 161,236 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io