# PhishDestroy threat dossier — cryptoprotocs.xyz ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-24 16:49:21 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/cryptoprotocs.xyz/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) Scam classification: Impersonation Targeted brand: Crypto.com ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 5/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, Gridinsoft, Sophos URLQuery: 2 detections Public blocklists: listed on 3 independent blocklists ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 188.114.97.3 (CA, Toronto) ASN: AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. Hosting org: 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: ines.ns.cloudflare.com, tanner.ns.cloudflare.com Registered: 2026-07-22 Expires: 2027-07-22 Page title: Crypto.com | The only crypto platform you need HTTP response: 200 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Google Trust Services / WE1 Expires: 2026-10-20 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: 56f3838ce4ee59177c293637dcd59c3679f241a02a4219c8483e782c9da4d679 ## 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: 2026-07-22 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-24 10:59:56 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) First reported: 2026-07-24 09:03:54 UTC (abuse notice filed) Last verified: 2026-07-24 16:20:21 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019f9359-e0e0-703f-bfc1-1172858c2149/ URLQuery: https://urlquery.net/report/a3671700-e8cc-4f9e-93c3-399c67b7df2b Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/cryptoprotocs.xyz crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.cryptoprotocs.xyz Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=cryptoprotocs.xyz AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/cryptoprotocs.xyz URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/cryptoprotocs.xyz/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-24 11:01:44 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] cryptoprotocs.xyz Phishing Infrastructure Alert The domain cryptoprotocs.xyz was registered on July 22, 2026 through NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED and is currently pointing to the IP address 188.114.97.3. Both authoritative name servers are hosted by Cloudflare (ines.ns.cloudflare.com and tanner.ns.cloudflare.com), indicating the attacker is leveraging Cloudflare’s DNS and CDN services to obscure the true origin of the web server. VirusTotal has recorded five positive detections out of ninety‑one submitted scans, confirming that multiple security vendors have identified the domain as malicious. The domain appears on three public blocklists and is explicitly blocked by the PhishDestroy, MetaMask, and SEAL filtering services, which further corroborates its classification as a phishing vector. The threat is labeled as generic phishing and the risk level is high; the status remains active as of the report date, July 24, 2026. At present no publicly available page title, SSL certificate information, HTTP status code, or content signatures have been disclosed, so defenders cannot confirm the exact phishing lure or the targeted brand. The observed infrastructure suggests a typical deployment that relies on Cloudflare’s edge network to provide resilience against takedown attempts. The presence of multiple vendor detections and blocklist listings indicates that the domain is already being shared with threat‑intelligence communities. Organizations should block the domain at network perimeters and update endpoint protection signatures to include the five VirusTotal detections. Email gateways should be configured to reject or quarantine messages containing URLs that resolve to 188.114.97.3, and DNS sinkholing can be employed against the two Cloudflare name servers. Continuous monitoring of the IP address and associated hosting environment is advised, as the attacker may shift hosting or register additional domains using the same registrar. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- PhishDestroy Case ID: PD-20260724-17F0B7 TLS cert SHA-256: 56f3838ce4ee59177c293637dcd59c3679f241a02a4219c8483e782c9da4d679 ## 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/cryptoprotocs.xyz/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=cryptoprotocs.xyz 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: 189,345 domains (58,571 alive under monitoring, 129,192 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io