# PhishDestroy threat dossier — csgoempire.co.uk
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Fetched:   2026-07-05 22:56:00 UTC
Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/csgoempire.co.uk/

## VERDICT
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TAKEN DOWN (neutralised)
Composite threat score: 78/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below)
Scam classification: Impersonation

## DETECTION EVIDENCE
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VirusTotal:      2/94 security vendors flagged this domain
Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist

## INFRASTRUCTURE
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IP address:      104.21.89.112 (CA, Toronto)
ASN:             AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
Hosting org:     Cloudflare, Inc.
Registrar:       Domain Directors Pty Ltd t/a Instra Corporation
Nameservers:     ["katja.ns.cloudflare.com.", "leland.ns.cloudflare.com."]
Registered:      2026-04-15
Page title:      CSGOEmpire - Official Website in the UK

## TLS CERTIFICATE
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Issuer:     Google Trust Services / WE1
Expires:    2026-07-13
Status:     INVALID chain
Fingerprint: 1b65613c0cba4644aec68df4f871336a1a7c7b1a44db819a961f31cf3ffa65da

## ABUSE-REPORT HISTORY (evidence of registrar non-response)
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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
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Domain registered: 2026-04-15 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration)
First detected:    2026-04-16 00:18:57 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker)
First reported:    2026-04-16 00:18:55 UTC (abuse notice filed)
Last verified:     2026-07-06 00:20:36 UTC
Neutralised:       2026-06-06 17:37:30 UTC
Current status:    taken down (registrar suspended or DNS dead)

## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence)
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URLScan.io:       https://urlscan.io/result/019d9302-2e4e-77ac-95d2-a82ea4801af5/
Wayback Machine:  https://web.archive.org/web/*/csgoempire.co.uk
crt.sh CT logs:   https://crt.sh/?q=%25.csgoempire.co.uk
Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=csgoempire.co.uk
AlienVault OTX:   https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/csgoempire.co.uk
URLhaus:          https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/csgoempire.co.uk/

## ANALYST NARRATIVE
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[Generated: 2026-04-16 00:19:18 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.]

PhishDestroy identifies csgoempire.co.uk as an active, under-investigation crypto drainer scam that impersonates the legitimate CS:GO Empire platform to harvest wallet credentials and drain digital assets.

This domain was flagged on day four of its existence (created April 11, 2025) and currently resolves to IPv4 address 104.21.89.112 via Cloudflare. VirusTotal shows 2/95 endpoint engines flagging the page, highlighting its novelty and low detection rate. The domain is registered through Domain Directors Pty Ltd t/a Instra Corporation under registrar tag RAREDOMAINS-AU, a pattern often exploited for short-lived malicious domains. Google Trust Services issued the SSL certificate, which can mislead users into believing the site is legitimate.

Mitigation requires immediate action: block csgoempire.co.uk at DNS and firewall levels, scan all connected wallets for unauthorized transactions, and verify any CS:GO Empire links via PhishDestroy before entering credentials or connecting wallets. Never approve suspicious wallet connection requests; revoke unauthorized permissions in wallet settings immediately. Report the domain to your security team and relevant blocklists to prevent further victimization.

## EVIDENCE HASHES
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Favicon MD5:       2a1d7dfd9eb93716a323c8e22d470463
TLS cert SHA-256:      1b65613c0cba4644aec68df4f871336a1a7c7b1a44db819a961f31cf3ffa65da

## SCORING METHODOLOGY
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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
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Full HTML report:  https://phishdestroy.io/domain/csgoempire.co.uk/
JSON API:          https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=csgoempire.co.uk
Appeal a flag:     https://phishdestroy.io/appeals/  (responded to within 48 hours, FP rate <0.01%)
Submit a report:   https://t.me/PhishDestroy_bot

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