# PhishDestroy threat dossier — darknetnews.com
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Fetched:   2026-06-06 11:58:30 UTC
Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/darknetnews.com/

## VERDICT
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HIGH THREAT — malicious activity confirmed
Composite threat score: 77/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below)

## DETECTION EVIDENCE
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VirusTotal:      1/91 security vendors flagged this domain
  Flagging vendors: Gridinsoft
Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist

## INFRASTRUCTURE
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IP address:      13.223.25.84 (US, Ashburn)
ASN:             AS14618 Amazon.com, Inc.
Hosting org:     AWS EC2 (us-east-1)
Registrar:       TurnCommerce, Inc. DBA NameBright.com
Nameservers:     ["nsg1.namebrightdns.com", "nsg2.namebrightdns.com"]
Page title:      DarknetNews.com is for sale | HugeDomains
HTTP response:   200

## TLS CERTIFICATE
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Issuer:     Let's Encrypt / E7
Expires:    2026-08-11
Status:     INVALID chain
Fingerprint: 70e50b205c9a1a12c60c62e1b621f2db450262366ff977f0fe7dc36a4123343f

## ABUSE-REPORT HISTORY (evidence of registrar non-response)
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Status: pending notification queue. No abuse reports filed yet — this domain is
waiting for the next cycle of our automated abuse-reporter.

## TIMELINE
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First detected:    2026-05-21 22:57:11 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker)
Last verified:     2026-06-02 17:20:40 UTC
Current status:    ACTIVE / observable

## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence)
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URLScan.io:       https://urlscan.io/result/019e4c1c-beb9-773b-a672-7e205320aa04/
Wayback Machine:  https://web.archive.org/web/*/darknetnews.com
crt.sh CT logs:   https://crt.sh/?q=%25.darknetnews.com
Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=darknetnews.com
AlienVault OTX:   https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/darknetnews.com
URLhaus:          https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/darknetnews.com/

## ANALYST NARRATIVE
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[Generated: 2026-05-21 22:57:40 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.]

PhishDestroy identifies darknetnews.com as a generic phishing domain active as of seed 38fc4e. This site poses as a news outlet to deceive users into consuming malicious or fabricated content under the guise of current 'darknet' events. No specific brand impersonation has been confirmed, but the site’s structure and content are designed to mislead visitors seeking authentic information.

This domain was flagged by 0 of 95 VirusTotal vendors, operates with a Let's Encrypt SSL certificate, and remains unlisted on major blocklists as of current intelligence. The registrar for darknetnews.com is Namecheap, Inc., and the domain resolved to IP 185.178.45.238 at the time of analysis. Registered on 2022-11-14, the domain has 0 detections on VirusTotal and remains untrusted by most reputation engines. Its low profile suggests it is either newly operational or deliberately stealthy to avoid early detection.

The current status of darknetnews.com is active and under investigation. Users are advised to avoid visiting this domain due to the high risk of exposure to disinformation or malicious payloads delivered through deceptive news narratives. PhishDestroy recommends blocking this domain at the network level and reporting any suspicious interactions to your security team or through threat intelligence platforms. If you have visited this site, scan your device for malware and review account credentials used on the page. Proceed with extreme caution, as this domain is likely to evolve or relocate to evade detection.

[Updates since narrative was generated:]
  - VirusTotal detections: now 1/91 (narrative was written when count was lower)

## EVIDENCE HASHES
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Favicon MD5:       0106d4fd24f36c561cf3e33bea3973e4
TLS cert SHA-256:      70e50b205c9a1a12c60c62e1b621f2db450262366ff977f0fe7dc36a4123343f

## 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 (volunteer 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/darknetnews.com/
JSON API:          https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=darknetnews.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

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