# PhishDestroy threat dossier — defactovoting.io ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-24 04:32:24 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/defactovoting.io/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- HIGH THREAT — malicious activity confirmed Composite threat score: 66/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 15/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, BitDefender, Chong Lua Dao, CRDF, CyRadar, ESET, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, G-Data, Gridinsoft, Kaspersky, Lionic, Quttera, Sophos, VIPRE AlienVault OTX: 1 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions) Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 104.21.31.32 (US, San Francisco) Hosting org: AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. Registrar: NAMECHEAP INC Nameservers: john.ns.cloudflare.com, thea.ns.cloudflare.com Registered: 2026-06-25 Expires: 2027-06-25 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Google Trust Services / WE1 Expires: 2026-10-22 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: 505b0f49f397751bf2c77ffce3f93218027e5db56fdfddde6e05007109be84da ## 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: 2026-06-25 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-24 03:37:10 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) Last verified: 2026-07-24 06:20:12 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019f91c4-a0a1-72ba-84f0-fdbd414c6f00/ Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/defactovoting.io crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.defactovoting.io Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=defactovoting.io AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/defactovoting.io URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/defactovoting.io/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-24 03:37:25 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] defactovoting.io Phishing Site Detected The domain defactovoting.io was registered through Namecheap Inc on 25 June 2026 and delegated to Cloudflare nameservers john.ns.cloudflare.com and thea.ns.cloudflare.com. DNS resolution points to the IP address 104.21.31.32, which is hosted on the Cloudflare network. Threat intelligence sources have placed the domain on a single security blocklist and it is actively blocked by the PhishDestroy feed. VirusTotal analysis shows that 15 of 91 scanning engines have flagged the domain as malicious, indicating a consensus of suspicion among a subset of vendors. No public page title, SSL certificate details, HTTP response codes, or trust‑score metrics have been published for the site, so the exact content and certificate posture remain unknown. Infrastructure analysis confirms that the domain’s hosting resides behind Cloudflare’s reverse‑proxy service, which can obscure the true origin server and complicate attribution. The recent creation date, combined with the rapid appearance on a blocklist and multiple vendor detections, is consistent with a short‑lived phishing infrastructure designed to target voters or election‑related communications. Defactovoting.io is currently classified as a generic phishing campaign, and its high risk rating reflects the combination of active blocklist presence, multi‑vendor detections, and the lack of publicly verifiable security controls. Defenders should add the fully qualified domain name and its resolved IP address to outbound and inbound filtering rules, enforce DNS sink‑hole policies for the associated Cloudflare nameservers, and monitor threat‑intel feeds for any future changes in detection counts. Continuous re‑scanning of the domain on VirusTotal or similar platforms is recommended to capture evolving vendor assessments. Given the limited visibility into the site’s payload, organizations are advised to treat any communications referencing defactovoting.io as malicious until the domain is definitively retired or re‑classified. [Updates since narrative was generated:] - WHOIS creation date: 2026-06-25 ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- TLS cert SHA-256: 505b0f49f397751bf2c77ffce3f93218027e5db56fdfddde6e05007109be84da ## 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/defactovoting.io/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=defactovoting.io 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: 188,978 domains (58,405 alive under monitoring, 128,955 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io