# PhishDestroy threat dossier — dexgroms.com
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Fetched:   2026-07-22 05:54:00 UTC
Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/dexgroms.com/

## VERDICT
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CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT
Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below)
Scam classification: Fake Exchange
Targeted brand: Investment Scam

## DETECTION EVIDENCE
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VirusTotal:      3/91 security vendors flagged this domain
  Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar
AlienVault OTX:  3 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions)
Public blocklists: listed on 3 independent blocklists

## INFRASTRUCTURE
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IP address:      188.114.97.3 (CA, Toronto)
ASN:             AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
Hosting org:     CloudFlare, Inc.
Registrar:       Realtime Register B.V.
Nameservers:     ["malcolm.ns.cloudflare.com", "nena.ns.cloudflare.com"]
Page title:      DEX Trading Platform
HTTP response:   200

## TLS CERTIFICATE
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Issuer:     Google Trust Services / WE1
Expires:    2026-10-07
Status:     INVALID chain
Fingerprint: a736f81058856e524f544e0ed8b031bed04f6ee735f557fd813f75a2c3268de1

## 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:    2026-07-19 12:38:24 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker)
Last verified:     2026-07-22 04:20:21 UTC
Current status:    ACTIVE / observable

## ANALYST NARRATIVE
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[Generated: 2026-07-20 00:07:20 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.]

dexgroms.com Safety Check — Fake Exchange Phishing

Analysis of dexgroms.com shows a high‑risk fake exchange phishing operation. The site resolves to the Cloudflare‑hosted IP 188.114.97.3, which is geolocated to Canada and is served by the Cloudflare nameservers malcolm.ns.cloudflare.com and nena.ns.cloudflare.com. The TLS certificate is issued by Google Trust Services (WE1), indicating the connection is encrypted but does not validate the legitimacy of the service. The HTTP response returns status 200 and the page title is "DEX Trading Platform," matching the reported scam type of a fake exchange. The domain was registered through Realtime Register B.V. and appears on three security blocklists; it is actively blocked by PhishDestroy, MetaMask, and SEAL. AlienVault OTX has listed the domain in three threat‑intel pulses, and VirusTotal reports three detections out of 91 scanning engines. These concrete indicators confirm that the domain is being used to lure victims into a counterfeit trading platform. Uncertainties remain regarding the exact phishing payload and any additional infrastructure beyond the observed Cloudflare edge. Defenders should block the domain at network perimeter, add it to URL filtering lists, and monitor DNS queries for the associated IP and nameservers. Continued observation of any changes to the TLS certificate, HTTP content, or additional detection feeds is advised.

## EVIDENCE HASHES
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Favicon MD5:       1b42f83c7619357769b08dcece74313d
TLS cert SHA-256:      a736f81058856e524f544e0ed8b031bed04f6ee735f557fd813f75a2c3268de1

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