Security engines reporting a detection: 8. Public blocklists reporting a match: 2. Exercise extreme caution — do not enter credentials or personal information.
The domain distributions-flare.foundation was registered on May 11, 2026 through PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com. It is equipped with a valid Let's Encrypt E7 certificate, indicating active HTTPS service. The domain’s age of less than three months aligns with typical rapid‑deployment timelines observed for phishing infrastructure.
Infrastructure analysis shows the domain resolves to the IP address 188.114.97.3, which is hosted by a CDN located in Canada. Authoritative name servers are alex.ns.cloudflare.com and ariella.ns.cloudflare.com, confirming the use of a global edge network. The web server responds with HTTP status 403 and advertises support for HTTP/3, while the page title returned is “Just a moment…”, a pattern commonly employed to obscure the actual content.
Threat intelligence sources flag the domain as high‑risk. It appears on three public blocklists and is listed in an AlienVault OTX pulse. Additional blocking is observed from PhishDestroy, MetaMask, and SEAL. VirusTotal reports two of ninety‑five security vendors flagging the domain, and Gridinsoft assigns a trust score of zero out of one hundred, reinforcing the malicious assessment.
Defenders should add the domain and its resolving IP to outbound filtering rules and monitor DNS queries for the associated name servers. Continuous telemetry should be gathered for any HTTP/3 traffic to the IP, and any attempts to retrieve the “Just a moment…” page should be logged and investigated. Given the active status and high‑risk classification, immediate containment actions, such as sink‑holing or redirecting traffic to a safe endpoint, are advisable to prevent credential harvesting.
Detection-evasion analysis
Cloaking and traffic-distribution check
Not observedNo cloaking was observed in the stored scan
Stored crawler-versus-browser observations for this host, plus a live fingerprint check for Keitaro-style traffic distribution systems.
RegistrationCreated May 11, 2026 (155d)—Expires May 11, 2027
HTTP Status403 Forbidden
Technical detailsProvenance & timestamps
First DetectedJun 15, 2026
DOM Analysisanalyzed Sep 19, 2026score 95/1001 brand signal
Favicon Hash
ICANN OVERSIGHT
Accreditation and RAA context
Registrar accreditation and DNS abuse obligations
For this gTLD, the registrar above operates under an ICANN accreditation agreement. The links below provide the official fee schedule and current DNS abuse compliance guidance.
Accreditation is a contract, not a safety certification.
RAA §3.18 establishes abuse-contact and handling requirements. This report can document stored outbound notices and later technical observations; it does not by itself establish receipt, investigation, remediation, or contractual non-compliance.
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
Primary outcomeReachable but protectedreason: Cloudflare Challenge85% confidence
AttributionCloudflaremechanism: Challengesource: Current Http Probe
Evidence layersAvailability: Reachable but protectedContent: UnknownDNS: ResolvedRegistration: Unknown
Latest HTTP observationReachable but protectedCloudflare ChallengeCloudflareChallenge85%2026-10-13 10:23:23 UTC
RDAP registrationUnknown
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-13 10:23:23 UTC
Availability, content, DNS and registration are independent evidence layers. NXDOMAIN, an unreachable origin or missing content alone does not prove registrar action. A registrar or provider is credited only when a direct technical marker identifies that actor. Report causality is shown separately.
Technologies · 2 identified
Cloudflare
CDN
Cloudflare is a web-infrastructure and website-security company, providing content-delivery-network services, DDoS mitigation, Internet security, and distributed domain-name-server services.
Last analyzed Previous stored snapshot: 7 detections
ChainPatrol
alphaMountain.ai
BitDefender
Chong Lua Dao
Forcepoint ThreatSeeker
G-Data
Gridinsoft
Seclookup
Forensic History & Detection Timeline
ThreatLifecycleTelemetry
This timeline displays historical security and status checkpoints observed by the PhishDestroy automated monitoring network. It records domain lifecycle updates, scanner changes, and threat telemetry over time.
11 recorded events. These records describe collected evidence, outgoing notifications and publication; they do not confirm a complete investigation or a takedown.
Threat Ingested
distributions-flare.foundation detected and queued for full analysis
A stored Cloudflare Radar report is available. The report link alone is not a malicious verdict and does not prove that every network field was captured.
The domain remains reachable or access-restricted; future checks may update this observation.
How we investigate & report
Public scans, evidence and abuse channels
We scan suspicious URLs, inspect public results and send evidence through the appropriate abuse-reporting channels. The dated events above show what is recorded for this domain. The directory below explains the wider workflow.
01Public scans & evidence collection10 sources and tool groups+
Inspect the public DNS, TLS, HTTP and technology surface.
02Abuse reports & follow-upRegistrar, hosting and security channels+
Identify the responsible provider. Match registration and hosting records to the relevant abuse contact.
Prepare an evidence package. Include the URL, public scan references, captures and the recorded observations.
Send the report. Keep outgoing report records and recipient information when available.
Recheck and publish updates. Track later scanner verdicts, provider responses and site availability.
Security services used for scanning, reputation checks and reporting are listed below. A service being listed is not evidence that it received, accepted or acted on this particular domain. Recorded submissions appear in the notification history above.
4 evidence signal groups linked0 reports recordedReachable · access restricted
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Each lane is one reason a domain is linked to this host. Node size marks VirusTotal detections and dashed nodes are already offline. The full lists follow below.
Content matches4
Same favicon hash or the same page title as this host.
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