# PhishDestroy threat dossier — europe-north.kfenewsa.life
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Fetched:   2026-06-28 10:10:07 UTC
Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/europe-north.kfenewsa.life/

## VERDICT
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TAKEN DOWN (neutralised)
Composite threat score: 77/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below)
Scam classification: Generic Phishing

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

## INFRASTRUCTURE
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IP address:      172.67.186.136 (US, San Francisco)
ASN:             ASAS13335 CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US
Hosting org:     AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
Registrar:       REGISTRAR_NOT_FOUND
Nameservers:     NS_NOT_FOUND
Page title:      STV-Eklat bei Illner: Maybrit bringt Friedrich Merz in Bedrängnis – geheimer Regierungsplan erschüttert Deutschland | tagesschau.de

## TLS CERTIFICATE
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Issuer:     Google Trust Services / WE1
Expires:    2026-09-21
Status:     INVALID chain
Fingerprint: fca1f734c6068ea1dd9aacc6cdfa3f008a97c026300b97aa47762fd18dadf846
Subject Alternative Names (related infrastructure — often same operator):
  - kfenewsa.life

## 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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First detected:    2026-06-23 22:00:51 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker)
Last verified:     2026-06-28 08:20:34 UTC
Neutralised:       2026-06-24 00:01:54 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/019ef611-4d99-724f-9670-0cc62c12417e/
Wayback Machine:  https://web.archive.org/web/*/europe-north.kfenewsa.life
crt.sh CT logs:   https://crt.sh/?q=%25.europe-north.kfenewsa.life
Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=europe-north.kfenewsa.life
AlienVault OTX:   https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/europe-north.kfenewsa.life
URLhaus:          https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/europe-north.kfenewsa.life/

## ANALYST NARRATIVE
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[Generated: 2026-06-24 15:01:35 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.]

The domain europe-north.kfenewsa.life is associated with a generic phishing operation and has a high threat score of 70/100. The site is currently down, indicating it has been taken down or is inactive. VirusTotal shows only 1 out of 95 security vendors, specifically ESET, has flagged this domain as malicious, and it is listed on one public blocklist, while Google Safe Browsing has not flagged it.

No registrar data is available, suggesting the domain may use privacy protection or has been scrubbed. The hosting IP is 172.67.186.136, and the domain was first seen on June 23, 2026. Block the domain at the perimeter and flag the IP as an IOC for further monitoring.

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

## EVIDENCE HASHES
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TLS cert SHA-256:      fca1f734c6068ea1dd9aacc6cdfa3f008a97c026300b97aa47762fd18dadf846

## 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/europe-north.kfenewsa.life/
JSON API:          https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=europe-north.kfenewsa.life
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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