# PhishDestroy threat dossier — expensestatus.com ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-08 14:48:34 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/expensestatus.com/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- ACTIVE + CLOAKED — returns HTTP 666 to scanners, real fraudulent site to victims Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) Cloaking: DETECTED — domain returns custom HTTP 666 to scanners while serving fraudulent content to real users (type: content_divergence) (score: 2/6) ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 8/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: ADMINUSLabs, alphaMountain.ai, Chong Lua Dao, Fortinet, Gridinsoft, SafeToOpen, SOCRadar, URLQuery AlienVault OTX: 50 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions) Public blocklists: listed on 2 independent blocklists ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 52.204.246.179 (US, Ashburn) ASN: AS14618 Amazon.com, Inc. Hosting org: AWS EC2 (us-east-1) Registrar: MarkMonitor, Inc. Nameservers: ns-1104.awsdns-10.org, ns-1580.awsdns-05.co.uk, ns-364.awsdns-45.com, ns-667.awsdns-19.net Registered: 2017-06-12 Expires: 2028-06-12 HTTP response: 404 ## 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: 2017-06-12 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-08 14:03:45 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) Last verified: 2026-07-08 16:25:19 UTC Current status: ACTIVE — cloaked behind HTTP 666 to evade scanners ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019f419c-72ea-76eb-8559-2b964261f0c4/ Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/expensestatus.com crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.expensestatus.com Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=expensestatus.com AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/expensestatus.com URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/expensestatus.com/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-08 14:05:18 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] This domain operates as a credential harvesting platform designed to mimic legitimate corporate expense management systems. Analysis indicates expensestatus.com presents fraudulent login interfaces that closely resemble enterprise expense reporting tools, with the primary objective of capturing employee usernames, passwords, and potentially multi-factor authentication codes. The site employs convincing corporate branding elements and expense-related terminology to deceive victims into submitting sensitive authentication details. Infrastructure analysis reveals multiple high-confidence indicators of malicious activity. The domain was registered on June 12, 2017 through MarkMonitor, Inc., an unusual registrar choice for typical phishing operations that often use budget providers. Security telemetry shows 8 out of 95 security vendors on VirusTotal flag this domain as malicious, with detections spanning phishing, credential theft, and corporate espionage categories. The domain appears on two specialized security blocklists (PhishingDB and BLP-Malware) and resolves to IP address 52.204.246.179, hosted on infrastructure commonly associated with cloud-based phishing campaigns. The Let's Encrypt SSL certificate provides HTTPS encryption, creating a false sense of security while facilitating the credential interception process. Organizations and individuals who have interacted with expensestatus.com should immediately initiate incident response procedures. All credentials potentially exposed through this domain must be considered compromised and rotated across all systems where identical or similar passwords may have been reused. Security teams should examine network logs for connections to 52.204.246.179 and review endpoint detection data for any processes that may have communicated with this IP address. Users who entered credentials should enable additional authentication factors where available and monitor accounts for unauthorized access attempts. Corporate security teams are advised to implement DNS-based blocking of this domain and its associated IP address across all enterprise systems to prevent further exposure. ## 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/expensestatus.com/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=expensestatus.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 About PhishDestroy: independent open-source threat-intelligence platform. Tracked: 176,190 domains (13,334 alive under monitoring, 161,869 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io