# PhishDestroy threat dossier — exponent-finances.com ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-08-01 01:50:16 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/exponent-finances.com/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) Scam classification: Fake Exchange Targeted brand: Solana ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 3/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, Fortinet, Gridinsoft Public blocklists: listed on 2 independent blocklists ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 188.114.97.3 (CA, Toronto) ASN: AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. Hosting org: CloudFlare, Inc. Registrar: NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED !!! REGISTRAR INTEGRITY ALERT — NiceNIC !!! NiceNIC International: over 90% of its registered domains are associated with illegal content; documented systematic abuse-report non-response. Primary sources: https://phishdestroy.io/nicenic-real https://phishdestroy.io/nicenic-verdict Nameservers: mckinley.ns.cloudflare.com, nitin.ns.cloudflare.com Registered: 2026-07-23 Expires: 2027-07-23 Page title: Exponent: Outperform market rates with Solana's yield exchange HTTP response: 200 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Google Trust Services / WE1 Expires: 2026-10-21 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: 84135503f04be35990bd1348ac986b06e8f0d88703d7ca1c1be82f2f61a5ec52 ## 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: 2026-07-23 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-31 08:11:58 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) Last verified: 2026-08-01 03:39:48 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019fb6cd-0b70-7550-99e5-ca3c82dc6af1/ Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/exponent-finances.com crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.exponent-finances.com Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=exponent-finances.com AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/exponent-finances.com URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/exponent-finances.com/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-31 08:14:11 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] exponent-finances.com — Phishing Infrastructure Report The domain exponent-finances.com was registered on July 23, 2026 through NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED. Its authoritative name servers are mckinley.ns.cloudflare.com and nitin.ns.cloudflare.com, indicating the use of Cloudflare’s DNS service. DNS resolution points the domain to IP address 188.114.97.3, an address owned by Cloudflare and commonly shared among multiple unrelated sites, which can complicate network‑level attribution. The domain appears on a single public security blocklist and is actively listed by PhishDestroy, confirming that at least one anti‑phishing service has identified malicious activity associated with the host. VirusTotal analysis shows that three of ninety‑one scanning engines have flagged the domain, providing independent vendor corroboration of suspicious behavior. No additional intelligence such as SSL certificate details, HTTP response codes, page title, or brand targeting is presently available, indicating that content analysis has not yet been published or that the site may be dynamically generated. The combination of a very recent registration date, Cloudflare‑based hosting, and multiple vendor detections suggests a purpose‑built phishing infrastructure that is currently operational. Defenders should add exponent-finances.com to outbound filtering rules, enforce DNS sink‑holing for the domain, and consider blocking the associated IP address 188.114.97.3 at perimeter devices, while monitoring for any subsequent activity from the same Cloudflare name servers. Continuous re‑scanning of the domain and periodic checks of reputation feeds are recommended to capture any evolution in detection scores or additional blocklist listings. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- TLS cert SHA-256: 84135503f04be35990bd1348ac986b06e8f0d88703d7ca1c1be82f2f61a5ec52 ## 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/exponent-finances.com/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=exponent-finances.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: 196,233 domains (99,561 alive under monitoring, 27,268 confirmed neutralized). Site: https://phishdestroy.io