# PhishDestroy threat dossier — exponential-trade.com ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-27 13:23:56 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/exponential-trade.com/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- HIGH THREAT — malicious activity confirmed Composite threat score: 67/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 11/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, BitDefender, Chong Lua Dao, CyRadar, ESET, Fortinet, G-Data, Lionic, Netcraft, Sophos, VIPRE AlienVault OTX: 2 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions) Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 86.107.77.165 (DE, Eschborn) ASN: AS216395 HostBet Cloud Technologies Private Limited Hosting org: HostBet Cloud Technologies Private Limited Registrar: NameSilo, LLC !!! REGISTRAR INTEGRITY ALERT — NameSilo !!! NameSilo is a registrar documented by PhishDestroy as (1) publicly lying about received abuse reports, (2) shielding a $20M+ Monero-theft operation (xmrwallet.com) for 10 continuous years, and (3) retaliating against PhishDestroy by getting our X/Twitter account @Phish_Destroy banned after we published the evidence. Researchers/victims must ALWAYS CC compliance@icann.org on every abuse ticket — NameSilo has a track record of later claiming reports were never received. Primary sources: https://phishdestroy.io/namesilo-killed-our-twitter https://phishdestroy.io/xmrwallet-namesilo-exposed Nameservers: ns1.hostmane.net, ns2.hostmane.net Registered: 2025-10-07 Expires: 2026-10-07 Page title: Exponential Trade - Exceptional Platform HTTP response: 200 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Let's Encrypt / YR2 Expires: 2026-09-06 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: d1482ea22593e1ee66f7fd79f964fea489bc0b9cb33c02a442eed2e50e46f6b6 ## 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: 2025-10-07 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-27 06:20:02 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) First reported: 2026-07-27 06:12:19 UTC (abuse notice filed) Last verified: 2026-07-27 12:57:58 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019fa1cb-7d5e-700b-8260-f41fd74d27ae/ URLQuery: https://urlquery.net/report/993552df-a2e3-4407-b33d-fc8ef203e912 Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/exponential-trade.com crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.exponential-trade.com Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=exponential-trade.com AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/exponential-trade.com URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/exponential-trade.com/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-27 06:21:32 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] exponential-trade.com Generic Phishing Alert exponential-trade.com was registered through NameSilo, LLC on 07 Oct 2025 and uses the hostmane.net name servers (ns1.hostmane.net, ns2.hostmane.net). The domain resolves to the IPv4 address 86.107.77.165, which is currently active. VirusTotal reports that 11 of 91 scanning engines flag the domain as malicious, indicating a moderate level of detection across vendors. The domain is listed on a single external blocklist and is actively blocked by PhishDestroy, reinforcing its classification as a high‑risk phishing infrastructure. No public evidence of a TLS certificate, HTTP response codes, or page title has been published, and no additional intelligence from OTX, Safe Browsing, or similar feeds is available at this time. The lack of further context means that the exact phishing campaign details, target brand, or lure content remain unknown, but the observed indicators align with typical credential‑harvesting operations that exploit newly registered domains to increase trust. Defenders should add the IP address 86.107.77.165 to outbound deny lists, enforce DNS sink‑hole rules for exponential‑trade.com, and monitor for any outbound connections to the hostmane.net name servers. Email gateways should be configured to flag or quarantine messages containing links to this domain, and endpoint detection platforms should incorporate the 11 VirusTotal detections as a heuristic for malicious activity. Continuous review of blocklist feeds for additional listings and periodic re‑scanning of the domain are recommended to capture any future changes in its behavior. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- PhishDestroy Case ID: PD-20260727-276621 TLS cert SHA-256: d1482ea22593e1ee66f7fd79f964fea489bc0b9cb33c02a442eed2e50e46f6b6 ## 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/exponential-trade.com/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=exponential-trade.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: 205,401 domains (80,573 alive under monitoring, 123,797 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io