# PhishDestroy threat dossier — governance-flare.info
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Fetched:   2026-07-02 17:05:39 UTC
Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/governance-flare.info/

## VERDICT
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TAKEN DOWN (neutralised)
Composite threat score: 69/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below)

## DETECTION EVIDENCE
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VirusTotal:      4/92 security vendors flagged this domain
  Flagging vendors: ChainPatrol, alphaMountain.ai, Fortinet, Gridinsoft
AlienVault OTX:  1 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions)
Public blocklists: listed on 3 independent blocklists

## INFRASTRUCTURE
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IP address:      172.67.212.221 (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:     ["adam.ns.cloudflare.com", "danica.ns.cloudflare.com"]
Registered:      2026-05-11
Page title:      Just a moment...

## TLS CERTIFICATE
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Issuer:     Let's Encrypt / E8
Expires:    2026-08-09
Status:     INVALID chain
Fingerprint: d2e48ef8f10b9e51e0bd49461890cbf0d929d5d9ee1d030c975bff74001d34a3

## 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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Domain registered: 2026-05-11 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration)
First detected:    2026-05-11 11:30:09 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker)
First reported:    2026-06-15 00:27:29 UTC (abuse notice filed)
Last verified:     2026-07-02 16:20:38 UTC
Neutralised:       2026-05-11 19:51:24 UTC
Current status:    taken down (registrar suspended or DNS dead)

## ANALYST NARRATIVE
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[Generated: 2026-06-18 17:00:32 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.]

PhishDestroy identifies governance-flare.info as a generic_phishing domain that poses an elevated risk to users, as it attempts to deceive them into divulging sensitive information. 
   
This domain was flagged due to its recent creation on May 11, 2026, and its registration through NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED, with a Let's Encrypt SSL certificate, and it resolves to the IP address 172.67.212.221, which has been linked to 1 threat intelligence pulse on AlienVault OTX. Furthermore, governance-flare.info has been flagged by 4 out of 95 security vendors on VirusTotal and appears on 3 security blocklists.

The domain's page title, 'Just a moment...', may indicate a attempts to trick users into waiting for a legitimate page to load, while in reality, it may be harvesting their sensitive information, and with its current status being offline, it is crucial for users to exercise caution if they have visited this site, as they may have been exposed to malware or had their data compromised.

## EVIDENCE HASHES
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Favicon MD5:       dc270172d1648eb90a7ac9e496aaa7ec
TLS cert SHA-256:      d2e48ef8f10b9e51e0bd49461890cbf0d929d5d9ee1d030c975bff74001d34a3

## 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 (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
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Full HTML report:  https://phishdestroy.io/domain/governance-flare.info/
JSON API:          https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=governance-flare.info
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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