# PhishDestroy threat dossier — hardwarewalletonline.com
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Fetched:   2026-08-01 02:11:25 UTC
Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/hardwarewalletonline.com/

## VERDICT
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CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT
Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below)
Scam classification: Crypto Drainer

## DETECTION EVIDENCE
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VirusTotal:      4/91 security vendors flagged this domain
  Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar
AlienVault OTX:  4 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions)
Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist

## INFRASTRUCTURE
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IP address:      188.114.96.3 (CA, Toronto)
ASN:             AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
Hosting org:     CloudFlare, Inc.
Registrar:       Cloudflare, Inc.
Nameservers:     ["hal.ns.cloudflare.com", "nina.ns.cloudflare.com"]
HTTP response:   403

## TLS CERTIFICATE
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Issuer:     Google Trust Services / WE1
Expires:    2026-10-03
Status:     INVALID chain
Fingerprint: 922087470f91d7165a9dd76f42e5b4a12d2a9d917148252de45ff4f743eda93a

## ABUSE-REPORT HISTORY (evidence of registrar non-response)
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Status: pending notification queue. No abuse reports filed yet — this domain is
waiting for the next cycle of our automated abuse-reporter.

## TIMELINE
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First detected:    2026-07-26 13:33:09 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker)
Last verified:     2026-08-01 03:44:57 UTC
Current status:    ACTIVE / observable

## ANALYST NARRATIVE
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[Generated: 2026-07-26 13:34:11 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.]

hardwarewalletonline.com Safety Check — Crypto Drainer

hardwarewalletonline.com is currently flagged as a high‑risk crypto drainer. Registration data shows the domain is hosted through Cloudflare, Inc., with authoritative nameservers hal.ns.cloudflare.com and nina.ns.cloudflare.com, indicating the use of Cloudflare’s DNS and protection services. The domain appears on a single security blocklist and is listed as blocked by the PhishDestroy sinkhole, confirming that at least one mitigation platform has taken action against it.

VirusTotal analysis reports that four of ninety‑one scanning engines have identified malicious behavior, reinforcing the suspicion of illicit activity despite the majority of vendors returning clean results. An HTTP request to the domain returns a 403 Forbidden response, which may be employed to conceal malicious payloads or to restrict access to targeted victims. The presence of a 403 status coupled with the active blocklist entry suggests that the infrastructure is deliberately restricting public access while remaining operational for intended targets.

No additional intelligence such as SSL certificate details, page title, or content analysis is presently available, leaving the exact delivery mechanism of the crypto‑draining payload uncertain. Defenders should continue to block the domain at DNS and proxy layers, monitor outbound connections for attempts to resolve or contact the domain, and consider adding it to internal threat‑intel feeds. Ongoing observation of the associated IP address space and any future VirusTotal updates is recommended to capture potential escalation or changes in detection rates.

## EVIDENCE HASHES
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Favicon MD5:       a4bf8c256db88a019a367ce96af34ca4
TLS cert SHA-256:      922087470f91d7165a9dd76f42e5b4a12d2a9d917148252de45ff4f743eda93a

## 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/hardwarewalletonline.com/
JSON API:          https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=hardwarewalletonline.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

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