# PhishDestroy threat dossier — hirortex.de
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Fetched:   2026-05-13 17:11:04 UTC
Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/hirortex.de/

## VERDICT
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TAKEN DOWN (neutralised)
Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below)
Scam classification: Impersonation
Targeted brand: argent (and: binance, coinbase, ethereum, kraken, revolut)

## DETECTION EVIDENCE
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VirusTotal:      16/93 security vendors flagged this domain
  Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, BitDefender, Certego, Chong Lua Dao, CRDF, CyRadar, Fortinet, G-Data, Google Safebrowsing, Gridinsoft, Lionic, Seclookup, SOCRadar, Sophos, VIPRE, Webroot
AlienVault OTX:  1 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions)
Public blocklists: listed on 2 independent blocklists
Google Safe Browsing: FLAGGED
Victim re-reports (public form): 1

## INFRASTRUCTURE
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IP address:      188.114.97.3 (US, San Francisco)
ASN:             ASAS13335 CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US
Hosting org:     AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
Nameservers:     lilyana.ns.cloudflare.com, lochlan.ns.cloudflare.com
Registered:      2026-02-21
Page title:      Hirortex
HTTP response:   530

## TLS CERTIFICATE
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Issuer:     none
Status:     INVALID chain

## 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: 2026-02-21 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration)
First detected:    2026-02-25 02:39:27 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker)
Earliest abuse rec: 2026-01-28 22:40:16 UTC — PREDATES current WHOIS registration; retained from a previous registration cycle of the same domain name
Last verified:     2026-05-13 18:33:17 UTC
Neutralised:       2026-04-28 04:51:40 UTC
Current status:    taken down (registrar suspended or DNS dead)

Note: one or more events above predate the WHOIS creation date. This typically means
the same domain name was previously registered, detected, dropped, and then re-registered
by a new party. PhishDestroy preserves the full historical record for operator-attribution
research even when the underlying infrastructure changes hands.

## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence)
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URLScan.io:       https://urlscan.io/result/019c061d-164f-701f-b708-35ba4cc7e4be/
Wayback Machine:  https://web.archive.org/web/*/hirortex.de
crt.sh CT logs:   https://crt.sh/?q=%25.hirortex.de
Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=hirortex.de
AlienVault OTX:   https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/hirortex.de
URLhaus:          https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/hirortex.de/

## ANALYST NARRATIVE
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[Generated: 2026-03-03 03:38:36 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.]

PhishDestroy identifies hirortex.de as a high-risk crypto drainer domain that has been flagged by multiple security services for engaging in social engineering attacks. The site, now offline, was designed to steal cryptocurrency wallets and drain digital assets from unsuspecting users. Given its association with phishing and high threat level, interaction with this domain poses significant financial risk.

This phishing campaign operated by luring victims to the hirortex.de website, which mimicked legitimate pages to deceive users into revealing private keys or wallet credentials. Once compromised, attackers could access and transfer victims’ cryptocurrency holdings without consent. The domain was reported on several security blocklists and flagged for manipulating users through social engineering tactics.

Users should avoid visiting hirortex.de and never input sensitive wallet information on suspicious sites. It is critical to verify URLs carefully, use hardware wallets or trusted wallet software, and enable multi-factor authentication where possible. If exposure to this domain occurred, users should immediately secure their wallets by transferring assets to new addresses and monitoring for unauthorized transactions.

## 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 (volunteer 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/hirortex.de/
JSON API:          https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=hirortex.de
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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