# PhishDestroy threat dossier — incentives-aave.xyz
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Fetched:   2026-07-23 00:42:12 UTC
Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/incentives-aave.xyz/

## VERDICT
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TAKEN DOWN (neutralised)
Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below)
Scam classification: Impersonation
Targeted brand: Aave

## DETECTION EVIDENCE
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VirusTotal:      0/91 security vendors flagged this domain
URLQuery:        3 detections
Public blocklists: listed on 3 independent blocklists

## INFRASTRUCTURE
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IP address:      172.67.201.153 (US, San Francisco)
ASN:             ASAS13335 CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US
Hosting org:     AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
Registrar:       Dynadot Inc
Nameservers:     adam.ns.cloudflare.com, danica.ns.cloudflare.com
Registered:      2026-07-15
Expires:         2027-07-15
Page title:      Aave
HTTP response:   502

## TLS CERTIFICATE
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Issuer:     Google Trust Services / WE1
Expires:    2026-10-13
Status:     INVALID chain
Fingerprint: e9393a5e967a031f75b3796fcb55e7fac86d208e8fc90dfc14687b46a0674df6

## 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: 2026-07-15 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration)
First detected:    2026-07-17 07:46:56 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker)
First reported:    2026-07-17 08:50:45 UTC (abuse notice filed)
Last verified:     2026-07-23 00:20:35 UTC
Neutralised:       2026-07-21 00:12:26 UTC
Current status:    taken down (registrar suspended or DNS dead)

## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence)
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URLScan.io:       https://urlscan.io/result/019f6e9c-42b6-740c-b1da-794ef4c01544/
URLQuery:         https://urlquery.net/report/70dc66bd-43bd-4239-89dd-ca60375e8efd
Wayback Machine:  https://web.archive.org/web/*/incentives-aave.xyz
crt.sh CT logs:   https://crt.sh/?q=%25.incentives-aave.xyz
Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=incentives-aave.xyz
AlienVault OTX:   https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/incentives-aave.xyz
URLhaus:          https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/incentives-aave.xyz/

## ANALYST NARRATIVE
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[Generated: 2026-07-17 08:01:00 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.]

incentives-aave.xyz Fake Aave Alert

The domain incentives-aave.xyz was registered on July 15, 2026 through Dynadot Inc and is currently active. It is delegated to the Cloudflare authoritative servers adam.ns.cloudflare.com and danica.ns.cloudflare.com and resolves to the IP address 104.21.44.171, which is consistent with Cloudflare edge infrastructure. VirusTotal records indicate the domain has been scanned by 91 security vendors, none of which have raised a detection; this observation does not constitute a safety guarantee. Intelligence classifies the site as a brand_impersonation campaign targeting the cryptocurrency platform Aave, with the risk level marked as under_investigation. No public content analysis or payload information is available, so the exact malicious behavior of the site remains unknown. Defenders should treat the domain as potentially malicious, enforce network‑level blocking or sink‑holing, and incorporate the domain and its resolving IP into threat‑intel feeds. Continuous monitoring for changes in hosting, DNS records, or additional vendor detections is recommended.

## EVIDENCE HASHES
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PhishDestroy Case ID:  PD-20260717-33B8C2
TLS cert SHA-256:      e9393a5e967a031f75b3796fcb55e7fac86d208e8fc90dfc14687b46a0674df6

## 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/incentives-aave.xyz/
JSON API:          https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=incentives-aave.xyz
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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