# PhishDestroy threat dossier — instantminers.com ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-08-01 13:23:32 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/instantminers.com/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 4/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar AlienVault OTX: 2 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions) Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 212.28.189.136 (US, St Louis) ASN: AS40021 Contabo Inc. Hosting org: Contabo GmbH Registrar: Atak Domain Nameservers: ns1.smallestgee.com, ns2.smallestgee.com Registered: 2025-07-07 Expires: 2027-07-07 Page title: Instant Miners | Access a Wealth of Trading Opportunities HTTP response: 200 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Let's Encrypt / YR1 Expires: 2026-09-22 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: 2f3c08c526362e0bf925542fe073af79f1a19d2703f3f2c88d666409c4379abb ## 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: 2025-07-07 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-27 06:56:19 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) First reported: 2026-07-27 07:28:05 UTC (abuse notice filed) Last verified: 2026-08-01 12:29:37 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019fa2c0-0c4d-7078-b371-c4967aaeb82d/ URLQuery: https://urlquery.net/report/bfb76a18-4c15-4f6a-9df9-7a2371b7ba99 Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/instantminers.com crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.instantminers.com Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=instantminers.com AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/instantminers.com URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/instantminers.com/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-27 06:57:33 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] instantminers.com Generic Phishing Domain Alert instantminers.com is currently identified as an active phishing threat and remains under investigation as of July 27, 2026. The domain was registered on July 07, 2025 through Atak Domain and is configured with the nameservers ns1.smallestgee.com and ns2.smallestgee.com. It resolves to the IPv4 address 212.28.189.136. At present, the domain appears on one major security blocklist, specifically PhishDestroy, indicating that at least one security vendor has assessed this domain as malicious or suspicious. VirusTotal has scanned the domain with 91 vendors; none currently flag it, but the absence of detections does not confirm the domain's safety. There is no available evidence regarding the specific content, scam type, or targeted brand associated with instantminers.com. No information about SSL configuration, HTTP status, or trust scores has been provided, and the site’s page title remains unexamined. The precise nature of the phishing operation is therefore not yet established. The use of a relatively obscure registrar and nameservers may warrant further scrutiny, as these can sometimes be linked to malicious infrastructure clusters. Defenders should maintain monitoring of instantminers.com for any changes in detection status, hosting infrastructure, or content. Any traffic to or from this domain should be treated with caution until a more detailed analysis of its activity and intent is completed. Network administrators are advised to block communications with 212.28.189.136 and the associated domain as a precautionary measure while the investigation is ongoing. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- PhishDestroy Case ID: PD-20260727-A70A9B Favicon MD5: 2461bae9fa94e9ba37ace13c2c41292e TLS cert SHA-256: 2f3c08c526362e0bf925542fe073af79f1a19d2703f3f2c88d666409c4379abb ## 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/instantminers.com/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=instantminers.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: 195,858 domains (90,613 alive under monitoring, 27,318 confirmed neutralized). Site: https://phishdestroy.io