# PhishDestroy threat dossier — io-exchange.cloud ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-15 15:43:39 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/io-exchange.cloud/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) Scam classification: Fake Exchange ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 4/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, Fortinet, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar AlienVault OTX: 1 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions) Public blocklists: listed on 3 independent blocklists ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 188.114.97.3 (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: june.ns.cloudflare.com, nikon.ns.cloudflare.com Registered: 2026-07-10 Expires: 2027-07-10 Page title: Just a moment... HTTP response: 403 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Google Trust Services / WE1 Expires: 2026-10-08 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: 3aefc1eb89d4bece243d0a6ba1ccfe104300f670de4bc831ebaca3a0889613b2 ## 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: 2026-07-10 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-13 23:11:03 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) Last verified: 2026-07-15 16:20:46 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019f5d50-b283-733d-a149-b290d0649941/ Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/io-exchange.cloud crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.io-exchange.cloud Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=io-exchange.cloud AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/io-exchange.cloud URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/io-exchange.cloud/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-13 23:20:40 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] This domain is flagged as a generic phishing threat and is currently under investigation. The domain io-exchange.cloud was registered on July 10, 2026, through NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED, a registrar known for low-cost and often anonymous domain registrations. It resolves to IP address 188.114.97.3 and uses Cloudflare nameservers (june.ns.cloudflare.com and nikon.ns.cloudflare.com), which may provide CDN and DDoS protection, common in phishing operations to obscure the true hosting origin. The domain is still active as of the report date, July 13, 2026. No specific brand, page title, or scam type has been identified beyond the generic phishing classification, and the exact content of the site has not been analyzed. Defenders should treat this domain as suspicious: block access at the network level, monitor for any outbound traffic to the IP or domain, and flag any emails referencing io-exchange.cloud as potential phishing. Further investigation is warranted to determine if the domain hosts credential harvesting pages or redirects to other malicious infrastructure. No VirusTotal scan data is available for this domain, so that cannot be used to assess risk. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- Favicon MD5: 11e815fcc46522874043fec1a1423f31 TLS cert SHA-256: 3aefc1eb89d4bece243d0a6ba1ccfe104300f670de4bc831ebaca3a0889613b2 ## 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/io-exchange.cloud/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=io-exchange.cloud 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: 179,201 domains (50,731 alive under monitoring, 128,470 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io