Domain security and threat intelligence

istardust.io

“Buy & Sell Bitcoin, Ethereum | Cryptocurrency Exchange | IstarDust”

Threat verdict Critical 88/100 evidence score

Availability Last known active Latest stored reachability observation

Risk signals

VirusTotal detections: 6/89 Spamhaus DBL: DBL_PHISH Brand impersonation: Unknown Last known active

OTX: 4 refs Sep 10, 2026 Unknown CDN

Actions API

Evidence Summary

CRITICAL

PhishDestroy first observed istardust.io on Sep 10, 2026. Stored content metadata identifies Unknown as the apparent target. The captured page title is “Buy & Sell Bitcoin, Ethereum | Cryptocurrency Exchange | IstarDust”. Page analysis recorded additional brand references to Across and Ethereum. Stored page analysis classifies the content as impersonation. Campaign clustering links the hostname to the Unknown kit. Current evidence score: 88/100 (critical).

Positive findings are stored from 2 sources: VirusTotal and Spamhaus DBL. VirusTotal recorded 6 detections among 89 engines: alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar on Sep 18, 2026 at 17:33 UTC. Spamhaus DBL: DBL_PHISH on Sep 16, 2026 at 18:30 UTC. Non-positive and contextual checks: AlienVault OTX listed 4 community pulse references (not vendor detections) on Sep 18, 2026 at 17:34 UTC. The separate external-blocklist snapshot contained no matches on Sep 21, 2026 at 02:20 UTC. Google Safe Browsing returned no flag on Sep 19, 2026 at 22:01 UTC. URLScan completed without a malicious verdict (score 0) on Sep 17, 2026 at 03:30 UTC.

HTTP 200 was recorded on Sep 21, 2026 at 01:35 UTC. At collection time, the hostname resolved to 104.21.95.177 on AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc.). The IP and ASN identify shared Cloudflare edge infrastructure; the origin server is not established by this address. DOM analysis on Sep 16, 2026 at 22:20 UTC returned 88/100. The evidence archive retains 2 visual captures from PhishDestroy and URLScan. TLS metadata lists Let's Encrypt / YE2 as the certificate issuer with validity through Nov 14, 2026; checked Sep 16, 2026 at 19:02 UTC.

The content indicators and 2 positive source findings support the current Unknown-themed impersonation classification.

VirusTotal

6 det.

OTX references

4 community refs

URLScan

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TLS Certificate

Let's Encrypt / YE2

Observed status

Last known active 200

DestroyList

Listed

Data coverage VirusTotal 6 / 89 OTX 4 community references CF Radar scan completed URLScan capture stored report URLScan verdict Analysis completed TLS valid certificate, 54d WHOIS not parsed Screenshot 2 captures · 2 sources

Forensic History & Detection Timeline

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Threat First Observed Sep 16, 2026 · 19:33 UTC

Domain ingestion complete. Initial state is marked as alive.

Threat Response Pipeline

Discovery

Checks

Reports

Availability

11/13

URLScan.io Capture

Stored URLScan report with capture artifacts

Sep 17, 2026

URLScan Verdict

URLScan analysis completed; this web-capture result does not change the page threat verdict · score 0

Sep 17, 2026

Cloudflare Radar Report

A stored Cloudflare Radar report is available. The report link alone is not a malicious verdict and does not prove that every network field was captured.

VirusTotal

6/89 recorded on VirusTotal

Sep 18, 2026

Google Safe Browsing

Checked via Google Transparency Report

Sep 20, 2026

OTX Community References

4 community publication references on AlienVault OTX. References are not vendor verdicts and are excluded from the evidence score.

Sep 18, 2026

Brand Impersonation

Impersonation of Unknown

Forensic Evidence Collected

Stored evidence from URLScan.io, stored screenshot

Sep 17, 2026

Technical Analysis Recorded

The report contains stored technology or forensic-analysis results.

Sep 21, 2026

Public Blocklist Status

Evasion analysis

Cloaking & traffic-distribution check

Stored crawler-versus-browser observations for this host, plus a live fingerprint check for Keitaro-style traffic distribution systems.

Stored cloaking flag: Not yet scanned
Last cloaking scan: 2026-09-21 03:35:03 UTC
Server header seen by scanner: cloudflare

Scanner note: alive_content: raw=ok; http=200; via=https_proxy; server=cloudflare

Live TDS fingerprint check

Seven Keitaro fingerprints plus a crawler-versus-browser comparison, run from the PhishDestroy scanner when this section scrolls into view.

Waiting

Stored Capture · 2 sources

Screenshot of istardust.io — **Primary capture**2026-09-17 08:14 UTC 1 / 2

SourcePrimary capture

Captured2026-09-17 08:14 UTC

StateStored capture

Position1 / 2

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Domain Intelligence

Domain

URLScan Verdict Analysis completed score 0 report ↗

Server / ASN cloudflare · AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.

IP Reputation abuse score 0/100 0 reports checked Sep 16, 2026

OTX Tags 2026-09activeall-domainsblocklistcontentcryptodomainsdrainerfraudlivemonthlyphishdestroyphishingscam

HTTP Status200

Technical detailsDNS, SSL SANs, timestamps

First DetectedSep 10, 2026

DOM Analysisanalyzed Sep 17, 2026score 88/1002 brand signals

IoC Extractionscanned Sep 17, 20260 wallet · 0 Telegram IoCs

TLS Fingerprint

TLS Observationvalid from Aug 16, 2026scanned Sep 16, 2026

Favicon Hash

Page Title

Buy & Sell Bitcoin, Ethereum | Cryptocurrency Exchange | IstarDust

Impersonates

Across Ethereum

TLS Certificate

Valid transport encryption · Issued by Let's Encrypt / YE2 · valid for 54 days

Technologies · 3 identified

jQuery

JavaScript libraries

Cloudflare

CDN

HTTP/3

Miscellaneous

Detected via Cloudflare Radar · Wappalyzer engine

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VirusTotal Analysis

6 / 89 security vendors flagged this domain

View on VT

Last analyzed 2026-09-18 19:33:21 UTC First positive detection 2026-09-16 19:41:18 UTC Previous stored snapshot: 6 detections

alphaMountain.ai

CRDF

Forcepoint ThreatSeeker

Fortinet

Gridinsoft

SOCRadar

Community intelligence

2 community reports

CategoryPIGBUTCHERING

I was offered an arbitrage opportunity by a trading group I've been a part of for more than 6 months, I joined in, and after trading a few times was told to do my KYC to do the withdrawal, all of a sudden, I'm forced to basically givey identification which at first I thought was

Evidence & External Reports

Security Analysis

URLScan Analyzed VirusTotal 6 det. ChainPatrol ChainAbuse 2 reports URLQuery Open lookup SSL Labs Stored TLS valid CF Radar Open report OTX 4 refs WOT ScamAdviser Blacklist Checker URLVoid Sucuri SiteCheck MDN Observatory

Community Scam Report — ChainAbuse

2 reports filed for istardust.io (1 written by a person) · category: Pigbutchering · source checked 2026-09-21 04:42:08 UTC

“I was offered an arbitrage opportunity by a trading group I've been a part of for more than 6 months, I joined in, and after trading a few times was told to do my KYC to do the withdrawal, all of a sudden, I'm forced to basically givey identification which at first I thought was well normal, then it forced me at the end of the KYC to send more money to get my money back, which was when I knew was a scam”

— reported by Anonymous on Sep 9, 2026 · Source: ChainAbuse (TRM Labs) — full report and evidence there.

OSINT & Intelligence

Web-Check Full scan SOCRadar Dark web report LeakIX Leak search Shodan Censys ThreatFox Hudson Rock Sign-in search IntelX crt.sh Certs WHOIS Wayback

DNS & Network

nslookup.io DNS bgp.tools ASN/Route

SEO & Domain

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istardust.io

Evidence Summary

Forensic History & Detection Timeline

Threat Response Pipeline

Public Blocklist Status

Cloaking & traffic-distribution check

Stored Capture · 2 sources

Domain Intelligence

VirusTotal Analysis

Community intelligence