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“Merbythe”

Threat verdict Critical 98/100 evidence score
Availability Last known active Latest stored reachability observation
Risk signals
VirusTotal detections: 12/89 Brand impersonation: Unknown Last known active
OTX: 5 refs Sep 7, 2026 Unknown CDN
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Security engines reporting a detection: 12. Exercise extreme caution — do not enter credentials or personal information.

Evidence Summary

CRITICAL
Score
98/100

PhishDestroy first observed merbytheap.com on Sep 7, 2026. Stored content metadata identifies Unknown as the apparent target. The captured page title is “Merbythe”. Stored page analysis classifies the content as impersonation. Campaign clustering links the hostname to the Unknown kit. Current evidence score: 98/100 (critical).

Positive findings are stored from 2 sources: VirusTotal and URLScan. VirusTotal recorded 12 detections among 89 engines: alphaMountain.ai, BitDefender, CRDF, ESET, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, G-Data, Kaspersky, LevelBlue, Netcraft, SOCRadar, Sophos on Sep 17, 2026 at 17:23 UTC. URLScan returned a malicious verdict with score 100; scan metadata assigned phishing as its category on Sep 19, 2026 at 03:30 UTC. Non-positive and contextual checks: AlienVault OTX listed 5 community pulse references (not vendor detections) on Sep 15, 2026 at 18:21 UTC. The separate external-blocklist snapshot contained no matches on Sep 20, 2026 at 18:20 UTC. Google Safe Browsing returned no flag on Sep 20, 2026 at 04:00 UTC.

HTTP 200 was recorded on Sep 20, 2026 at 10:00 UTC. Registration records for the domain list Realtime Register B.V. as the registrar and Jul 30, 2026 as the creation date. At collection time, the hostname resolved to 188.114.96.9 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 17, 2026 at 02:20 UTC returned 98/100. The evidence archive retains 1 visual capture from PhishDestroy. TLS metadata lists Google Trust Services / WE1 as the certificate issuer with validity through Oct 28, 2026; checked Sep 15, 2026 at 19:02 UTC.

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

VirusTotal
VirusTotal
12 det.
OTX references
5 community refs
URLScan
URLScan
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TLS Certificate
Google Trust Services / WE1
Age
2 mo New
Observed status
Last known active 200
PhishDestroy
DestroyList
Listed
Data coverage VirusTotal 12 / 89 OTX 5 community references CF Radar scan completed URLScan capture stored report URLScan verdict malicious TLS valid certificate, 37d WHOIS 2 mo old Screenshot external capture

Forensic History & Detection Timeline

This timeline displays historical security and status checkpoints observed by the PhishDestroy automated monitoring network. It records domain lifecycle updates, scanner changes, and threat telemetry over time.
  1. VirusTotal Detections Update Sep 17, 2026 · 12:08 UTC
    VirusTotal scanner detections updated from 8 to 12. Added scanner alerts: ESET, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, Sophos.
  2. Threat First Observed Sep 15, 2026 · 19:53 UTC
    Domain ingestion complete. Initial state is marked as alive.

Threat Response Pipeline

Discovery
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Availability
12/14

Public Blocklist Status

Evasion analysis

Cloaking & traffic-distribution check

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Stored cloaking flag
Not yet scanned
Last cloaking scan
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 · 1 source

Primary capture 1 / 1
SourcePrimary capture
Captured2026-09-17 08:16 UTC
StateStored capture
Position1 / 1
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Domain Intelligence

Domain
URLScan Verdict Malicious score 100 Phishing report ↗
Server / ASN cloudflare · AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
IP Reputation abuse score 0/100 0 reports checked Sep 15, 2026
Registrar Realtime
ICANN RegistryOfficial ICANN accredited-registrars →
WHOIS LookupICANN RDAP for merbytheap.com →
RegistrationCreated Jul 30, 2026 (52d · New)
HTTP Status200
Technical detailsDNS, SSL SANs, timestamps
First DetectedSep 7, 2026
DOM Analysisanalyzed Sep 17, 2026score 98/100
IoC Extractionscanned Sep 17, 20260 wallet · 0 Telegram IoCs
Nameserversnoah.ns.cloudflare.com
TLS Fingerprint
TLS Observationvalid from Jul 30, 2026scanned Sep 15, 2026
Favicon Hash
Page Title
Merbythe
TLS Certificate
Valid transport encryption · Issued by Google Trust Services / WE1 · valid for 37 days
Technologies · 4 identified
Detected via Cloudflare Radar · Wappalyzer engine
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VirusTotal Analysis

12 / 89 security vendors flagged this domain
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Last analyzed First positive detection Previous stored snapshot: 12 detections
alphaMountain.ai
BitDefender
CRDF
ESET
Forcepoint ThreatSeeker
Fortinet
G-Data
Kaspersky
LevelBlue
Netcraft
SOCRadar
Sophos
Site Performance Analysis

Google PageSpeed Insights — mobile performance audit of merbytheap.com · checked Sep 15, 2026

18
Poor
Performance
FCP
9.2s
First Contentful Paint
LCP
14.21s
Largest Contentful Paint
CLS
0.272
Cumulative Layout Shift
TBT
1226ms
Total Blocking Time
SI
10.61s
Speed Index
Powered by Google PageSpeed Insights · Mobile strategy · Scores: 90-100 Good 50-89 Needs Work 0-49 Poor

Community intelligence

1 community report

CategoryOTHER_INVESTMENT_SCAM

1. Summary A victim was induced by a fraudulent "investment/trading" platform to buy USDT and transfer it to an address controlled by the operation. The funds were moved, on-chain, through a single-use burner address into a high-volume automated consolidation wallet, then into a

Evidence & External Reports

Security Analysis
URLScan Malicious VirusTotal 12 det. ChainPatrol ChainAbuse 1 report URLQuery Open lookup SSL Labs Stored TLS valid CF Radar Open report OTX 5 refs WOT ScamAdviser Blacklist Checker URLVoid Sucuri SiteCheck MDN Observatory
Community Scam Report — ChainAbuse
1 report filed for merbytheap.com (1 written by a person) · category: Other Investment Scam · source checked
“1. Summary A victim was induced by a fraudulent "investment/trading" platform to buy USDT and transfer it to an address controlled by the operation. The funds were moved, on-chain, through a single-use burner address into a high-volume automated consolidation wallet, then into a large secondary consolidator (4,622 transfers), which cashes out to KYC-verified deposit addresses at Binance, Bitget, and Coinmania. The exchange deposit addresses at the end of this chain are the actionable endpoints”
— reported by Anonymous on Sep 7, 2026 · Source: ChainAbuse (TRM Labs) — full report and evidence there.
OSINT & Intelligence
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DNS & Network
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SEO & Domain
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