# PhishDestroy threat dossier — mercotrustees.com ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-29 06:12:37 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/mercotrustees.com/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT Composite threat score: 95/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 6/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Fortinet, Gridinsoft, Netcraft, SOCRadar AlienVault OTX: 2 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions) Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 79.133.41.61 (DE, Frankfurt am Main) ASN: AS214036 Ultahost, Inc. Hosting org: UltaHost Inc Registrar: NameSilo, LLC !!! REGISTRAR INTEGRITY ALERT — NameSilo !!! NameSilo is a registrar documented by PhishDestroy as (1) publicly lying about received abuse reports, (2) shielding a $20M+ Monero-theft operation (xmrwallet.com) for 10 continuous years, and (3) retaliating against PhishDestroy by getting our X/Twitter account @Phish_Destroy banned after we published the evidence. Researchers/victims must ALWAYS CC compliance@icann.org on every abuse ticket — NameSilo has a track record of later claiming reports were never received. Primary sources: https://phishdestroy.io/namesilo-killed-our-twitter https://phishdestroy.io/xmrwallet-namesilo-exposed Nameservers: ns1.ultahost.com, ns2.ultahost.com, ns3.ultahost.com, ns4.ultahost.com Registered: 2025-01-21 Expires: 2027-01-21 Page title: One moment, please... HTTP response: 200 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Let's Encrypt / YR1 Expires: 2026-10-22 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: dfa5cdd19642b66c0dc2ef59d03ac29a3c3f87ced6531df9dea66e05ffba19c3 Subject Alternative Names (related infrastructure — often same operator): - cpanel.mercotrustees.com - cpcalendars.mercotrustees.com - cpcontacts.mercotrustees.com - mail.mercotrustees.com - webdisk.mercotrustees.com - webmail.mercotrustees.com - www.mercotrustees.com ## 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: 2025-01-21 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-27 06:51:05 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) First reported: 2026-07-27 07:59:06 UTC (abuse notice filed) Last verified: 2026-07-29 04:24:11 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019fa1f5-97ed-7789-aafa-07dc43dc3b23/ URLQuery: https://urlquery.net/report/9365236e-cf38-44b5-914a-dd57e442c931 Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/mercotrustees.com crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.mercotrustees.com Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=mercotrustees.com AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/mercotrustees.com URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/mercotrustees.com/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-27 06:51:47 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] mercotrustees.com — Phishing Investigation Report Analysis indicates that mercotrustees.com is currently active and appears on a single security blocklist. The domain resolves to the IPv4 address 79.133.41.61 and was registered on January 21, 2025 through NameSilo, LLC. The authoritative name servers listed for the zone are ns1.ultahost.com, ns2.ultahost.com, ns3.ultahost.com, and ns4.ultahost.com, suggesting hosting under the ultahost.com provider. The domain has been flagged by the PhishDestroy blocklist, confirming that at least one anti‑phishing service has identified it as malicious. VirusTotal reports that the domain was scanned by 91 antivirus and URL‑reputation vendors; none of the scanners returned a positive detection at the time of analysis, but the absence of a detection does not imply the domain is benign. No public information is available regarding SSL certificates, HTTP response codes, page titles, or additional threat‑intel feeds such as OTX, limiting the ability to assess the detailed content or payload delivered by the site. Defenders should treat mercotrustees.com as a high‑confidence phishing indicator, add the domain and its resolving IP address to inbound and outbound deny lists, and monitor DNS query logs for any resolution attempts. Continuous re‑scanning with multi‑vendor services is advised to detect any future changes in the domain’s behavior. Organizations should also enforce user education that discourages interaction with unsolicited communications that may reference this domain, and incorporate the indicator into security information and event management (SIEM) rules to generate alerts on related activity. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- PhishDestroy Case ID: PD-20260727-BD449C Favicon MD5: b32a4c5259127e31c6021a43d437b8f1 TLS cert SHA-256: dfa5cdd19642b66c0dc2ef59d03ac29a3c3f87ced6531df9dea66e05ffba19c3 ## 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/mercotrustees.com/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=mercotrustees.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: 193,120 domains (82,957 alive under monitoring, 107,970 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io