# PhishDestroy threat dossier — nexus-market.nexus
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Fetched:   2026-06-21 17:04:33 UTC
Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/nexus-market.nexus/

## VERDICT
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TAKEN DOWN (neutralised)
Composite threat score: 53/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below)

## DETECTION EVIDENCE
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VirusTotal:      3/92 security vendors flagged this domain
  Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, Fortinet, Gridinsoft
AlienVault OTX:  1 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions)
Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist

## INFRASTRUCTURE
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IP address:      188.114.96.3 (CA, Toronto)
ASN:             AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
Hosting org:     CloudFlare, Inc.
Registrar:       Tucows Domains Inc
Nameservers:     ["andronicus.ns.cloudflare.com", "diana.ns.cloudflare.com"]
Registered:      2026-05-14
Page title:      Nexus Market — Official Nexus Darknet Market [2026]

## TLS CERTIFICATE
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Issuer:     Google Trust Services / WE1
Expires:    2026-08-04
Status:     INVALID chain
Fingerprint: bc94a7424acd0e074ecdd5167baa185d5c8614234df6218cc0c5066cd341654e

## ABUSE-REPORT HISTORY (evidence of registrar non-response)
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Status: CLOSED — no report required.
This domain was neutralised before the abuse-report cycle could be dispatched — either
the hosting provider / registrar suspended it on their own, the DNS went dead, or the
operator abandoned the infrastructure. PhishDestroy keeps the evidence bundle on file
for audit but no formal notice was sent.

## TIMELINE
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Domain registered: 2026-05-14 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration)
First detected:    2026-05-14 07:00:07 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker)
First reported:    2026-06-15 06:37:44 UTC (abuse notice filed)
Last verified:     2026-06-21 16:20:35 UTC
Neutralised:       2026-05-14 20:59:14 UTC
Current status:    taken down (registrar suspended or DNS dead)

## ANALYST NARRATIVE
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[Generated: 2026-06-18 16:58:54 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.]

PhishDestroy identifies nexus-market.nexus as a generic phishing domain, impersonating the Nexus Market brand, with no known drainer kit associated with it. The domain has a VirusTotal score of 3/95, is registered through Tucows Domains Inc, resolves to IP 188.114.96.3, was created on May 14, 2026, and has a Google Trust Services SSL certificate, while also being listed on 1 security blocklist. 

 The technical indicators suggest a potentially malicious intent, with the domain being flagged by a limited number of security vendors, and its recent creation date raises concerns about its legitimacy. 

 Despite being taken offline, nexus-market.nexus still poses an elevated risk, and users should remain cautious, as the domain's intentions and associations are not entirely clear, and its presence on a security blocklist indicates a potential threat to users' security.

## EVIDENCE HASHES
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Favicon MD5:       8e480c58eb469b9fb36df98f30e89e06
TLS cert SHA-256:      bc94a7424acd0e074ecdd5167baa185d5c8614234df6218cc0c5066cd341654e

## SCORING METHODOLOGY
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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 (volunteer 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
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Full HTML report:  https://phishdestroy.io/domain/nexus-market.nexus/
JSON API:          https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=nexus-market.nexus
Appeal a flag:     https://phishdestroy.io/appeals/  (responded to within 48 hours, FP rate <0.01%)
Submit a report:   https://t.me/PhishDestroy_bot

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