# PhishDestroy threat dossier — nexus-rewards.xyz ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-30 05:14:34 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/nexus-rewards.xyz/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) Scam classification: Credential Phishing ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 5/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar AlienVault OTX: 4 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions) Public blocklists: listed on 3 independent blocklists ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 188.114.96.3 (CA, Toronto) ASN: AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. Hosting org: CloudFlare, 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: ["hank.ns.cloudflare.com", "virginia.ns.cloudflare.com"] Page title: Just a moment... ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Let's Encrypt / YE1 Expires: 2026-10-17 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: 3b5c385dfc9da873c7df525fa4fcb8eba0c0e4d05f854f084980efa390e06f56 ## 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- First detected: 2026-07-27 15:03:08 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) Last verified: 2026-07-30 04:20:23 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-27 15:05:36 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] nexus-rewards.xyz Phishing – Credential Harvesting Analysis of nexus-rewards.xyz as of July 27, 2026 indicates that the domain is actively being used for a phishing operation. The domain was registered through NameSilo, LLC, and is hosted on Cloudflare infrastructure, as evidenced by the authoritative nameservers hank.ns.cloudflare.com and virginia.ns.cloudflare.com. The site returns an HTTP 403 status code, which suggests that direct content retrieval is being blocked, a technique often employed to hide malicious landing pages from automated scanners while still serving targeted victims. Reputation data shows that nexus-rewards.xyz appears on three independent security blocklists, and it has been explicitly blocked by commercial anti‑phishing services PhishDestroy, MetaMask, and SEAL. VirusTotal scans have returned five positive detections out of ninety‑one scanners, confirming that multiple security vendors have identified malicious activity associated with the host. The limited number of detections, combined with the blocklist presence, points to a campaign that may be evading some detection engines while still triggering alerts on others. The available intelligence does not reveal the specific brand or service being impersonated, nor does it provide a page title or SSL certificate details, so the exact phishing lure remains unknown. Likewise, no IP geolocation, ASN, or additional hosting metadata have been disclosed, limiting the ability to attribute the infrastructure beyond the Cloudflare edge. Defenders should block nexus-rewards.xyz at the DNS and proxy layers, incorporate the domain into existing phishing‑filter rule sets, and monitor for any outbound connections to the associated Cloudflare nameservers. Organizations using email filters should ensure that URLs pointing to this domain are quarantined or rejected. Given the active status and the observed blocklist and vendor detections, continued surveillance is recommended to capture any evolution of the payload or changes in hosting configuration. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- TLS cert SHA-256: 3b5c385dfc9da873c7df525fa4fcb8eba0c0e4d05f854f084980efa390e06f56 ## 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/nexus-rewards.xyz/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=nexus-rewards.xyz 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: 195,572 domains (93,397 alive under monitoring, 99,913 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io