# PhishDestroy threat dossier — nowpayments.live ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-14 05:13:50 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/nowpayments.live/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- TAKEN DOWN (neutralised) Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) Scam classification: Brand Impersonation ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 2/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: Gridinsoft, SOCRadar AlienVault OTX: 1 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions) Public blocklists: listed on 3 independent blocklists ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 172.67.145.38 (US, San Francisco) ASN: AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. Hosting org: AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. Registrar: PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com Nameservers: adam.ns.cloudflare.com, danica.ns.cloudflare.com Registered: 2026-07-01 Expires: 2027-07-01 Page title: NOWPayments HTTP response: 200 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Google Trust Services / WE1 Expires: 2026-09-29 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: d0c20d1896041e961cf83dfc0832b65db78d7712427c1976255bba0930af882a ## ABUSE-REPORT HISTORY (evidence of registrar non-response) ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Domain registered: 2026-07-01 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-05 15:59:12 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) Last verified: 2026-07-14 04:20:38 UTC Neutralised: 2026-07-06 00:01:07 UTC Current status: taken down (registrar suspended or DNS dead) ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019f3292-c131-7368-9d75-dbfa0ba16abc/ Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/nowpayments.live crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.nowpayments.live Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=nowpayments.live AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/nowpayments.live URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/nowpayments.live/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-05 16:04:38 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] This domain, nowpayments.live, is flagged as an active phishing site specifically designed to impersonate the legitimate cryptocurrency payment gateway NOWPayments. Analysis indicates the site is engineered to harvest wallet credentials and facilitate unauthorized fund transfers, operating under the guise of a trusted crypto service provider. The domain remains accessible and has not yet been widely recognized as malicious by security vendors. Infrastructure analysis reveals the domain was registered on July 01, 2026, through PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com. It resolves to the IP address 172.67.145.38, which is associated with a content delivery network. The site presents a page title of NOWPayments, reinforcing the brand impersonation. As of the latest scan, the domain has been flagged by 0 of 95 VirusTotal vendors, indicating minimal detection at this stage. The SSL certificate is issued by Google Trust Services, providing a superficial layer of legitimacy to unsuspecting users. Current status shows the domain remains active and operational. Organizations and individuals are advised to block the domain and associated IP address at the network perimeter. Users should verify payment requests through official channels only and avoid entering sensitive information on unverified platforms. Security teams are encouraged to monitor for connections to 172.67.145.38 and submit the domain for re-evaluation by threat intelligence platforms to improve detection coverage. [Updates since narrative was generated:] - VirusTotal detections: now 2/91 (narrative was written when count was lower) ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- Favicon MD5: e9096426e14c337243ebb0375ee72a33 TLS cert SHA-256: d0c20d1896041e961cf83dfc0832b65db78d7712427c1976255bba0930af882a ## 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/nowpayments.live/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=nowpayments.live 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: 178,335 domains (50,012 alive under monitoring, 128,323 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io