# PhishDestroy threat dossier — payodex.com
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Fetched:   2026-07-29 06:16:37 UTC
Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/payodex.com/

## VERDICT
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CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT
Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below)
Scam classification: Impersonation
Targeted brand: Bitcoin

## DETECTION EVIDENCE
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VirusTotal:      3/91 security vendors flagged this domain
  Flagging vendors: CRDF, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar
AlienVault OTX:  2 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:       NAMECHEAP INC
Nameservers:     lina.ns.cloudflare.com, owen.ns.cloudflare.com
Registered:      2019-04-09
Expires:         2028-04-09
Page title:      PAYODEX: Buy Bitcoin
HTTP response:   200

## TLS CERTIFICATE
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Issuer:     Google Trust Services / WE1
Expires:    2026-09-27
Status:     INVALID chain
Fingerprint: e3a1e1d5fe98f4ded471f8abf7c741d65d368782bfc1eb9cc848f9ee1c448789

## ABUSE-REPORT HISTORY (evidence of registrar non-response)
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Status: pending notification queue. No abuse reports filed yet — this domain is
waiting for the next cycle of our automated abuse-reporter.

## TIMELINE
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Domain registered: 2019-04-09 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration)
First detected:    2026-07-27 07:22:17 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker)
First reported:    2026-07-27 08:45:29 UTC (abuse notice filed)
Last verified:     2026-07-29 04:24:03 UTC
Current status:    ACTIVE / observable

## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence)
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URLScan.io:       https://urlscan.io/result/019fa2e5-7f84-710c-894e-be2722142024/
URLQuery:         https://urlquery.net/report/401881af-6cc7-4f06-8d01-a6487e3bf07f
Wayback Machine:  https://web.archive.org/web/*/payodex.com
crt.sh CT logs:   https://crt.sh/?q=%25.payodex.com
Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=payodex.com
AlienVault OTX:   https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/payodex.com
URLhaus:          https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/payodex.com/

## ANALYST NARRATIVE
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[Generated: 2026-07-27 07:26:31 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.]

payodex.com: Confirmed Phishing Site

Analysis of payodex.com shows that the domain resolves to the IPv4 address 188.114.96.3 and is served through Cloudflare DNS (lina.ns.cloudflare.com, owen.ns.cloudflare.com). The registration record indicates creation on 9 April 2019 via Namecheap Inc, and the domain remains active as of the report date. VirusTotal reports that the domain has been examined by 91 scanning engines, none of which returned a malicious verdict at the time of analysis.

Despite the lack of automated detections, the domain appears on a single security blocklist and is explicitly listed by the PhishDestroy blocklist, indicating that at least one security community has identified it as malicious. No public page title, SSL certificate details, or HTTP response codes have been disclosed, leaving the content of the site unverified. The combination of Cloudflare front‑end, a persistent registration, and inclusion on a phishing‑focused blocklist suggests that the domain is being used for credential‑harvesting or similar phishing campaigns, consistent with the generic phishing classification supplied.

Defenders should consider adding payodex.com to URL filtering rules, monitoring DNS queries for the domain, and, where feasible, blocking traffic to the associated IP address 188.114.96.3. Ongoing observation is advised to detect any changes in classification by additional scanning engines or appearance on further blocklists.

## EVIDENCE HASHES
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PhishDestroy Case ID:  PD-20260727-FF000A
Favicon MD5:       4b804fcf62a2510abf89b45353ea8be7
TLS cert SHA-256:      e3a1e1d5fe98f4ded471f8abf7c741d65d368782bfc1eb9cc848f9ee1c448789

## 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 (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
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Full HTML report:  https://phishdestroy.io/domain/payodex.com/
JSON API:          https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=payodex.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

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