# PhishDestroy threat dossier — penguboxverse.com ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-22 04:05:00 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/penguboxverse.com/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- TAKEN DOWN (neutralised) Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) Scam classification: Crypto Scam Targeted brand: Ethereum (and: ledger, solana) ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 3/93 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, Fortinet, Webroot Public blocklists: listed on 2 independent blocklists ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 104.21.16.1 (US, San Francisco) ASN: ASAS13335 CLOUDFLARENET, US Hosting org: AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. Registered: 2026-02-21 Page title: Claim Your $PENGU | Pudgy Penguins ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: WE1 Status: INVALID chain ## 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: 2026-02-21 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-02-26 23:19:27 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) First reported: 2026-02-26 23:19:27 UTC (abuse notice filed) Last verified: 2026-07-22 04:21:07 UTC Neutralised: 2026-04-22 00:26:28 UTC Current status: taken down (registrar suspended or DNS dead) ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019848ee-9f56-76cb-bce6-3bd6a202b803/ Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/penguboxverse.com crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.penguboxverse.com Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=penguboxverse.com AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/penguboxverse.com URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/penguboxverse.com/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-06-24 06:11:34 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] penguboxverse.com Phishing Intelligence Report - PhishDestroy The domain penguboxverse.com is a cryptocurrency scam site that impersonates the Ethereum brand, specifically targeting the Pudgy Penguins community with a fake "Claim Your $PENGU" offer. The site poses a direct financial threat by attempting to trick users into connecting their wallets or providing credentials under the guise of claiming a token airdrop, leading to potential theft of cryptocurrency assets. Technical evidence shows the site was flagged by 3 out of 95 VirusTotal vendors, including alphaMountain.ai, Fortinet, and Webroot. It appears on 2 blocklists. The domain was created on 2026-02-21, uses the IP address 104.21.16.1 located in the United States, hosted by AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. The SSL certificate is WE1. GridinSoft assigns a trust rating of 0/100, and the domain risk score is 56. The site is currently offline or down. Based on the low trust rating, active vendor detections, and high domain risk score, the threat level is assessed as high for users who may have previously interacted with the site. No further action is possible as the site is no longer accessible. [Updates since narrative was generated:] - VirusTotal detections: now 3/93 (narrative was written when count was lower) ## 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/penguboxverse.com/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=penguboxverse.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: 187,720 domains (57,297 alive under monitoring, 128,779 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io