# PhishDestroy threat dossier — penowex.com ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-31 19:41:24 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/penowex.com/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- HIGH THREAT — malicious activity confirmed Composite threat score: 64/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) Targeted brand: sei (and: x.com) ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 6/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, Bfore.Ai PreCrime, BitDefender, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, G-Data, Kaspersky Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 188.114.96.3 (CA, Toronto) ASN: AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. Hosting org: CloudFlare, Inc. Registrar: MAT BAO CORPORATION Nameservers: fay.ns.cloudflare.com, guss.ns.cloudflare.com Registered: 2026-03-28 Expires: 2027-03-28 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Let's Encrypt / YE2 Expires: 2026-10-22 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: ca5dd4c806c12395de6e4b4bf098cdbc5567dec976813fb5c5ac4bbc2341d6e5 ## 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Domain registered: 2026-03-28 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-31 20:01:03 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) First reported: 2026-07-31 18:42:06 UTC (abuse notice filed) Last verified: 2026-07-31 21:02:08 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019fb956-05dc-76da-8107-f649ec113285/ URLQuery: https://urlquery.net/report/fae9ecc5-ee89-4fd6-aeb3-db55c630be92 Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/penowex.com crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.penowex.com Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=penowex.com AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/penowex.com URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/penowex.com/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-31 20:02:32 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] penowex.com: Confirmed Phishing Site Analysis of the domain penowex.com shows it was registered on 28 March 2026 through MAT BAO CORPORATION and is hosted on Cloudflare infrastructure, using the authoritative name servers fay.ns.cloudflare.com and guss.ns.cloudflare.com. The domain resolves to the IP address 188.114.96.3, which is part of Cloudflare's edge network and does not reveal the underlying hosting provider. VirusTotal reports that six of ninety‑one antivirus and URL‑reputation scanners have flagged the domain as malicious, indicating that a subset of security products have identified it as a phishing vector. The domain appears on at least one public blocklist and is actively blocked by the PhishDestroy service, confirming that downstream defenses are already recognizing it as a threat. The available data does not include a page title, SSL certificate details, HTTP response codes, or any observed payload, so the exact content served by the site remains unknown. Nevertheless, the combination of recent registration, Cloudflare name‑server usage, detection by multiple vendors, and inclusion on blocklists meets the criteria for a high‑risk generic phishing operation. Defenders should add penowex.com to URL filtering and DNS‑sinkhole policies, monitor outbound traffic for connections to 188.114.96.3, and ensure that email gateways flag any messages containing this domain. Incident response teams should also consider quarantining any credentials or session cookies that may have been submitted to the site, and threat‑intel sharing platforms should be updated with the indicators of compromise identified here. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- PhishDestroy Case ID: PD-20260731-A11DDD Favicon MD5: b0d61bf5127702140c7ee322e7aed456 TLS cert SHA-256: ca5dd4c806c12395de6e4b4bf098cdbc5567dec976813fb5c5ac4bbc2341d6e5 ## 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/penowex.com/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=penowex.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: 196,669 domains (84,388 alive under monitoring, 27,268 confirmed neutralized). Site: https://phishdestroy.io