# PhishDestroy threat dossier — pepe-bets.com
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Fetched:   2026-07-24 22:06:24 UTC
Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/pepe-bets.com/

## VERDICT
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CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT
Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below)

## DETECTION EVIDENCE
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VirusTotal:      5/91 security vendors flagged this domain
  Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Fortinet, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar
AlienVault OTX:  2 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions)
Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist

## INFRASTRUCTURE
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IP address:      104.21.94.53 (CA, Toronto)
ASN:             AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
Hosting org:     Cloudflare, Inc.
Registrar:       NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED

!!! REGISTRAR INTEGRITY ALERT — NiceNIC !!!
NiceNIC International: over 90% of its registered domains are associated with
illegal content; documented systematic abuse-report non-response. Primary sources:
  https://phishdestroy.io/nicenic-real
  https://phishdestroy.io/nicenic-verdict

Nameservers:     ["ali.ns.cloudflare.com", "guss.ns.cloudflare.com"]
HTTP response:   301

## TLS CERTIFICATE
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Issuer:     Let's Encrypt / E7
Expires:    2026-08-26
Status:     INVALID chain
Fingerprint: 88917207beae55becaf637645622912751906be710cdf5adcd4854eb42fde8e5

## 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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First detected:    2026-07-19 12:38:19 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker)
Last verified:     2026-07-24 20:20:23 UTC
Current status:    ACTIVE / observable

## ANALYST NARRATIVE
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[Generated: 2026-07-20 00:33:21 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.]

pepe-bets.com — Phishing Investigation Report

pepe-bets.com is currently flagged as a high‑risk generic phishing site. VirusTotal reports that five of ninety‑one scanning engines have issued detections against the domain, indicating a non‑trivial level of malicious activity. HTTP requests return a 301 redirect, and the site is listed on a single public blocklist. The domain is actively blocked by the PhishDestroy service. Registration data shows the domain was created through NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED and is protected by a Let’s Encrypt certificate (issuer E7). Both authoritative name servers belong to Cloudflare (ali.ns.cloudflare.com, guss.ns.cloudflare.com), and the domain resolves to the Cloudflare edge address 104.21.94.53, which maps to a location in Canada. AlienVault OTX has referenced the domain in two separate threat‑intel pulses, reinforcing its association with phishing campaigns. No further content analysis is available, so the exact phishing lure or credential‑harvesting mechanism remains unknown. Defenders should add pepe‑bets.com to blocklists, enforce DNS filtering of the 104.21.94.53 address, and monitor for any future redirects or payloads. Continuous re‑scanning on VirusTotal and correlation with OTX pulses are recommended to track changes in detection status.

## EVIDENCE HASHES
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TLS cert SHA-256:      88917207beae55becaf637645622912751906be710cdf5adcd4854eb42fde8e5

## 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/pepe-bets.com/
JSON API:          https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=pepe-bets.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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