# PhishDestroy threat dossier — pepe-vault.xyz ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-29 15:02:34 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/pepe-vault.xyz/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT Composite threat score: 90/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 4/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 35.157.26.135 (DE, Frankfurt am Main) ASN: AS16509 Amazon.com, Inc. Hosting org: AWS EC2 (eu-central-1) Registrar: NameSilo, LLC !!! REGISTRAR INTEGRITY ALERT — NameSilo !!! NameSilo is a registrar documented by PhishDestroy as (1) publicly lying about received abuse reports, (2) shielding a $20M+ Monero-theft operation (xmrwallet.com) for 10 continuous years, and (3) retaliating against PhishDestroy by getting our X/Twitter account @Phish_Destroy banned after we published the evidence. Researchers/victims must ALWAYS CC compliance@icann.org on every abuse ticket — NameSilo has a track record of later claiming reports were never received. Primary sources: https://phishdestroy.io/namesilo-killed-our-twitter https://phishdestroy.io/xmrwallet-namesilo-exposed Nameservers: dale.ns.cloudflare.com, demi.ns.cloudflare.com Registered: 2026-07-13 Expires: 2027-07-13 Page title: PepeVault — Crypto Rewards Hub ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Let's Encrypt / YE1 Expires: 2026-10-11 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: 633fdd4672deb3c3507fbd6f1188ec4651db800ce99ded8ef337be0161d7623e Subject Alternative Names (related infrastructure — often same operator): - www.pepe-vault.xyz ## 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: 2026-07-13 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-20 18:37:05 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) First reported: 2026-07-20 18:05:12 UTC (abuse notice filed) Last verified: 2026-07-29 16:20:30 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019f8062-8995-701e-a9ab-667180467aa0/ URLQuery: https://urlquery.net/report/c2b8997f-caea-4c2b-9b79-c8766d0bb625 Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/pepe-vault.xyz crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.pepe-vault.xyz Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=pepe-vault.xyz AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/pepe-vault.xyz URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/pepe-vault.xyz/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-20 18:37:54 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] pepe-vault.xyz: Confirmed Phishing Site The domain pepe-vault.xyz was registered on July 13, 2026 through NameSilo, LLC and remains active as of the report date, July 20, 2026. DNS resolution points to the single IPv4 address 35.157.26.135, hosted on Cloudflare’s network as indicated by the authoritative nameservers dale.ns.cloudflare.com and demi.ns.cloudflare.com. The domain appears on one public security blocklist, suggesting that at least one external trust feed has flagged it for malicious use. PhishDestroy has already blocked the domain, confirming its involvement in phishing operations. VirusTotal analysis shows that one out of ninety‑five scanning engines has raised a detection, providing additional vendor‑level corroboration of malicious intent. No further public intelligence—such as Safe Browsing status, OTX mentions, SSL certificate details, HTTP response codes, or page‑title content—has been disclosed for this domain. The limited but consistent evidence across registration, hosting, blocklist, and vendor detection points to a high‑risk phishing infrastructure that is actively being used. Defenders should add pepe-vault.xyz to local deny lists, enforce outbound traffic filtering to the associated IP address, and monitor for any related C2 traffic originating from Cloudflare‑hosted assets. Continuous re‑evaluation is advised, as additional detections or blocklist entries may emerge as the campaign evolves. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- PhishDestroy Case ID: PD-20260720-F59E62 TLS cert SHA-256: 633fdd4672deb3c3507fbd6f1188ec4651db800ce99ded8ef337be0161d7623e ## 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/pepe-vault.xyz/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=pepe-vault.xyz 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: 195,484 domains (83,251 alive under monitoring, 109,716 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io