# PhishDestroy threat dossier — pinnacletechtrades.com ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-27 08:22:01 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/pinnacletechtrades.com/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- HIGH THREAT — malicious activity confirmed Composite threat score: 65/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 9/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: ADMINUSLabs, alphaMountain.ai, BitDefender, Chong Lua Dao, G-Data, Gridinsoft, Kaspersky, Netcraft, SOCRadar AlienVault OTX: 2 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions) 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: TuringSign Inc. d/b/a Cosmotown Nameservers: johnny.ns.cloudflare.com, zita.ns.cloudflare.com Registered: 2024-11-13 Expires: 2026-11-13 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Let's Encrypt / YE1 Expires: 2026-09-03 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: d6bf0405f24a92e5ad760bd9119e2cb2b90394fb259359c276ffc94c7c6d39b0 ## 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: 2024-11-13 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-27 07:02:16 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) Last verified: 2026-07-27 09:02:54 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019fa202-7008-742b-ac32-dd6f3079e4b4/ Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/pinnacletechtrades.com crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.pinnacletechtrades.com Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=pinnacletechtrades.com AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/pinnacletechtrades.com URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/pinnacletechtrades.com/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-27 07:06:03 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] pinnacletechtrades.com Generic Phishing Alert Analysis of pinnacletechtrades.com shows an active malicious infrastructure that has been in operation since its registration on 13 November 2024. The domain is registered through TuringSign Inc. d/b/a Cosmotown and uses Cloudflare‑provided nameservers (johnny.ns.cloudflare.com and zita.ns.cloudflare.com). DNS resolution points to the IP address 188.114.97.3, which belongs to the Cloudflare network and is commonly leveraged by threat actors to hide the true hosting location. The domain is currently listed on a single security blocklist and is explicitly blocked by the PhishDestroy feed, indicating that at least one reputable anti‑phishing service has identified it as malicious. VirusTotal scans have returned nine positive detections out of ninety‑one submitted security vendors, reinforcing the suspicion that the site is being used for phishing‑related activity. No public page title or content analysis is available, so the exact luring technique, target brand, or credential‑capture mechanism remains unknown. However, the combination of recent registration, Cloudflare‑based hosting, multiple vendor detections, and inclusion on a phishing blocklist strongly suggests that the domain is being used to host a generic phishing campaign. Defenders should proactively block pinnacletechtrades.com at the DNS and proxy layers, add the IP address 188.114.97.3 to network‑level deny lists, and monitor for any outbound connections to the domain. Continuous re‑scanning with sandbox and URL reputation services is advised to capture any evolution in the payload or landing page. Organizations that rely on email filtering should ensure that signatures covering this domain are up‑to‑date, and incident response teams should be prepared to investigate any authentication attempts that involve this URL. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- Favicon MD5: 003337313c9d2cf304f1b1a6668c6793 TLS cert SHA-256: d6bf0405f24a92e5ad760bd9119e2cb2b90394fb259359c276ffc94c7c6d39b0 ## 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/pinnacletechtrades.com/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=pinnacletechtrades.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: 204,037 domains (79,459 alive under monitoring, 123,547 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io