# PhishDestroy threat dossier — play-reward-center.click ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-13 08:33:38 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/play-reward-center.click/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- TAKEN DOWN (neutralised) Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) Scam classification: Generic Phishing ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 5/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Gridinsoft, Sophos, Webroot AlienVault OTX: 1 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions) Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 188.114.97.3 (US, San Francisco) ASN: ASAS13335 CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US Hosting org: AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. Registrar: Dynadot, LLC Nameservers: aiden.ns.cloudflare.com, sierra.ns.cloudflare.com Registered: 2025-10-09 Expires: 2026-10-09 Page title: Melbe HTTP response: 302 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Google Trust Services / WE1 Expires: 2026-09-01 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: 4ed076152c97bab36d4b3cc459a32db6d913c5fc7f9aa16e4b61469952d9addc ## 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: 2025-10-09 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-06-24 16:30:50 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) Last verified: 2026-07-13 08:20:41 UTC Neutralised: 2026-06-24 18:19:01 UTC Current status: taken down (registrar suspended or DNS dead) ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019efa09-a449-7581-8ff7-8315b555f9e1/ Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/play-reward-center.click crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.play-reward-center.click Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=play-reward-center.click AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/play-reward-center.click URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/play-reward-center.click/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-12 17:25:16 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] The domain play-reward-center.click was observed on July 12, 2026 as part of a high‑risk generic phishing operation. The site returns an HTTP 302 redirect and presents the browser title “Melbe”. Threat intelligence sources classify the activity as generic phishing, and the domain remains active despite mitigation attempts. Infrastructure analysis shows the domain resolves to the IP address 188.114.97.3, which belongs to AS13335 operated by Cloudflare, Inc. The server is located in the United States. DNS resolution uses the Cloudflare authoritative name servers aiden.ns.cloudflare.com and sierra.ns.cloudflare.com. The SSL certificate is issued by Google Trust Services under the WE1 root, indicating HTTPS is enforced. Registration records list Dynadot, LLC as the registrar, with the domain creation date of October 09, 2025. VirusTotal scans have flagged the domain by five out of ninety‑five security vendors, and Gridinsoft assigns a trust score of zero out of one hundred, reinforcing the malicious assessment. The domain appears on a single public blocklist and is currently blocked by the PhishDestroy service. No additional intelligence regarding the phishing kit, targeted brand, or payload delivery mechanism has been disclosed, leaving the exact content of the landing page uncertain beyond the observed title. Defenders should immediately add play-reward-center.click to DNS and URL filtering policies, and consider sinkholing the associated IP address to disrupt traffic. Monitoring for outbound connections to 188.114.97.3 and for anomalous HTTP 302 responses can aid detection. Updating intrusion‑detection signatures to flag the “Melbe” page title and the specific Cloudflare name‑server pair may provide early warning of replicas. Continued intelligence sharing is recommended to track any evolution of the campaign. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- Favicon MD5: c105da23200667081f91b7c476f1bde9 TLS cert SHA-256: 4ed076152c97bab36d4b3cc459a32db6d913c5fc7f9aa16e4b61469952d9addc ## 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/play-reward-center.click/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=play-reward-center.click 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: 178,033 domains (49,760 alive under monitoring, 128,273 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io