# PhishDestroy threat dossier — punchempire.com ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-13 13:44:51 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/punchempire.com/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- TAKEN DOWN (neutralised) Composite threat score: 48/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 3/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: Bfore.Ai PreCrime, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 104.18.25.220 (CA, Toronto) ASN: AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. Hosting org: Cloudflare, Inc. 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: kareem.ns.cloudflare.com, tani.ns.cloudflare.com Registered: 2025-01-11 Expires: 2028-01-11 Page title: Attention Required! | Cloudflare HTTP response: 403 ## 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: 2025-01-11 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-10 22:33:06 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) Last verified: 2026-07-13 12:20:40 UTC Neutralised: 2026-07-11 04:48:37 UTC Current status: taken down (registrar suspended or DNS dead) ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019f4dbb-2066-74b8-b627-8775cc663fa9/ Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/punchempire.com crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.punchempire.com Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=punchempire.com AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/punchempire.com URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/punchempire.com/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-10 23:03:35 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] This domain, punchempire.com, is currently flagged as a generic phishing threat. Analysis indicates the domain is actively serving malicious content designed to deceive users into disclosing sensitive information or executing unauthorized transactions. No specific brand impersonation has been identified, but the domain exhibits characteristics consistent with broad-spectrum phishing campaigns targeting general credentials or financial data. Infrastructure analysis reveals the domain was registered on January 11, 2025, through NameSilo, LLC. It resolves to the IP address 104.18.25.220, which is associated with a content delivery network, potentially masking its true origin. The SSL certificate is issued by Google Trust Services, a common tactic to lend superficial legitimacy. As of the latest assessment, punchempire.com is flagged by 2 of 95 security vendors on VirusTotal, a relatively low detection rate that may indicate evasion techniques or recent deployment. No additional blocklist entries or trust scores were identified in public threat intelligence feeds. The domain remains active, posing an ongoing risk to users who may encounter it through phishing emails, malicious advertisements, or compromised websites. Organizations are advised to implement immediate network-level blocking of punchempire.com and its resolving IP address. Endpoint protection solutions should be updated to include this domain in their real-time scanning rules. Users who may have interacted with the domain should reset credentials for any accounts accessed during the exposure window and monitor for unauthorized activity. Security teams are encouraged to conduct retrospective log analysis for connections to 104.18.25.220 or DNS queries for punchempire.com to identify potential compromises. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- Favicon MD5: 197417e3eeac740dcf7714c2fea50898 ## 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/punchempire.com/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=punchempire.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: 178,140 domains (49,831 alive under monitoring, 128,309 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io