# PhishDestroy threat dossier — quest.gal-connects.com ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-08-01 01:50:27 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/quest.gal-connects.com/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- HIGH THREAT — malicious activity confirmed Composite threat score: 77/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) Scam classification: Credential Phishing Targeted brand: Google ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 0/91 security vendors flagged this domain Public blocklists: listed on 2 independent blocklists ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 172.67.164.82 (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: doug.ns.cloudflare.com, tia.ns.cloudflare.com Registered: 2026-07-18 Expires: 2027-07-18 Page title: Plesk Obsidian 18.0.77 HTTP response: 303 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Google Trust Services / WE1 Expires: 2026-10-16 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: 2d5301bac81616d0872f7260025e2fe228e3b33f2a1e5cd6165ed19646609b88 Subject Alternative Names (related infrastructure — often same operator): - gal-connects.com ## 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: 2026-07-18 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-29 08:06:01 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) Last verified: 2026-08-01 00:46:28 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019fac79-ef14-74f4-aecf-9d9cd19039e8/ Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/quest.gal-connects.com crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.quest.gal-connects.com Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=quest.gal-connects.com AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/quest.gal-connects.com URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/quest.gal-connects.com/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-29 08:08:18 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] quest.gal-connects.com used in credential harvest Analysis of quest.gal-connects.com shows a newly registered domain created on 18 July 2026 by NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED. The domain is hosted on Cloudflare infrastructure, using nameservers doug.ns.cloudflare.com and tia.ns.cloudflare.com and resolving to IP address 172.67.164.82. VirusTotal records indicate that the domain has been submitted to 91 scanning engines, none of which have raised a detection at the time of observation. The domain is currently listed on a single security blocklist and is actively blocked by the PhishDestroy service, confirming that at least one threat‑intelligence feed has classified it as malicious. No additional public reputation sources such as Google Safe Browsing, OTX, or SSL/TLS analysis are available in the provided data, and the HTTP response code, page title, or any observed payload have not been disclosed. Consequently, the precise phishing lure, target brand, or credential‑harvesting technique employed by this site remains unknown. Defenders should treat the domain as hostile, enforce network‑level blocking, and monitor outbound connections to the associated IP. Continuous re‑scanning with multi‑engine services is advised to capture any future detections. Organizations should also consider updating email filters to flag messages that reference URLs matching the “gal‑connects.com” pattern, and employ user‑awareness training that emphasizes verification of unexpected links. Because the registration date is recent and the hosting service is a widely used CDN, the infrastructure can be rapidly re‑hosted; therefore, threat‑hunting teams should correlate internal logs for activity toward the IP address and watch for similar domain registrations using the same registrar or naming convention. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- Favicon MD5: ebbd61fb584cc8ae62ffa726070c952f TLS cert SHA-256: 2d5301bac81616d0872f7260025e2fe228e3b33f2a1e5cd6165ed19646609b88 ## 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/quest.gal-connects.com/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=quest.gal-connects.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: 196,233 domains (99,561 alive under monitoring, 27,268 confirmed neutralized). Site: https://phishdestroy.io