# PhishDestroy threat dossier — rewards-ether.finance
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Fetched:   2026-07-17 02:38:24 UTC
Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/rewards-ether.finance/

## VERDICT
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CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT
Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below)

## DETECTION EVIDENCE
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VirusTotal:      1/91 security vendors flagged this domain
  Flagging vendors: Fortinet
Public blocklists: listed on 3 independent blocklists

## INFRASTRUCTURE
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IP address:      188.114.97.3 (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:     kip.ns.cloudflare.com, meera.ns.cloudflare.com
Registered:      2026-07-15
Expires:         2027-07-15
Page title:      Just a moment...
HTTP response:   403

## TLS CERTIFICATE
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Issuer:     Google Trust Services / WE1
Expires:    2026-10-13
Status:     INVALID chain
Fingerprint: a034e9e8a25216afcc02e6c35e59da4883f2008c241a94c984d538d9adf8fce7

## ABUSE-REPORT HISTORY (evidence of registrar non-response)
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Status: pending notification queue. No abuse reports filed yet — this domain is
waiting for the next cycle of our automated abuse-reporter.

## TIMELINE
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Domain registered: 2026-07-15 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration)
First detected:    2026-07-15 04:33:05 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker)
Last verified:     2026-07-17 04:20:40 UTC
Current status:    ACTIVE / observable

## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence)
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URLScan.io:       https://urlscan.io/result/019f639e-37de-7289-a446-ac7d4ae45ef1/
Wayback Machine:  https://web.archive.org/web/*/rewards-ether.finance
crt.sh CT logs:   https://crt.sh/?q=%25.rewards-ether.finance
Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=rewards-ether.finance
AlienVault OTX:   https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/rewards-ether.finance
URLhaus:          https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/rewards-ether.finance/

## ANALYST NARRATIVE
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[Generated: 2026-07-15 04:40:15 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.]

Analysis of rewards-ether.finance shows it was registered on July 15, 2026 and is currently active. The domain is delegated to the Cloudflare nameservers kip.ns.cloudflare.com and meera.ns.cloudflare.com, and resolves to the IP address 188.114.97.3. Registration was performed through NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED. An HTTP request to the domain returns a 403 status code, indicating that access is denied or restricted. VirusTotal reports a single positive detection out of 91 security vendors, confirming that at least one scanner has flagged the domain as malicious. No public content, page title, or target brand information is available, so the specific victim set or impersonated service cannot be confirmed at this time. Defenders should treat the domain as high‑risk, enforce outbound filtering to block any DNS resolution or HTTP requests to rewards-ether.finance, and add the IP address 188.114.97.3 to network deny lists. Continuous monitoring of DNS queries and any associated traffic is recommended, as the infrastructure may be leveraged for credential harvesting or other credential‑stealing campaigns.

## EVIDENCE HASHES
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Favicon MD5:       47fb2ccd7101e2639d07857e40c7a113
TLS cert SHA-256:      a034e9e8a25216afcc02e6c35e59da4883f2008c241a94c984d538d9adf8fce7

## SCORING METHODOLOGY
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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
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Full HTML report:  https://phishdestroy.io/domain/rewards-ether.finance/
JSON API:          https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=rewards-ether.finance
Appeal a flag:     https://phishdestroy.io/appeals/  (responded to within 48 hours, FP rate <0.01%)
Submit a report:   https://t.me/PhishDestroy_bot

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