# PhishDestroy threat dossier — rewards-lighter.xyz ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-06-28 22:19:09 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/rewards-lighter.xyz/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- TAKEN DOWN (neutralised) Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) Scam classification: airdrop_scam, wallet_connect_phish Targeted brand: base (and: coinbase, discord, ethereum, telegram) Wallet drainer: Wallet Connect Abuse ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 10/93 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, CyRadar, Ermes, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar, Sophos, Webroot Public blocklists: listed on 4 independent blocklists Victim re-reports (public form): 1 ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 172.67.153.3 (US, San Francisco) ASN: ASAS13335 CLOUDFLARENET, US Hosting org: AS13335 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: ulla.ns.cloudflare.com, vicky.ns.cloudflare.com Registered: 2025-12-29 Expires: 2026-12-29 Page title: Lighter HTTP response: 429 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: none Status: INVALID chain ## 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: 2025-12-29 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-02-25 02:39:27 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) First reported: 2025-12-30 00:42:33 UTC (abuse notice filed) Last verified: 2026-06-28 20:20:36 UTC Neutralised: 2026-05-14 16:27:03 UTC Current status: taken down (registrar suspended or DNS dead) ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019b6cb3-9960-75b4-ab3a-01693ca4f878/ Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/rewards-lighter.xyz crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.rewards-lighter.xyz Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=rewards-lighter.xyz AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/rewards-lighter.xyz URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/rewards-lighter.xyz/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-06-24 05:57:00 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] The domain rewards-lighter.xyz impersonated the Base brand, presenting itself as "Lighter" to host an airdrop scam and Wallet Connect phishing scheme. This site posed a threat by attempting to trick users into connecting their wallets to fraudulent interfaces, potentially leading to asset theft via the Wallet Connect Abuse drainer kit. Technical evidence shows 10 out of 95 VirusTotal vendors flagged the domain as malicious. The domain was registered through NiceNIC International Group Co., Limited, created on 2025-12-29, and resolved to IP 172.67.153.3 (US) hosted by Cloudflare, Inc. (AS13335). No SSL certificate was present. The site was blocked by 4 blocklists, with detection from alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, CyRadar, Ermes, and Forcepoint ThreatSeeker. The domain is currently DOWN/OFFLINE. GridinSoft trust rating is 0 out of 100, with a DOM risk score of 20, indicating a low to moderate risk profile despite being offline. ## 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 (volunteer 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/rewards-lighter.xyz/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=rewards-lighter.xyz 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: volunteer-driven open-source threat-intelligence platform. Tracked: 172,064 domains (13,017 alive under monitoring, 158,549 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io