# PhishDestroy threat dossier — rewards-theindex.finance ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-22 13:28:24 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/rewards-theindex.finance/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- HIGH THREAT — malicious activity confirmed Composite threat score: 69/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 4/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, SOCRadar AlienVault OTX: 1 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions) Public blocklists: listed on 3 independent blocklists ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 104.21.64.193 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: 2026-07-21 Expires: 2027-07-21 Page title: The Index — hold it, get paid in stocks HTTP response: 301 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Google Trust Services / WE1 Expires: 2026-10-19 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: faa3a96139afa04e80539c2102181f204d3b04973c8ed6cc4ec1ea1a225e4340 ## 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: 2026-07-21 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-22 12:45:53 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) Last verified: 2026-07-22 15:02:04 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019f896c-b931-710f-a7c5-852c79620217/ Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/rewards-theindex.finance crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.rewards-theindex.finance Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=rewards-theindex.finance AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/rewards-theindex.finance URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/rewards-theindex.finance/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-22 12:46:03 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] rewards-theindex.finance Phishing Domain Detected The domain rewards-theindex.finance was registered through NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED and created on July 21, 2026. WHOIS data shows the domain remains active as of the report date, July 22, 2026. It is served by the Cloudflare nameservers kip.ns.cloudflare.com and meera.ns.cloudflare.com and resolves to the IP address 104.21.64.193. The hosting infrastructure is therefore associated with Cloudflare’s edge network, a common choice for malicious operators seeking rapid content delivery and obscured origin. Threat intelligence indicates the domain is listed on three public security blocklists and has been actively blocked by PhishDestroy, MetaMask, and SEAL. VirusTotal analysis reports that four of ninety‑five security vendors have flagged the domain, providing modest consensus of malicious intent. No additional metadata such as page title, SSL certificate details, or HTTP response codes is available in the current intelligence set, leaving the exact content and targeted brand unconfirmed. Defenders should prioritize adding the domain to local deny lists, enforce DNS‑level filtering, and monitor the associated IP address for outbound connections. Continuous re‑evaluation is recommended, as the short registration window and recent creation suggest a rapidly deployed phishing campaign that could evolve to target additional services or users. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- TLS cert SHA-256: faa3a96139afa04e80539c2102181f204d3b04973c8ed6cc4ec1ea1a225e4340 ## 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/rewards-theindex.finance/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=rewards-theindex.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 About PhishDestroy: independent open-source threat-intelligence platform. Tracked: 188,066 domains (57,511 alive under monitoring, 128,922 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io