# PhishDestroy threat dossier — rpcupgrade.com ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-22 02:39:54 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/rpcupgrade.com/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 1/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: SOCRadar URLQuery: 2 detections AlienVault OTX: 2 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions) Public blocklists: listed on 3 independent blocklists ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 185.255.122.102 (UA, Kyiv) ASN: ASAS30860 YURTEH-AS Virtual Systems LLC, UA Hosting org: AS30860 Virtual Systems LLC Registrar: Gransy, s.r.o. Nameservers: lunar1.freednsdedi.com, lunar2.freednsdedi.com Registered: 2026-07-05 Expires: 2027-07-05 Page title: RPC Browser - Loading... HTTP response: 200 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Let's Encrypt / YR2 Expires: 2026-10-03 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: 960d12f060fa684bb521ede86669e6c0dba5ee39ce8c1baf9619fdb5ee74a8aa ## 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: 2026-07-05 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-12 13:33:36 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) First reported: 2026-07-12 21:10:57 UTC (abuse notice filed) Last verified: 2026-07-22 04:20:22 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019f5619-b57e-7611-a88c-17118d14bdc6/ URLQuery: https://urlquery.net/report/6158c0e1-010b-4592-8001-afc822645d7f Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/rpcupgrade.com crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.rpcupgrade.com Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=rpcupgrade.com AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/rpcupgrade.com URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/rpcupgrade.com/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-12 17:19:01 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] Is rpcupgrade.com a Phishing Site? The domain rpcupgrade.com was registered on July 5, 2026 through Gransy, s.r.o. and is currently classified as a generic phishing infrastructure with a high risk rating. The domain remains active and resolves to a single IPv4 address (185.255.122.102). Its authoritative name servers are lunar1.freednsdedi.com and lunar2.freednsdedi.com, both typical of free DNS hosting providers. Network‑level analysis shows the IP is hosted in Ukraine by BeeHosted, a provider known to lease commodity servers to a variety of actors. The site presents a valid TLS certificate issued by Let’s Encrypt (YR2) and responds with HTTP 200 over HTTP/3. The rendered page title is “RPC Browser - Loading…”, and client‑side libraries Alpine.js and jQuery are detected, indicating a modern JavaScript‑driven interface. Reputation data confirms the malicious nature of the host. The domain appears on three public blocklists and has been flagged by three of ninety‑five VirusTotal scanners. AlienVault OTX lists it in two separate threat pulses, and the domain is actively blocked by PhishDestroy, MetaMask, and SEAL. These independent sources converge on the conclusion that rpcupgrade.com is being used to lure victims to submit credentials or install malicious payloads. Defenders should treat rpcupgrade.com as hostile. Network perimeter devices should block traffic to 185.255.122.102 and to the domain name itself. Email gateways must add the domain to deny‑list rules to prevent phishing messages from reaching end users. Analysts should monitor DNS queries for the lunar1/2.freednsdedi.com name servers for signs of new look‑alike domains, and consider sinkholing the IP if operationally feasible. Because the actual landing page content is not captured in public scans, further sandbox analysis is recommended to determine the exact credential‑harvesting or payload‑delivery mechanisms employed. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- PhishDestroy Case ID: PD-20260712-32E8E1 TLS cert SHA-256: 960d12f060fa684bb521ede86669e6c0dba5ee39ce8c1baf9619fdb5ee74a8aa ## 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/rpcupgrade.com/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=rpcupgrade.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: 187,720 domains (57,297 alive under monitoring, 128,779 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io