# PhishDestroy threat dossier — ruststack.net
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Fetched:   2026-08-01 18:43:33 UTC
Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/ruststack.net/

## VERDICT
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TAKEN DOWN (neutralised)
Composite threat score: 99/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below)
Scam classification: Brand Impersonation
Targeted brand: steam

## DETECTION EVIDENCE
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VirusTotal:      16/95 security vendors flagged this domain
  Flagging vendors: ADMINUSLabs, alphaMountain.ai, BitDefender, Chong Lua Dao, CyRadar, ESET, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, G-Data, Google Safebrowsing, Lionic, Phishing Database, Seclookup, SOCRadar, Sophos, VIPRE
AlienVault OTX:  16 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions)
Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist
Victim re-reports (public form): 1

## INFRASTRUCTURE
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IP address:      172.67.177.76 (US, San Francisco)
ASN:             ASAS13335 CLOUDFLARENET, US
Hosting org:     AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
Registrar:       Web Commerce Communications Limited
Nameservers:     jarred.ns.cloudflare.com, kara.ns.cloudflare.com
Registered:      2025-11-06
Expires:         2026-11-06
Page title:      RustStack | Community for RUST Skin Designers

## TLS CERTIFICATE
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Issuer:     none
Status:     INVALID chain

## ABUSE-REPORT HISTORY (evidence of registrar non-response)
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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
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Domain registered: 2025-11-06 (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:    2025-11-07 17:46:41 UTC (abuse notice filed)
Last verified:     2026-08-01 20:21:43 UTC
Neutralised:       2026-04-30 04:09:27 UTC
Current status:    taken down (registrar suspended or DNS dead)

## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence)
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URLScan.io:       https://urlscan.io/result/019a5f6d-170b-773a-9099-4b7f8d20a7fc/
Wayback Machine:  https://web.archive.org/web/*/ruststack.net
crt.sh CT logs:   https://crt.sh/?q=%25.ruststack.net
Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=ruststack.net
AlienVault OTX:   https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/ruststack.net
URLhaus:          https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/ruststack.net/

## ANALYST NARRATIVE
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[Generated: 2026-07-23 20:14:03 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.]

ruststack.net brand impersonation of Steam – elevated

The domain ruststack.net was registered on 2025-11-06 through Web Commerce Communications Limited and is hosted on Cloudflare infrastructure (AS13335) with the IPv4 address 172.67.177.76 located in the United States. The authoritative name servers are jarred.ns.cloudflare.com and kara.ns.cloudflare.com. No TLS certificate is presented for the site, indicating that HTTPS is not configured. The HTTP response is currently unavailable because the service has been taken offline, and the domain is listed as blocked by PhishDestroy and appears on a single public blocklist.

VirusTotal scans show that 16 of 95 antivirus and URL‑reputation engines flagged the domain as malicious, and AlienVault OTX reports inclusion in 16 threat‑intel pulses, reinforcing the suspicion of abuse. The page title retrieved before takedown reads “RustStack | Community for RUST Skin Designers”, which bears no obvious relation to the targeted brand, yet the campaign is classified as a brand‑impersonation attempt against Steam. Gridinsoft assigns a trust score of 0 out of 100, further confirming the low reputation of this host. The combination of a recent registration date, Cloudflare‑proxied IP, lack of TLS, multiple vendor detections, and inclusion in OTX pulses suggests a deliberate phishing infrastructure rather than an accidental misconfiguration.

Defenders should continue to block ruststack.net at the DNS and proxy layers, monitor for any resurgence of the domain or associated IP addresses, and add the host to internal URL‑filtering rules. Because the site is already offline, incident response actions can focus on identifying any credential harvesting activity that may have occurred while the domain was active, reviewing logs for HTTP requests to ruststack.net, and ensuring that users are educated about unsolicited communications purporting to originate from Steam.

## 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/ruststack.net/
JSON API:          https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=ruststack.net
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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