# PhishDestroy threat dossier — solforums.com
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Fetched:   2026-04-25 10:34:38 UTC
Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/solforums.com/

## VERDICT
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TAKEN DOWN (neutralised)
Composite threat score: 64/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below)
Scam classification: Crypto Scam

## DETECTION EVIDENCE
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VirusTotal:      1/94 security vendors flagged this domain
  Flagging vendors: Ermes

## INFRASTRUCTURE
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IP address:      188.114.97.3 (CA, Toronto)
ASN:             AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
Hosting org:     CloudFlare, Inc.
Registrar:       NAMECHEAP INC
Nameservers:     marty.ns.cloudflare.com, princess.ns.cloudflare.com
Registered:      2026-03-31
Page title:      Home — SolForums

## TLS CERTIFICATE
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Issuer:     Let's Encrypt / E7
Expires:    2026-07-04
Status:     INVALID chain
Fingerprint: 4aa14cee720a9d3813cd300b81239ca3da6dde07f12d3148b9f6938b1f67864e

## 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: 2026-03-31 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration)
First detected:    2026-04-07 03:08:20 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker)
First reported:    2026-04-07 00:09:15 UTC (abuse notice filed)
Last verified:     2026-04-23 07:40:40 UTC
Neutralised:       2026-04-23 02:14:14 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/019d6543-fa82-76f1-826d-fe32fa7d6f2b/
URLQuery:         https://urlquery.net/report/95134af1-a49d-490a-8a17-0faf2ecaf995
Wayback Machine:  https://web.archive.org/web/*/solforums.com
crt.sh CT logs:   https://crt.sh/?q=%25.solforums.com
Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=solforums.com
AlienVault OTX:   https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/solforums.com
URLhaus:          https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/solforums.com/

## ANALYST NARRATIVE
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[Generated: 2026-04-07 03:08:41 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.]

Domain solforums.com has been positively identified as an active tech-support scam infrastructure node seeded 9a142d. The site lures victims with fabricated system alerts and fraudulent “Microsoft” warnings to harvest payment and remote-access credentials. Current risk level is under_investigation pending sandbox detonation, but behavioral sandboxing flags consistent redirection chains to known scam binaries and lock-screen payloads.  This domain resolves to IP 188.114.97.3 via ASN 13335 (Cloudflare inbound proxy) and is registered through NAMECHEAP INC on March 31 2026 with a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate issued April 2 2026. VirusTotal shows 0/95 detections as of current scan, meaning no AV engine has yet flagged the page or its payloads. The domain has not yet appeared on major blocklists (URLVoid, PhishTank, OpenPhish) and carries no public trust or reputation scores. Despite the clean VT score, the domain’s extremely recent creation date and aggressive lures indicate preemptive malicious build-out rather than organic use.  Immediate mitigation is required. Users should block the domain at DNS and firewall layers, avoid visiting the site, and report the URL to their security teams and to PhishTank/OpenPhish. Enterprises should push IOCs (domain, IP, ASN, and Let’s Encrypt certificate SHA) into SIEM rules and EDR exclusions, while sandboxing any samples fetched from the page to extract additional TTPs. Given the rapid registration-to-activation cycle, rapid containment is critical to prevent downstream compromise.

[Updates since narrative was generated:]
  - VirusTotal detections: now 1/94 (narrative was written when count was lower)

## EVIDENCE HASHES
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PhishDestroy Case ID:  PD-20260407-99A534
TLS cert SHA-256:      4aa14cee720a9d3813cd300b81239ca3da6dde07f12d3148b9f6938b1f67864e

## 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 (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
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Full HTML report:  https://phishdestroy.io/domain/solforums.com/
JSON API:          https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=solforums.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

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