# PhishDestroy threat dossier — stairwaytogold.xyz ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-28 12:59:44 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/stairwaytogold.xyz/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 4/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar Public blocklists: listed on 3 independent blocklists ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 188.114.97.3 (CA, Toronto) ASN: AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. Hosting org: CloudFlare, Inc. Registrar: OwnRegistrar, Inc. Nameservers: james.ns.cloudflare.com, magdalena.ns.cloudflare.com Registered: 2026-07-16 Expires: 2027-07-16 Page title: Trade GOLD ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Google Trust Services / WE1 Expires: 2026-10-14 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: 9de405a26877c5e92655cc93426e0d764e2f86148a5a5afb5c0aef4f15abd4be ## 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: 2026-07-16 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-22 20:16:13 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) First reported: 2026-07-22 18:23:53 UTC (abuse notice filed) Last verified: 2026-07-28 12:47:56 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019f8b09-6ae6-74aa-ac8f-0f569cfdd31c/ URLQuery: https://urlquery.net/report/d4441dda-01ce-4b2b-b6d3-ba49666f18d8 Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/stairwaytogold.xyz crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.stairwaytogold.xyz Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=stairwaytogold.xyz AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/stairwaytogold.xyz URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/stairwaytogold.xyz/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-22 20:17:03 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] stairwaytogold.xyz Generic Phishing Alert Analysis of stairwaytogold.xyz was performed on 22 July 2026. The domain was registered on 16 July 2026 through OwnRegistrar, Inc. Authoritative nameservers are james.ns.cloudflare.com and magdalena.ns.cloudflare.com, indicating that the domain is hosted on Cloudflare’s edge network. DNS resolution currently points to IP address 188.114.97.3, which is owned by Cloudflare and is commonly used for content delivery and proxy services. The domain is listed on a single security blocklist and has been actively blocked by the PhishDestroy filtering service, reflecting that at least one threat‑intel provider has taken mitigation action. VirusTotal processed the domain with 95 scanning engines and reported no detections; this lack of flags should not be interpreted as evidence that the site is benign, only that current scanners have not identified malicious payloads. The threat is classified as generic phishing and remains active and under investigation. No publicly available page title, SSL certificate details, HTTP status codes, or brand‑specific indicators have been released, so the exact visual content, targeted brand, or credential‑capture technique employed by the site are presently unknown. Defenders are advised to add stairwaytogold.xyz to internal blocklists, monitor network traffic for connections to 188.114.97.3, and consider applying Cloudflare’s DNS and IP reputation feeds to restrict access. Continuous re‑evaluation of VirusTotal and other reputation services for new detections is recommended, as well as routine checks of any emerging blocklist entries that reference this domain. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- PhishDestroy Case ID: PD-20260722-D21AF5 TLS cert SHA-256: 9de405a26877c5e92655cc93426e0d764e2f86148a5a5afb5c0aef4f15abd4be ## 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/stairwaytogold.xyz/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=stairwaytogold.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: independent open-source threat-intelligence platform. Tracked: 210,803 domains (85,243 alive under monitoring, 124,530 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io