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“Steam”

Threat verdict Critical 98/100 evidence score
Availability Unverified Current reachability is unverified
VirusTotal detections: 18/89 Brand impersonation: Steam
Sep 3, 2026 Steam
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This domain has been flagged as malicious
Security engines reporting a detection: 18. Exercise extreme caution — do not enter credentials or personal information.

Evidence Summary

CRITICAL
Score
98/100

steamcommunity.pips.ru is a subdomain of pips.ru. PhishDestroy first observed the hostname on Sep 3, 2026. The hostname explicitly references Steam; stored content metadata identifies the same apparent target. The captured page title is “Steam”. Stored page analysis classifies the content as impersonation. Campaign clustering links the hostname to the Unknown kit. Current evidence score: 98/100 (critical).

Positive findings are stored from 2 sources: VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing. VirusTotal recorded 18 detections among 89 engines: ADMINUSLabs, Criminal IP, alphaMountain.ai, Chong Lua Dao, CyRadar, ESET, Emsisoft, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, Google Safe Browsing, Gridinsoft, Kaspersky, Lionic, Netcraft, SOCRadar, Sophos, VIPRE, Webroot on Sep 13, 2026 at 21:22 UTC. Google Safe Browsing flagged the domain: Social Engineering on Sep 16, 2026 at 04:01 UTC. Non-positive and contextual checks: The separate external-blocklist snapshot contained no matches on Sep 20, 2026 at 14:20 UTC. URLScan completed without a malicious verdict (score 0) on Sep 19, 2026 at 03:30 UTC.

The collector marked the hostname reachable on Sep 17, 2026 at 10:21 UTC, but did not retain the HTTP response code. At collection time, the hostname resolved to 212.46.196.137 on AS3216 (PJSC Vimpelcom). The recorded endpoint location is Moscow, RU. The stored server header is Apache. DOM analysis on Sep 17, 2026 at 02:20 UTC returned 98/100. The evidence archive retains 1 visual capture from PhishDestroy.

The content indicators and 2 positive source findings support the current Steam-themed impersonation classification.

VirusTotal
VirusTotal
18 det.
URLScan
URLScan
ScamAdviser
Scamadviser
80/100Likely Safe
Observed status
Unverified
PhishDestroy
DestroyList
Listed
Data coverage VirusTotal 18 / 89 OTX no community references CF Radar scan completed URLScan capture stored report URLScan verdict Analysis completed TLS no certificate data WHOIS not parsed Screenshot external capture Scamadviser 80/100

Forensic History & Detection Timeline

This timeline displays historical security and status checkpoints observed by the PhishDestroy automated monitoring network. It records domain lifecycle updates, scanner changes, and threat telemetry over time.
  1. VirusTotal Detections Update Sep 13, 2026 · 23:22 UTC
    VirusTotal scanner detections updated from 17 to 18. Added scanner alerts: Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, SOCRadar. Resolved alerts: Seclookup.
  2. Status Check Sep 13, 2026 · 18:10 UTC
    Telemetry event observed.
  3. Threat First Observed Sep 13, 2026 · 18:03 UTC
    Domain ingestion complete. Initial state is marked as alive.

Threat Response Pipeline

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11/13

Public Blocklist Status

Evasion analysis

Cloaking & traffic-distribution check

Stored crawler-versus-browser observations for this host, plus a live fingerprint check for Keitaro-style traffic distribution systems.

Stored cloaking flag
Not yet scanned
Last cloaking scan

Scanner note: timeout: raw=timeout; http=0; via=http_proxy; error=HTTPConnectionPool(host='149.57.17.37', port=5505): Read timed out. (read timeout=7)

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Stored Capture · 1 source

Domain Intelligence

Domain
URLScan Verdict Analysis completed score 0 report ↗
Google Safe Browsing Flagged Social engineering checked Sep 16, 2026
Server / ASN Apache · AS3216 PJSC Vimpelcom
IP Reputation abuse score 0/100 0 reports checked Sep 13, 2026
Technical detailsDNS, SSL SANs, timestamps
First DetectedSep 3, 2026
DOM Analysisanalyzed Sep 17, 2026score 98/100
IoC Extractionscanned Sep 17, 20260 wallet · 0 Telegram IoCs
MX Records10 freemail.centre.ru
TLS Observationscanned Sep 20, 2026
Favicon Hash
Page Title
Steam
Threat Intel Cross-Reference · source references
ScamAdviser Public lookup
A public ScamAdviser lookup is available. Review its current score and warnings at the source; the existence of a lookup page is not itself a malicious verdict.
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VirusTotal Analysis

18 / 89 security vendors flagged this domain
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Last analyzed First positive detection Previous stored snapshot: 17 detections
ADMINUSLabs
Criminal IP
alphaMountain.ai
Chong Lua Dao
CyRadar
ESET
Emsisoft
Forcepoint ThreatSeeker
Fortinet
Google Safe Browsing
Gridinsoft
Kaspersky
Lionic
Netcraft
SOCRadar
Sophos
VIPRE
Webroot

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