# PhishDestroy threat dossier — sterlingassetsmanagement.com
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Fetched:   2026-05-18 00:15:21 UTC
Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/sterlingassetsmanagement.com/

## VERDICT
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HIGH THREAT — malicious activity confirmed
Composite threat score: 70/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below)

## DETECTION EVIDENCE
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VirusTotal:      2/95 security vendors flagged this domain
  Flagging vendors: Fortinet, Netcraft

## INFRASTRUCTURE
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IP address:      188.114.96.3 (CA, Toronto)
ASN:             AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
Hosting org:     CloudFlare, Inc.
Registrar:       Spaceship, Inc.
Nameservers:     jihoon.ns.cloudflare.com, lana.ns.cloudflare.com
Registered:      2026-05-13
Page title:      Welcome -
        Sterling Assets Management
HTTP response:   200

## TLS CERTIFICATE
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Issuer:     Let's Encrypt / E8
Expires:    2026-08-14
Status:     INVALID chain
Fingerprint: f51ef7e5f5874b1dcec2028c52ae4cae4ef8b4aa4e31c32872d09c657829d06d

## ABUSE-REPORT HISTORY (evidence of registrar non-response)
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Status: pending notification queue. No abuse reports filed yet — this domain is
waiting for the next cycle of our automated abuse-reporter.

## TIMELINE
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Domain registered: 2026-05-13 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration)
First detected:    2026-05-17 17:41:02 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker)
First reported:    2026-05-17 14:42:42 UTC (abuse notice filed)
Last verified:     2026-05-18 01:40:01 UTC
Current status:    ACTIVE / observable

## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence)
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URLScan.io:       https://urlscan.io/result/019e3661-3e4e-7228-b02e-1f56ea1dc4d4/
URLQuery:         https://urlquery.net/report/50f33f61-6c67-4781-a64c-de4bf2214145
Wayback Machine:  https://web.archive.org/web/*/sterlingassetsmanagement.com
crt.sh CT logs:   https://crt.sh/?q=%25.sterlingassetsmanagement.com
Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=sterlingassetsmanagement.com
AlienVault OTX:   https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/sterlingassetsmanagement.com
URLhaus:          https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/sterlingassetsmanagement.com/

## ANALYST NARRATIVE
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[Generated: 2026-05-17 17:41:39 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.]

PhishDestroy identifies sterlingassetsmanagement.com as a live phishing site actively impersonating a financial-services firm to steal login credentials and investment funds.

This domain was flagged on 2 of 95 VirusTotal security engines, confirms SSL issued by Let’s Encrypt, and resolves to 188.114.96.3. Registration records show it went live on May 13, 2024 and is sponsored by Spaceship, Inc.

If you visited sterlingassetsmanagement.com, stop and close the tab. Do NOT enter any credentials or payment details. Run a full antivirus scan, reset browser passwords, and report the incident to your bank and local cybercrime unit. Monitor accounts closely for unusual transactions and consider enabling two-factor authentication on all financial services.

## EVIDENCE HASHES
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PhishDestroy Case ID:  PD-20260517-8BCD9D
TLS cert SHA-256:      f51ef7e5f5874b1dcec2028c52ae4cae4ef8b4aa4e31c32872d09c657829d06d

## 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/sterlingassetsmanagement.com/
JSON API:          https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=sterlingassetsmanagement.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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