# PhishDestroy threat dossier — tether-rgold.com ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-29 12:30:49 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/tether-rgold.com/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 6/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Fortinet, Gridinsoft, PhishFort, SOCRadar AlienVault OTX: 2 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions) Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 82.25.96.136 (DE, Frankfurt am Main) ASN: AS47583 Hostinger International Limited Hosting org: HOSTINGER DE Registrar: NAMECHEAP INC Nameservers: ns1.dns-parking.com, ns2.dns-parking.com Registered: 2025-10-24 Expires: 2026-10-24 Page title: Tether-Gold - Home HTTP response: 200 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Let's Encrypt / YE2 Expires: 2026-09-19 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: f5873721664da7792a2201e2f4eb82da311d29357e3dc1c748f7888468e3bcd8 Subject Alternative Names (related infrastructure — often same operator): - www.tether-rgold.com ## 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: 2025-10-24 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-27 08:42:42 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) First reported: 2026-07-27 12:57:04 UTC (abuse notice filed) Last verified: 2026-07-29 12:38:32 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019fa24e-25c8-74c8-ba93-4645d1ef574d/ URLQuery: https://urlquery.net/report/062d3280-ad39-413c-bf28-1a38937a4009 Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/tether-rgold.com crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.tether-rgold.com Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=tether-rgold.com AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/tether-rgold.com URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/tether-rgold.com/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-27 08:44:32 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] tether-rgold.com — Generic Phishing Investigation Analysis of tether-rgold.com shows a newly registered domain (creation date 24 Oct 2025) hosted by Namecheap Inc. The domain remains active and resolves to the IPv4 address 82.25.96.136. DNS resolution is delegated to ns1.dns-parking.com and ns2.dns-parking.com, a pair of parking‑service nameservers commonly used for disposable or malicious infrastructure. VirusTotal reports that two of ninety‑one scanning engines have flagged the domain, indicating that at least a small subset of security products have identified malicious behavior associated with this host. The domain is currently listed on one external security blocklist and is actively blocked by the PhishDestroy mitigation service, reinforcing the assessment that it is being used for phishing‑related activity. No additional public intelligence such as Safe Browsing verdicts, Open Threat Exchange entries, SSL certificate details, HTTP response codes, or page‑title metadata is available at this time, leaving the exact content and targeted brand of the phishing campaign unverified. Defenders should treat tether-rgold.com as high‑risk infrastructure: network perimeter controls ought to deny outbound connections to the IP 82.25.96.136, DNS filtering should block resolution of the domain, and endpoint security solutions should incorporate the two VirusTotal detections into their block lists. Continuous monitoring of DNS query logs for the domain and its associated nameservers is recommended to detect any internal attempts to resolve or contact the host. Because the domain is newly minted and its payload is not yet publicly dissected, threat‑hunting teams should prioritize correlation of any credential‑submission events or login‑page redirects with this indicator to uncover potential victimization patterns. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- PhishDestroy Case ID: PD-20260727-FD30EA Favicon MD5: 9357f7fdceb3014d996363031e88ab8c TLS cert SHA-256: f5873721664da7792a2201e2f4eb82da311d29357e3dc1c748f7888468e3bcd8 ## 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/tether-rgold.com/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=tether-rgold.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 About PhishDestroy: independent open-source threat-intelligence platform. Tracked: 195,406 domains (83,173 alive under monitoring, 109,716 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io