# PhishDestroy threat dossier — tether.sa ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-31 09:39:24 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/tether.sa/ ## 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: 216.150.16.1 (US, Walnut) ASN: AS16509 Amazon.com, Inc. Hosting org: Vercel, Inc Registrar: REGISTRAR_NOT_FOUND Nameservers: ns1.vercel-dns.com, ns2.vercel-dns.com Page title: Tether.sa — متجر بطاقات الهدايا الرقمية و USDT في السعودية | Tether.sa HTTP response: 307 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Let's Encrypt / YR2 Expires: 2026-09-28 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: f8e5b0ab2c6a5f0f6f0e4d0158c7e4e8cff3626174f324b9f3e769e1d11d5663 ## 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- First detected: 2026-07-27 08:23:52 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) Last verified: 2026-07-31 08:20:25 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019fa2f6-eff9-75af-9668-b3eba0f2dbcb/ Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/tether.sa crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.tether.sa Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=tether.sa AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/tether.sa URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/tether.sa/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-27 08:24:56 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] tether.sa — Generic Phishing Investigation The domain tether.sa is currently classified as a high‑risk generic phishing infrastructure and remains active as of the report date, July 27, 2026. Observable evidence indicates that the domain appears on a single security blocklist and is explicitly blocked by the PhishDestroy feed. DNS resolution points to the IPv4 address 216.150.1.1, and authoritative name servers are listed as ns1.vercel-dns.com and ns2.vercel-dns.com, suggesting the use of Vercel’s DNS hosting service for the malicious site. VirusTotal analysis shows that two of ninety‑one security vendors have flagged the domain, providing modest but notable detection confidence. No additional telemetry such as SSL certificate details, HTTP response codes, page title, or content signatures is available in the current intelligence set, leaving the exact landing page characteristics unverified. The limited detection footprint, combined with the presence on a known blocklist, warrants immediate defensive action. Security teams should add tether.sa to domain‑based blocklists, enforce DNS sinkholing for the associated IP address, and monitor outbound traffic to 216.150.1.1 for potential command‑and‑control or data exfiltration attempts. Continuous re‑evaluation is advised, as further analysis may reveal additional indicators of compromise or expand the threat profile. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- Favicon MD5: 5f53defe47fff6f479de1215c6e93ef4 TLS cert SHA-256: f8e5b0ab2c6a5f0f6f0e4d0158c7e4e8cff3626174f324b9f3e769e1d11d5663 ## 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.sa/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=tether.sa 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: 196,255 domains (84,241 alive under monitoring, 27,268 confirmed neutralized). Site: https://phishdestroy.io