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“TetherMax: The World's Highest Cashback”

Threat verdict Critical 81/100 evidence score
Availability Last known active Latest stored reachability observation
Risk signals
VirusTotal detections: 3/90 Brand impersonation: Across Last known active
OTX: 4 refs Aug 27, 2026 Across CDN
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This domain has been flagged as malicious
Security engines reporting a detection: 3. Exercise extreme caution — do not enter credentials or personal information.

Evidence Summary

CRITICAL
Score
81/100

PhishDestroy first observed tethermax.io on Aug 27, 2026. Stored content metadata identifies Across as the apparent target. The captured page title is “TetherMax: The World's Highest Cashback”. Page analysis recorded additional brand references to Binance, Bitget, Bybit, Coinmarketcap, Compound, Ethereum, Kucoin, Mexc, OKX, Telegram, and YouTube. Stored page analysis classifies the content as impersonation. Campaign clustering links the hostname to the Unknown kit. Current evidence score: 81/100 (critical).

One source contains a positive finding: VirusTotal. VirusTotal recorded 3 detections among 90 engines: alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Gridinsoft on Sep 6, 2026 at 05:16 UTC. Non-positive and contextual checks: On Sep 6, 2026 at 05:18 UTC, AlienVault OTX listed 4 community pulse references (not vendor detections); Google Safe Browsing returned no flag. The separate external-blocklist snapshot contained no matches on Sep 21, 2026 at 06:20 UTC. URLScan completed without a malicious verdict (score 0) on Sep 19, 2026 at 03:30 UTC.

HTTP 307 was recorded on Sep 21, 2026 at 01:50 UTC. At collection time, the hostname resolved to 104.18.7.248 on AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc.). The IP and ASN identify shared Cloudflare edge infrastructure; the origin server is not established by this address. DOM analysis on Sep 17, 2026 at 02:20 UTC returned 81/100. The evidence archive retains 1 visual capture from PhishDestroy. IoC extraction on Sep 17, 2026 at 04:00 UTC retained 0 format-validated wallet addresses and 1 Telegram indicator. TLS metadata lists Google Trust Services as the certificate issuer with validity through Oct 25, 2026; checked Sep 4, 2026 at 22:02 UTC.

Stored content provides classification context, but only one source contains a positive finding.

VirusTotal
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3 det.
OTX references
4 community refs
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TLS Certificate
Google Trust Services
Observed status
Last known active 307
PhishDestroy
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Listed
Data coverage VirusTotal 3 / 90 OTX 4 community references CF Radar scan completed URLScan capture stored report URLScan verdict Analysis completed TLS valid certificate, 49d WHOIS not parsed Screenshot external capture

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 6, 2026 · 00:14 UTC
    VirusTotal scanner detections updated from 1 to 3. Added scanner alerts: CRDF, Gridinsoft, alphaMountain.ai. Resolved alerts: PhishFort.
  2. Threat First Observed Sep 4, 2026 · 22:43 UTC
    Domain ingestion complete. Initial state is marked as alive.

Threat Response Pipeline

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Availability
12/14

Public Blocklist Status

Evasion analysis

Cloaking & traffic-distribution check

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Stored cloaking flag
Not yet scanned
Last cloaking scan
Server header seen by scanner
cloudflare

Scanner note: redirect: raw=redirect_307; http=307; via=https_proxy; location=/fr; server=cloudflare

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Stored Capture · 1 source

Primary capture 1 / 1
SourcePrimary capture
Captured2026-09-17 08:22 UTC
StateStored capture
Position1 / 1
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Domain Intelligence

Domain
URLScan Verdict Analysis completed score 0 report ↗
Telegram IoCs 1 extracted https://t.me/tethermax_official
Server / ASN cloudflare · AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.
IP Reputation abuse score 0/100 0 reports checked Sep 5, 2026
OTX Tags 2026-08activeall-domainsblocklistcontentcryptodomainsdrainerfraudlivemonthlyphishdestroyphishingscam
HTTP Status307 Temporary Redirect
Technical detailsDNS, SSL SANs, timestamps
First DetectedAug 27, 2026
DOM Analysisanalyzed Sep 17, 2026score 81/10012 brand signals
IoC Extractionscanned Sep 17, 20260 wallet · 1 Telegram IoC
MX Records10 mailapp.hiworks.co.kr
TLS Fingerprint
TLS Observationvalid from Jul 27, 2026scanned Sep 5, 2026
Favicon Hash
Page Title
TetherMax: The World's Highest Cashback
Impersonates
Across Binance Bitget Bybit Coinmarketcap Compound Ethereum Kucoin +4
TLS Certificate
Valid transport encryption · Issued by Google Trust Services · valid for 49 days
Technologies · 12 identified
Detected via Cloudflare Radar · Wappalyzer engine
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VirusTotal Analysis

3 / 90 security vendors flagged this domain
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Last analyzed First positive detection Previous stored snapshot: 3 detections
alphaMountain.ai
CRDF
Gridinsoft

Community intelligence

1 community report

CategoryIMPERSONATION

Brand abuse: impersonation, fake affiliation, impersonating Tether

Evidence & External Reports

Security Analysis
URLScan Analyzed VirusTotal 3 det. ChainPatrol ChainAbuse 1 report URLQuery Open lookup SSL Labs Stored TLS valid CF Radar Open report OTX 4 refs WOT ScamAdviser Blacklist Checker URLVoid Sucuri SiteCheck MDN Observatory
Third-Party Detection — ChainAbuse
1 report filed for tethermax.io · category: Impersonation · source checked
Flagged by automated brand-abuse detection on Aug 27, 2026 — automated submission, not a user testimony. Source: ChainAbuse (TRM Labs).
OSINT & Intelligence
Web-Check Full scan SOCRadar Dark web report LeakIX Leak search Shodan Censys ThreatFox Hudson Rock Sign-in search IntelX crt.sh Certs WHOIS Wayback
DNS & Network
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SEO & Domain
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