# PhishDestroy threat dossier — vtx-markets.com ================================================================ Fetched: 2026-07-28 17:12:19 UTC Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/vtx-markets.com/ ## VERDICT ---------------------------------------------------------------- CRITICAL THREAT — DO NOT VISIT Composite threat score: 100/100 (PhishDestroy scoring — see methodology below) Scam classification: Fake Exchange ## DETECTION EVIDENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------- VirusTotal: 1/91 security vendors flagged this domain Flagging vendors: Netcraft AlienVault OTX: 2 pulses (threat-intel feed mentions) Public blocklists: listed on 1 independent blocklist ## INFRASTRUCTURE ---------------------------------------------------------------- IP address: 172.67.144.43 (CA, Toronto) ASN: AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. Hosting org: Cloudflare, Inc. Registrar: Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu Nameservers: alexa.ns.cloudflare.com, john.ns.cloudflare.com Registered: 2026-06-11 Expires: 2027-06-11 Page title: Online Trading Platforms | CFDs and Forex Markets | VTX Markets HTTP response: 200 ## TLS CERTIFICATE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Issuer: Google Trust Services / WE1 Expires: 2026-09-18 Status: INVALID chain Fingerprint: 1606d5ae1b9b291863f609e40a93c9a2bf4c3a5bbb64b9def350f26e9a853e8d ## 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: 2026-06-11 (per WHOIS / CT — may reflect a renewal or transfer date, not first-ever registration) First detected: 2026-07-27 08:49:54 UTC (by PhishDestroy tracker) First reported: 2026-07-27 13:34:16 UTC (abuse notice filed) Last verified: 2026-07-28 16:20:22 UTC Current status: ACTIVE / observable ## EXTERNAL CORROBORATION (third-party evidence) ---------------------------------------------------------------- URLScan.io: https://urlscan.io/result/019fa25f-ac4d-7648-8e1d-5e783d7aebe2/ URLQuery: https://urlquery.net/report/df2fbd39-e8e6-410b-871f-309a39e34d04 Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/vtx-markets.com crt.sh CT logs: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.vtx-markets.com Google transparency: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=vtx-markets.com AlienVault OTX: https://otx.alienvault.com/indicator/domain/vtx-markets.com URLhaus: https://urlhaus.abuse.ch/host/vtx-markets.com/ ## ANALYST NARRATIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Generated: 2026-07-27 08:52:29 UTC — narrative may predate facts above. Treat fields in TIMELINE / DETECTION EVIDENCE / INFRASTRUCTURE as authoritative if they differ from the prose below.] vtx-markets.com credential harvesting site detected – high risk Analysis of vtx-markets.com, created on 2026-06-11 and hosted on Cloudflare infrastructure (nameservers alexa.ns.cloudflare.com and john.ns.cloudflare.com, IP 104.21.47.31), indicates a high‑risk credential‑harvesting operation. The domain is listed on a single security blocklist and has been actively blocked by the PhishDestroy feed, demonstrating that at least one anti‑phishing service has observed malicious activity. VirusTotal scans show that 1 of 91 security engines flagged the domain, providing additional corroboration of malicious intent. Registration was performed through Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu, a known registrar that does not inherently imply benign use. No further public data such as SSL certificate details, HTTP response codes, or page titles have been released, so the exact content and targeted brand remain unknown. At present, no public evidence of the specific brand being impersonated or the exact phishing page layout has been disclosed, limiting the ability to attribute the campaign to a particular victim profile. The use of Cloudflare's CDN may obscure the true origin of the hosting server, complicating attribution. The domain's age of less than two months aligns with typical fast‑flux or short‑lived phishing infrastructure. Defenders should add 104.21.47.31 and the domain vtx-markets.com to outbound filtering rules, monitor DNS queries for the Cloudflare nameservers, and consider sharing the indicator with internal threat‑intel platforms. Continuous re‑scanning with VirusTotal and other sandbox services is advised to capture any evolving payloads. Organizations that rely on credential‑based authentication should enforce multi‑factor authentication and educate users about unsolicited login requests that may originate from this domain. ## EVIDENCE HASHES ---------------------------------------------------------------- PhishDestroy Case ID: PD-20260727-232130 TLS cert SHA-256: 1606d5ae1b9b291863f609e40a93c9a2bf4c3a5bbb64b9def350f26e9a853e8d ## 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/vtx-markets.com/ JSON API: https://api.destroy.tools/v1/check?domain=vtx-markets.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: 212,176 domains (86,616 alive under monitoring, 124,530 confirmed takedowns/dead). Site: https://phishdestroy.io