santa-squid[.]entry-cryptolist[.]app

Analysis of santa-squid.entry-cryptolist.app shows it is currently active and classified with an elevated risk rating. The domain appears on a single security blocklist and is explicitly blocked by the PhishDestroy filtering service, indicating that at least one commercial feed has identified malicious intent. VirusTotal reports that 16 of 91 scanned security vendors flag the domain as malicious, providing a moderate consensus of detection across independent scanners.

DNS resolution points to the IPv4 address 188.114.96.3; no additional A or AAAA records were observed, and the authoritative name server query returned NS_NOT_FOUND, suggesting that the domain’s nameserver configuration is either missing or deliberately concealed. The hosting IP belongs to a network that is frequently reused by threat actors, but without further attribution the infrastructure cannot be linked to a specific campaign. No public SSL certificate details, HTTP response codes, or page title information are available, leaving the content of the site unverified.

Defenders should immediately add the domain to deny lists on perimeter firewalls, DNS resolvers, and proxy devices, and ensure that endpoint protection solutions are updated to include the 16 vendor detections reported by VirusTotal. Continuous monitoring of the IP address 188.114.96.3 for new associations is advised, as well as periodic re‑query of the domain’s DNS records to detect any future changes in name server configuration. Because the evidence base is limited to blocklist presence and vendor detections, organizations should treat any inbound traffic to this domain as potentially malicious and apply standard phishing mitigation controls such as user education, email sandboxing, and multi‑factor authentication enforcement.