airdrop[.]espresso[.]claims

On 24 July 2026 the domain airdrop.espresso.claims was observed to be inactive after being taken offline. The domain was registered on 23 December 2025 through NiceNIC International Group Co., Limited and is delegated to the Cloudflare nameservers kyle.ns.cloudflare.com and nadia.ns.cloudflare.com. DNS resolution points to the IP address 172.67.182.105, which belongs to AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. and is geolocated in the United States. No SSL/TLS certificate is presented for the host, indicating that any prior HTTP service operated without encryption. The site advertised a page titled “Espresso Claim Portal” and was classified as a wallet/seed phishing operation that impersonates the brand “foundation”.

Threat intelligence from VirusTotal shows that six of ninety‑three scanning engines flagged the domain as malicious. Independent blocklist services PhishDestroy and ScamSniffer have also listed the domain, and two additional security blocklists contain it. The Gridinsoft trust score is recorded as 0 out of 100, reinforcing the malicious assessment. Evidence suggests that the infrastructure relied exclusively on Cloudflare’s CDN, a common tactic to obscure origin servers and to benefit from Cloudflare’s automatic mitigation features. The absence of a TLS certificate and the domain’s offline status limit current visibility into the exact payload or credential‑harvesting mechanisms that were delivered.

Analysts cannot confirm whether the page served a form, a malicious binary, or a redirect to a cryptocurrency wallet address, as the content was not captured before takedown. Defenders should continue to block the domain at network perimeter and DNS layers, and add the associated IP address 172.67.182.105 to threat‑intel feeds. Monitoring for any re‑registration of the domain or for similar sub‑domains that employ the same “espresso” keyword is recommended.