metis[.]beefyhubs[.]click

metis.beefyhubs.click was registered on 22 October 2025 through Dynadot LLC. The domain resolves to IP 172.253.62.147, which is announced by AS15169 Google LLC and geolocated in the United States. Nameserver delegation points to brenna.ns.cloudflare.com and hassan.ns.cloudflare.com, indicating the use of Cloudflare DNS services. No TLS certificate is presented, so the site is served over plain HTTP. The page title returned by the server is "Google", and the brand target field lists Google, confirming that the domain is intended to impersonate the search‑engine brand.

VirusTotal analysis shows that three of ninety‑five scanning engines flag the domain as malicious, and the domain is listed on a single security blocklist. PhishDestroy has actively blocked the site, and the current status in open‑source intelligence sources is "offline", suggesting the hosting has been taken down or the site is otherwise inaccessible. Publicly available evidence does not include a full HTML capture, login form details, or any additional payload information, leaving the exact lure or credential‑harvesting mechanism uncertain.

Defenders should add the domain and its resolved IP address to URL filtering and network‑level block lists, monitor for new resolutions that may reuse the same IP range, and enforce strict HTTPS‑only policies to mitigate potential downgrade attacks. Because the domain leverages Cloudflare’s DNS, future iterations could point to different IP addresses, so continuous DNS watching is advised. Incident response teams should also consider correlating any authentication failures or suspicious traffic to Google services that originate from the identified IP, and update threat‑intel feeds with the observed indicators of compromise.