balancer-chainlink[.]com

The domain balancer-chainlink.com is currently flagged as an active brand‑impersonation campaign targeting Balancer. Infrastructure analysis shows the domain is hosted behind Cloudflare (IP 188.114.97.3, located in Canada) and uses the nameservers johnny.ns.cloudflare.com and leah.ns.cloudflare.com. Registration was completed through NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED, and the site presents a Google Trust Services / WE1 SSL certificate, indicating a legitimate‑looking HTTPS endpoint despite the underlying malicious intent. Threat intelligence sources list the domain in two AlienVault OTX pulses and three public blocklists, and it is actively blocked by PhishDestroy, MetaMask, and SEAL. VirusTotal scans have resulted in nine of ninety‑one security vendors flagging the domain. The HTTP response returns a 521 status (“Web server is down”), which is a common tactic to hide content until a victim interacts with a lure. Defenders should continue to block the domain at perimeter and DNS layers, monitor for any new resolution changes, and enforce email and web filtering rules that reference the listed blocklists. Because the site’s content has not been publicly captured, the exact phishing page layout remains unknown; analysts should treat any communications referencing Balancer or Chainlink as potentially malicious until verified.