PhishDestroy’s intake AI classified graystone-hub.live as malicious because the page claims to be a trading platform offering Forex, Crypto, Commodities and Indices, a pattern typical of fraudulent investment schemes. The domain was first observed by PhishDestroy on 2026-10-25, four days after its registration on 2026-10-21, and responded with an HTTP 308 redirect to the www sub‑domain.
How the scam works
Fake trading platforms lure visitors with promises of high‑return investments in markets such as Forex or cryptocurrency, then request deposits or personal credentials to unlock alleged profits. Victims who send funds or share login details rarely recover them because the site has no legitimate brokerage or regulatory backing.
Evidence
VirusTotal scanned the domain on 2026-10-22 using 92 engines and reported zero detections and zero suspicious flags. Google Safe Browsing checked on 2026-10-25 and did not flag the URL. URLScan captured the site on 2026-10-23 and returned a clean verdict; a second capture on 2026-10-25 was flagged by its machine‑learning engine with a score of 78, though the overall verdict remained non‑malicious. OTX listed two pulses referencing the domain as of 2026-10-25. PhishDestroy’s internal blocklist marked the domain as malicious on 2026-10-25, while no external blocklists reported it.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED on 2026-10-21, giving it an age of three days at first sighting. DNS records captured on 2026-10-22 listed an A record pointing to 216.198.79.1, an address owned by Amazon.com, Inc. in the United States. The site presented a Let's Encrypt certificate issued on 2026-10-21 and expiring on 2027-01-19; DNSSEC was not observed.
What to do
Users should avoid entering any personal or financial information on the site and, if credentials were submitted, change the associated passwords immediately. Organizations should block graystone-hub.live in web filters and monitor logs for connections to the recorded address. No wallet‑approval activity was observed, so wallet‑specific remediation is not required, but continued vigilance for related phishing attempts is advised.
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Separate source record · 0 malicious + 0 suspicious / 92 · 2026-10-22 02:49:01 UTC
The summary above and this provider record were collected at different times. Both remain available; malicious and suspicious classifications are shown separately.
The narrative generation date is separate from observation dates. These are the retained publication fields, not an additional independent detection.
ai_title
graystone-hub.live — Fake Trading Platform Scam
ai_description
PhishDestroy flagged graystone-hub.live as a fake trading platform that claims Forex, Crypto, Commodities and Indices despite being only three days old.
ai_generated_at
2026-10-25T09:10:59Z
ai_generated_by
threat-v3-groq
interpretation
Narrative generation metadata, separate from provider observation dates.
Stored registration data identifies NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED (IANA 3765) as the registrar. PhishDestroy maintains separate NiceNIC abuse-report research; registrar association is contextual and is not an independent detection for this domain.
この gTLD では、上記のレジストラは ICANN の認定契約に基づいて運営されています。以下のリンクから、公式の料金表と現行の DNS 不正利用に関するコンプライアンスガイダンスを確認できます。
認定は契約であり、安全性の認証ではありません。
RAA §3.18 establishes abuse-contact and handling requirements. This report can document stored outbound notices and later technical observations; it does not by itself establish receipt, investigation, remediation, or contractual non-compliance.
Hostnames retained in the domain record or Certificate Transparency cache. A hostname alone does not establish current availability or malicious activity.
www.graystone-hub.liveDomain record
The original observation time is not recorded for these hostnames.
使用技術 · 2 identified
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Vercel
PaaS
Vercel is a cloud platform for static frontends and serverless functions.
Source: availability monitor. Every retained observation remains separate, including records with the same date or evidence hash but different sources or DNS states. An unknown state is not proof that the site is offline.
