This domain hosted a crypto wallet drainer disguised as WalletConnect, the widely used protocol for connecting crypto wallets to decentralized applications. It targets everyday wallet users who expect a legitimate connection interface. PhishDestroy first detected it on 2026-09-07, just weeks after it was stood up. The site is now offline and DNS-inactive as of 2026-09-11, confirmed dead on 2026-10-19.
How the scam works
The page presented itself under the title "Wallet Connect", mimicking the real WalletConnect brand to earn the victim's trust. When a user connects their wallet through the fake interface, the drainer silently requests broad token approvals or triggers malicious transaction signatures. Once granted, the attacker's contract sweeps the victim's tokens and NFTs in a single automated transaction, leaving nothing to reverse. The victim typically sees only a routine-looking connection prompt before their funds are gone.
Evidence
VirusTotal returned 14 malicious detections out of 89 engines checked on 2026-09-08, with flagging vendors including BitDefender, CRDF, CyRadar, Ermes, ESET, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, and G-Data. urlscan.io independently rendered the page and issued a malicious verdict, identifying WalletConnect as the impersonated brand. The domain appears on the PhishDestroy blocklist. Fourteen independent engines agreeing across multiple threat-intelligence vendors is strong corroboration of the drainer classification.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered on 2026-08-11 through NAMECHEAP INC, giving the operators less than a month of lead time before the site went live. Hosting ran on Cloudflare, Inc. infrastructure with a Canadian-geolocated IP of 188.114.96.3. The TLS certificate was issued by Google Trust Services under the WE1 intermediate, providing the site with a padlock that would not by itself signal danger to visitors.
What to do
If you visited this site and connected a wallet, treat the connection as compromised immediately. Use a tool such as Revoke.cash or your wallet's built-in approval manager to revoke every token approval granted around the time of the visit. Transfer remaining assets to a fresh wallet address that has never interacted with this domain. If you signed any transaction you did not fully understand, assume those funds are lost and report the incident to your wallet provider. Security teams should ensure this domain and its parent zone nexusqalinka2.quest are blocked at the DNS and firewall level.
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Certificate fingerprint78f91f8beebbdfb011a54adac6e33ba6c9fb78fc07519ea5f91e312d4ea9c371Certificate names · 1 SANs
nexusqalinka2.quest
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
Primary outcomeDNS 非アクティブreason: DNS NXDOMAIN80% confidence
Attributionsource: Dns Cache
Evidence layersAvailability: DNS inactiveContent: UnreachableDNS: NXDOMAINRegistration: Unknown
Latest HTTP observation不明Probe Inconclusive20%2026-10-19 01:13:39 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-09-07 22:14:26 UTCcurrent episode first observed: 2026-09-30 16:14:55 UTCobserved RIP window: 2026-09-07 22:14:26 UTC → 2026-09-30 16:14:55 UTC · 546.01hmidpoint estimate ≈ 2026-09-19 07:14:40 UTC · precision low · basis bounded
Availability, content, DNS and registration are independent evidence layers. NXDOMAIN, an unreachable origin or missing content alone does not prove registrar action. A registrar or provider is credited only when a direct technical marker identifies that actor. Report causality is shown separately.
使用技術 · 3 identified
Cloudflare Browser Insights
AnalyticsRUM
Cloudflare Browser Insights is a tool that measures the performance of websites from the perspective of users.
Cloudflare is a web-infrastructure and website-security company, providing content-delivery-network services, DDoS mitigation, Internet security, and distributed domain-name-server services.
Keep original emails, receipts, messages and screenshots in a secure place. A factual timeline helps the receiving authority understand what happened. IC3 evidence guidance ↗
Payment records — if you paid, save the receipt, amount, date, payment provider and recipient details.
Your bank or payment provider — contact its fraud team promptly through official contact details if money or card information was exposed.
地元の警察 — たとえ直ちに行動を起こせなくても、公式な記録が残される
A report is not a guarantee of recovery or investigation, but prompt, accurate transaction data can help authorities and service providers trace the incident.
詐欺による金銭の返還を装った詐欺 — fraudsters pose as recovery agents and demand upfront fees. Never share a seed phrase or pay before independently verifying the provider
About this reportSources, observation dates and corrections
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