kaneko.co poses as the official download portal for Hit Club, a Vietnamese-language gaming and betting brand. Its page title promises the 'chính chủ' (genuine) Hit Club app for Android and iOS for 2026. The domain name has no connection to Hit Club, and PhishDestroy classifies it as impersonation phishing. We first flagged it on 2026-07-27, and on 2026-10-19 the site was still online and redirecting visitors onward.
How the scam works
Lookalike Hit Club portals rely on people searching for an app download outside the official stores. Victims are pushed to install a package from an unofficial source or to sign up and deposit money through the copycat site. The likely losses are login credentials, deposited funds, and on Android a sideloaded app that can harvest personal data. Because the site redirects, the page a visitor finally lands on can change without the domain itself changing.
Evidence
On 2026-10-01, VirusTotal showed 5 of 91 engines flagging the domain: alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Gridinsoft and SOCRadar. That is a low count, so many browsers and security tools may still let the site load without a warning. The domain also appears in three AlienVault OTX threat pulses, which means other researchers have tracked it separately from us. It is listed on the PhishDestroy blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain is registered through Spaceship, Inc., and its current registration date is 2026-08-24. That is about four weeks after our first sighting. The site sits behind Cloudflare, with the edge address located in Canada, so the IP address is shared and does not identify the real origin server. Its certificate comes from Google Trust Services, so the browser padlock only confirms an encrypted connection and says nothing about whether the site is legitimate.
What to do
If you installed an app from this site, uninstall it, run a mobile security scan, and on iOS remove any configuration or enterprise profile it asked you to trust. Change any password you entered there and enable two-factor authentication wherever that password is reused. If you deposited money, contact your bank or payment provider right away, and do not pay any further 'unlock' or withdrawal fees. Defenders should block kaneko.co by domain name rather than by IP, since the Cloudflare address is shared with many unrelated sites, and should watch for other domains using the same Hit Club page title.
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
Latest HTTP observationRedirectingHTTP redirect observed80%2026-10-19 22:35:06 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-19 22:35:06 UTC
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.
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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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The AI-assisted analysis was written on . It describes the evidence available at that time; later source checks can change.
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