This throwaway address on Cloudflare's workers.dev platform hosted an impersonation phishing page built around Cloudflare's own branding. It targets everyday visitors who are used to seeing Cloudflare security and verification screens and tend to trust them. PhishDestroy first saw it on 2026-09-11. The site went offline on 2026-09-19 and was still dead, with its content blocked by the provider, when we last checked on 2026-10-19.
How the scam works
Impersonation pages of this kind copy the look of a familiar service so that a visitor follows the prompts without suspicion. Pages that borrow Cloudflare's identity usually pose as a security or "verify you are human" check. They then push the visitor to type in credentials or to follow on-screen instructions that end up handing over account access or running something harmful on their own device. The page title now reads "Suspected Phishing | Cloudflare", which is Cloudflare's own warning interstitial rather than the original lure. We classified the site as impersonation phishing.
Evidence
On 2026-09-20, 11 of 89 VirusTotal engines flagged the address. They include BitDefender, ESET, Emsisoft, Fortinet, G-Data, Kaspersky, LevelBlue and Lionic, a spread of independent vendors that does not rely on any single feed. urlscan.io returned a malicious verdict and matched the page to generic Cloudflare branding, which confirms what was being imitated. The site is listed on the PhishDestroy blocklist.
Infrastructure
The operator did not register a domain. They spun up a free Cloudflare Workers subdomain under a random-looking account name. That makes the page cheap to deploy and easy to replace once it is blocked. Traffic resolved to Cloudflare's network with a Canadian location, and the certificate came from Google Trust Services, as is standard for workers.dev hosts, so the padlock said nothing about legitimacy. The page lasted about eight days from our first sighting before going dark on 2026-09-19.
What to do
If you entered a password on this page, change it at once on that service and on any other account that shares it, then turn on or reset two-factor authentication. If the page told you to copy, paste or run anything on your computer, disconnect from the network, run a full scan with a reputable security tool and check for unfamiliar programs or browser extensions. Real Cloudflare checks never ask for account passwords or ask you to run commands. Defenders should block this hostname, watch for similar random workers.dev subdomains that use Cloudflare-themed lures, and report new ones to Cloudflare's abuse team.
Certificate fingerprint101f018acbba55c7d2096990a13e77445db068a476ad6aa59b8aaaae12133074Certificate names · 1 SANs
eugeniebenoits397.workers.dev
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
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