search-adobe.us is an impersonation phishing site that poses as Adobe, aimed at people who use Adobe accounts for Creative Cloud, Acrobat and document sharing. PhishDestroy first flagged it on 2026-08-31. As of 2026-10-19 the domain was still alive and serving a redirect, so it remains a live risk to anyone who lands on it.
How the scam works
The page sets its browser title to Adobe's own official web address, so a victim glancing at the tab sees what looks like the real site. The domain name adds to the illusion by combining 'search' with the brand, the kind of name that slips past someone clicking a search result, a shared-document notice or an email link. Impersonation pages like this usually present a familiar Adobe sign-in or 'view document' prompt and capture whatever is typed. Victims can lose their Adobe account, the files stored in it, and any other service where the same password is reused.
Evidence
On 2026-09-14, 6 of 89 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain: alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, Gridinsoft and SOCRadar. That is a modest count, so many security tools will still let the page load without a warning. Other sources are firmer. Spamhaus lists the domain in its DBL under the phishing category, MetaMask and SEAL block it alongside PhishDestroy, and it appears in 4 AlienVault OTX threat pulses.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through Dynadot Inc on 2026-07-21, 41 days before PhishDestroy detected it. That gap suggests it was set up in advance rather than used the moment it was bought. Traffic runs through Cloudflare, with the address geolocated to Canada, which hides the actual origin server. The certificate comes from Google Trust Services, so the browser padlock appears as normal and says nothing about whether the site is genuine.
What to do
If you entered an Adobe email and password on this site, change your Adobe password right away from Adobe's official app or a bookmarked address. Then turn on two-step verification and sign out all active sessions. Change the password anywhere you reused it, and check your Adobe account for unfamiliar devices, shared files or billing changes. Treat any follow-up email about 'document access' or 'account verification' as suspect. Defenders should block search-adobe.us at DNS and the web proxy, and search mail and proxy logs for users who reached it so their credentials can be reset.
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 22:32:30 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-19 22:32:30 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.
使用技術 · 12 identified
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Adobe Experience Manager
CMS
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) is a content management solution for building websites, mobile apps and forms.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive cloud services platform offering compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality.
Cloudflare is a web-infrastructure and website-security company, providing content-delivery-network services, DDoS mitigation, Internet security, and distributed domain-name-server services.
Amazon S3 or Amazon Simple Storage Service is a service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides object storage through a web service interface.
Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds.
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
This report combines saved page captures, registration and network records, scanner results and PhishDestroy reporting history. Each source keeps its own observation date. Open a source report to inspect the original result.
The AI-assisted analysis was written on . It describes the evidence available at that time; later source checks can change.
A capture documents what was shown. A scanner result records that provider’s assessment at the time of its check. Neither a valid certificate nor a zero-detection result is a guarantee of safety.
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