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ネットワークセキュリティインテリジェンス Registrar context
Registrar contextNiceNIC
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.
stearmrip.com is a Steam impersonation phishing page. It presents itself as "STEAMRIP » Free Pre-installed Steam Games" and targets gamers looking for free downloads of Steam titles. The domain swaps letters in a familiar name, so a hasty typist or someone clicking a search result can land there without noticing. PhishDestroy first flagged it on 2026-10-07, and it was still online and serving content on 2026-10-19.
How the scam works
The page title advertises free, pre-installed Steam games, which is a common lure for people who want paid titles without paying. Sites built this way use the Steam name to look trustworthy, then push visitors to sign in with Steam credentials or download installers that the operator controls. A captured login can give the operator the account, its game library and any inventory items, while a rigged download can put malware on the computer. The title describes a game-download portal, and we classified the site as impersonation of Steam.
Evidence
On 2026-10-15, 6 of 92 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain: alphaMountain.ai, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar and Sophos. That is a low count, but six independent vendors agreeing within weeks of registration still matters. Spamhaus lists the domain in its DBL as spam, and it appears in 2 AlienVault OTX threat pulses. PhishDestroy carries it on its blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered on 2026-09-29 through NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED. It was flagged eight days later, which fits a site set up quickly to catch traffic. It sits behind Cloudflare in the US, so the real origin server is hidden behind the proxy. The Let's Encrypt certificate means the browser padlock shows up, but it only encrypts the connection and says nothing about who runs the site.
What to do
If you entered your Steam username and password here, change the password from the official Steam client right away. Enable Steam Guard, check active sessions and authorized devices, and review any recent trade offers or market listings. If you downloaded and ran anything from the site, disconnect the machine and run a full antivirus scan. After that, change the passwords for accounts you used on that computer, starting with email. Defenders should block the domain at DNS and the web proxy and look for earlier visits in their logs.
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
Evidence layersAvailability: Content servingContent: Content served at rootDNS: ResolvedRegistration: Active
Latest HTTP observationコンテンツ公開中Ordinary HTTP content served90%2026-10-20 02:43:55 UTC
RDAP registrationアクティブNICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED · IANA 3765RDAP HTTP 200source: Rdap Status CollectorclientDeleteProhibitedclientTransferProhibitedexpires 2027-09-29 16:26:30 UTCchecked 2026-10-11 04:46:08 UTC
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-20 02:43:55 UTClast content: 2026-10-20 02:43:55 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 · 6 identified
Google Hosted Libraries
CDN
Google Hosted Libraries is a stable, reliable, high-speed, globally available content distribution network for the most popular, open-source JavaScript libraries.
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
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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