abanto-ia[.]trade

The domain abanto-ia.trade was registered on September 11, 2025 through OwnRegistrar, Inc. and resolves to the IPv4 address 159.100.6.5, which is hosted by Ultahost, Inc. (AS214036) in Germany. The authoritative nameservers are ns1.ultahost.com, ns2.ultahost.com, ns3.ultahost.com, and ns4.ultahost.com. No TLS certificate is presented for the site, indicating that HTTPS is not configured. The page title returned when the site was reachable was "Abanto IA | Home Page," but no further content analysis is available because the service has been taken offline.

VirusTotal records show that three of ninety‑five scanning engines flagged the domain, providing an early indicator of malicious activity. Independent reputation services have assigned a Gridinsoft trust score of 0 out of 100 and list the domain on a single security blocklist. PhishDestroy has also taken the domain down, confirming that it was identified as a brand‑impersonation vector targeting an unspecified "across" audience. The current HTTP status is offline, preventing real‑time verification of payloads, redirects, or credential‑harvesting pages.

Uncertainty remains regarding the exact brand being spoofed, the phishing kit employed, and whether any active command‑and‑control infrastructure was associated with the domain before takedown. Defenders should continue to block the IPv4 address 159.100.6.5 at network perimeter devices, add abanto-ia.trade to URL filtering and DNS sinkhole lists, and monitor for re‑registration or similar domain patterns leveraging the Ultahost hosting provider. Given the low trust score and multiple detections, any future appearance of the domain should be treated as high‑confidence malicious activity pending further analysis.