kucoinporn[.]com

Analysis of kucoinporn.com, a domain created on 22 February 2025 and registered through Gname.com Pte. Ltd., indicates a deliberate brand impersonation aimed at the cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin. The site lacks an SSL certificate and resolves to IP address 104.21.16.1, which belongs to Cloudflare, Inc. (AS13335) and is geolocated in the United States. The domain is served by the Cloudflare nameservers celeste.ns.cloudflare.com and kyrie.ns.cloudflare.com. Reputation services have placed the domain on one security blocklist, and PhishDestroy explicitly blocks it.

VirusTotal scans show that eight of ninety‑five security vendors flagged the domain, reinforcing the assessment of malicious behavior. The page title returned by the HTTP response is "kucoinporn.com," matching the domain name and providing no additional context about the payload. The site is currently taken offline, which limits immediate interaction but does not remove the underlying infrastructure. Defenders should continue to monitor the associated IP address for any resurgence of malicious activity, enforce blocklisting of the domain and its IP in network filters, and update threat intelligence feeds with the observed indicators.

Because the site was identified as a crypto‑related scam, security teams should also alert users of KuCoin and related cryptocurrency services to the existence of this impersonation attempt. Further investigation is needed to determine whether additional assets share the same hosting profile or whether the domain was part of a broader campaign, as the current data set does not reveal any ancillary infrastructure. Recommended actions include tightening domain‑based egress controls, ensuring TLS inspection policies flag non‑HTTPS traffic to this host, and sharing the indicator set with industry sharing platforms to improve collective detection capability.