uk[.]paying-ja[.]vip

The domain uk.paying-ja.vip was registered on December 16, 2025 through Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn) and is currently listed as offline. DNS resolution points to the IPv6 address 2a04:4e42:600::144, which is announced by AS54113 Fastly, Inc. in the United States. No TLS certificate is presented for the host, meaning connections are unencrypted. The site returned the page title "Welcome to GOV.UK," suggesting an attempt to impersonate the official UK government portal.

Threat intelligence feeds show that twelve of ninety‑five VirusTotal scanners flagged the domain as malicious, and Gridinsoft assigned a trust score of zero out of one hundred, indicating a high likelihood of abuse. The domain appears on a single external blocklist and has been actively blocked by the PhishDestroy service. Nameserver records are dns31.hichina.com and dns32.hichina.com, both operated by the same registrar. The overall risk rating is elevated.

While the exact payload or credential‑harvesting mechanism has not been observed, the convergence of vendor detections, a zero trust score, and the use of a government‑related page title strongly imply a credential‑phishing campaign targeting users of the UK government services. Defensive teams should continue to block the domain and its resolved IP address at perimeter controls, monitor for related Fastly edge nodes, and update URL filtering policies to include the observed page title. Additional analysis of any captured network traffic may reveal the downstream command‑and‑control endpoints or exfiltration paths. Because the site is offline, ongoing surveillance is recommended to detect any re‑hosting attempts or similar domains using the same registration and hosting patterns.