xn--ethrscan-peb[.]org

The domain xn--ethrscan-peb.org was registered through Dynadot LLC on February 27, 2026. It resolves to the Cloudflare‑owned address 188.114.96.3, which is announced by AS13335 and geolocated to the United States. The certificate presented is a publicly trusted Let’s Encrypt TLS certificate, and the site currently returns HTTP 403 responses.

Infrastructure analysis shows the domain is served by Cloudflare’s DNS with authoritative name servers brianna.ns.cloudflare.com and scott.ns.cloudflare.com. Detected technologies include Cloudflare’s edge services and HTTP/3 support. VirusTotal scans have flagged the domain by 3 of 95 security vendors, while Gridinsoft assigns a trust score of 0 out of 100. The page title advertised as “Etherscan Project Overview” intentionally mirrors the legitimate Etherscan branding.

The threat profile classifies the site as a high‑risk brand‑impersonation campaign targeting the Ethereum ecosystem. The landing page claims to be an Etherscan project, a tactic designed to lure cryptocurrency users into credential or wallet theft. The domain appears on three external blocklists and is actively blocked by PhishDestroy, MetaMask, and SEAL, indicating that multiple security services have identified it as malicious.

Defenders should add xn--ethrscan-peb.org to network and endpoint deny lists, enforce DNS filtering for the associated Cloudflare name servers, and monitor for traffic to 188.114.96.3. Users of Ethereum‑related services should be warned about the counterfeit branding and instructed to verify URLs before entering private keys or credentials. Continuous re‑evaluation is advised, as the actors may shift hosting or modify the page content while the domain remains active.