aavestake[.]com

Analysis indicates that the domain aavestake.com was registered on August 01, 2025 through Spaceship, Inc. and is currently taken offline. The site resolves to the Cloudflare IP address 172.67.182.134, which belongs to AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc.) and is geolocated in the United States. The TLS certificate presented is issued by Google Trust Services under the WE1 identifier, confirming the use of a legitimate Certificate Authority. HTTP traffic returns a 523 status code, a Cloudflare‑specific error indicating that the origin server is unreachable, which aligns with the reported offline state.

Technology fingerprints show the presence of Cloudflare services and HTTP/3 protocol support. Brand‑targeting evidence consists of the page title “Aave” and the classification as a crypto‑related scam that impersonates the Aave platform. No additional page content has been captured, so the exact visual or functional mimicry cannot be confirmed. The domain appears on a single security blocklist and has been blocked by the PhishDestroy mitigation service.

Threat intelligence sources include one AlienVault OTX pulse referencing the domain, and VirusTotal reports that one of ninety‑five scanning engines flagged the domain as malicious. No further vendor detections are listed. Given the combination of brand impersonation, malicious classification, and presence on blocklists, defenders should enforce URL filtering to deny traffic to aavestake.com, monitor DNS queries for the associated IP range, and consider adding the domain to internal threat‑intel feeds. Continued observation is advised in case the infrastructure is re‑activated or reused for new campaigns, and any future content should be re‑examined for credential‑harvesting or transaction‑draining mechanisms.