finance-cake[.]com

The domain finance-cake.com was registered on July 18, 2025 through the registrar MAT BAO CORPORATION. The site was observed to target the PancakeSwap brand, presenting a page titled “DeFi App V4 — Portal,” which aligns with a crypto‑focused scam profile. Hosting is provided by Cloudflare, Inc. (AS13335) with the IPv4 address 104.21.65.222 located in the United States. The SSL certificate presented for the domain is identified as WE1, indicating a standard Cloudflare‑issued certificate without extended validation.

Reputation checks show a Gridinsoft trust score of 0 out of 100, the lowest possible rating, further corroborating malicious intent. VirusTotal analysis recorded 2 detections out of 93 security vendors, confirming that at least a subset of industry scanners recognize the domain as malicious. The domain appears on one external security blocklist and has been actively blocked by the PhishDestroy service.

Current network monitoring indicates that the site has been taken offline, but the infrastructure footprint remains observable through DNS resolution and historical blocklist entries. Defenders should continue to enforce blocking of the resolved IP address (104.21.65.222) and any associated Cloudflare edge nodes, incorporate the domain into URL filtering policies, and monitor for newly registered domains that mimic PancakeSwap or reuse similar naming patterns. Ongoing vigilance is advised because the underlying hosting provider can rapidly re‑assign the IP to new malicious actors, and the low trust score suggests a high likelihood of re‑use in future fraudulent campaigns.