gaovax[.]com

Analysis of the domain gaovax.com, created on December 2, 2025 and taken offline as of the report date July 23, 2026, shows a coordinated brand‑impersonation operation targeting x.com. The site was hosted behind Cloudflare (AS13335) and resolved to the IP address 188.114.97.3, which is registered to Cloudflare, Inc. in the United States. Registration was performed through NiceNIC International Group Co., Limited, and the authoritative nameservers listed were aaden.ns.cloudflare.com and cecelia.ns.cloudflare.com. No SSL certificate was observed, indicating that the site operated without transport‑layer encryption.

The page title retrieved from the site, "Gaovax: Most Popular Online Crypto Casino Based on Blockchain," aligns with the declared scam type of a crypto‑focused gambling scheme and matches the Gambler Scam phishing kit identified in the intelligence. The domain’s trust scores are extremely low, with Scamadviser and Gridinsoft both assigning a rating of 1 out of 100. Detection activity is notable: VirusTotal recorded 17 positive detections out of 95 scanned engines, and the domain appears on a single security blocklist. It has been actively blocked by the PhishDestroy service.

Although the site is currently offline, the infrastructure components—including the Cloudflare IP, registrar, and nameserver configuration—remain reusable for future campaigns. Defenders should continue to monitor the IP 188.114.97.3 and the associated Cloudflare namespace for re‑use, enforce blocklisting of gaovax.com across web filters, and educate users that any unsolicited communications referencing a crypto casino and purporting to originate from x.com are fraudulent. Given the elevated risk rating, organizations handling cryptocurrency or user credentials related to x.com should treat any interaction with this domain as malicious and apply strict outbound traffic controls to prevent data exfiltration.