treasury-pool-ethena[.]finance

treasury-pool-ethena.finance is currently taken offline, returning HTTP 403 for all requests. The domain resolves to 188.114.96.3, an address owned by AS13335 Cloudflare, Inc. in the United States. Registration was performed through Cloudflare, Inc., and the authoritative name servers are carol.ns.cloudflare.com and marty.ns.cloudflare.com. TLS termination is provided by a Google Trust Services certificate issued to the WE1 organization, indicating a legitimate certificate chain but not guaranteeing benign intent. Dynamic analysis on VirusTotal shows that 15 of 95 scanning engines label the domain as malicious, and two independent blocklists (PhishDestroy and ScamSniffer) have already listed it.

The page title returned by the server is the generic string “Just a moment…”, and no additional content has been captured, leaving the exact phishing lure unclear. The supplied intelligence classifies the activity as an “Investment Scam”, suggesting the site attempts to lure victims with fraudulent financial opportunities, although the specific target brand or campaign is not disclosed. Technical fingerprints include the use of Cloudflare’s edge network and HTTP/3 protocol, which are common in both legitimate and malicious services. The combination of a Cloudflare‑hosted IP, a valid SSL certificate, and a 403 response is a typical pattern for domains that are staged for future activation or that have been seized by takedown actions.

Defenders should immediately block DNS resolution for treasury-pool-ethena.finance and add its IP address 188.114.96.3 to network deny lists. Because the domain is hosted on Cloudflare, monitoring for new sub‑domains or related domains under the same account may provide early warning of re‑use. Security appliances that leverage threat‑intel feeds should ingest the two blocklist entries and the VirusTotal detection count to raise alerts on any attempted connections.