admin[.]coinbase-defi-pro[.]com

The domain admin.coinbase-defi-pro.com was registered on March 13, 2026 through NameSilo, LLC and uses the authoritative name servers ns1.dnsowl.com, ns2.dnsowl.com, and ns3.dnsowl.com. DNS resolution points to IP address 45.32.173.182, which belongs to AS20473 The Constant Company, LLC and is geolocated in the United States. The site served an SSL certificate issued by Let’s Encrypt (R12) and was observed to run Nginx with HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) enabled. The page title returned by the server was "admin.coinbase-defi-pro.com/".

Google Safe Browsing classified the URL as a social engineering threat, and VirusTotal recorded detections from 12 out of 94 security vendors, indicating a moderate level of malicious confidence. The domain is listed on three public security blocklists and is actively blocked by PhishDestroy, MetaMask, and SEAL, reflecting consensus among threat‑mitigation services that the infrastructure is associated with a crypto‑related scam. The reported threat type is brand impersonation targeting Coinbase, specifically described as a crypto scam. The current operational status is offline, which may limit immediate interaction but does not remove the underlying risk to users who have previously accessed the site or might encounter cached references.

Defenders should continue to block the domain at network perimeters, update proxy and DNS filtering rules to include the identified IP and name server range, and monitor for any re‑registration attempts. Incident response teams should also consider the domain’s association with existing phishing kits and ensure that any internal credential‑phishing detection mechanisms are tuned to flag references to the Coinbase brand in conjunction with the observed infrastructure. Since the site is no longer reachable, retrospective analysis of logs for connections to 45.32.173.182 or queries for admin.coinbase-defi-pro.com is recommended to identify compromised endpoints.