trade-exodus[.]com

Analysis of trade-exodus.com indicates a high‑risk brand‑impersonation campaign targeting users of the Exodus cryptocurrency wallet. The domain was registered on 9 April 2025 through Gname.com Pte. Ltd. and resolves to the Cloudflare‑managed address 172.67.219.79, an IP located in the United States and associated with AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc.). The site presents the page title “Bitstamp”, a mismatch that suggests the operators are attempting to lure victims by referencing a well‑known exchange while masquerading as Exodus. The TLS certificate is issued by Google Trust Services under the WE1 root, confirming that HTTPS connections are encrypted but does not attest to the legitimacy of the content.

Infrastructure fingerprints show Cloudflare DNS with the authoritative nameservers nicole.ns.cloudflare.com and vin.ns.cloudflare.com, and the service supports HTTP/3, indicating a modern hosting stack. The domain appears on three independent security blocklists and has been actively blocked by PhishDestroy, MetaMask, and the SEAL consortium. VirusTotal scans show ten of ninety‑five AV engines flagging the site, reinforcing the malicious assessment. The campaign is classified as a crypto‑scam, consistent with the brand‑impersonation of Exodus and the misleading “Bitstamp” title.

As of the reporting date the domain is taken offline, but the underlying infrastructure remains under the control of the same Cloudflare account and could be reused for future impersonation attempts. Defenders should add trade‑exodus.com to internal block and alert lists, monitor the associated IP 172.67.219.79 for any re‑activation, and enforce strict verification of any communications that claim to originate from Exodus or Bitstamp. Network security teams should configure DNS filtering to drop queries for the domain and its authoritative nameservers, and endpoint protection should be updated to include the current VirusTotal signatures.