marketplace-activation[.]com

This domain, marketplace-activation.com, was registered on 21 February 2026 and is currently resolved to the IPv4 address 198.12.80.250. The address belongs to the HostPapa hosting provider (AS36352) located in the United States. The site presented an SSL certificate identified as “R11”, which is consistent with certificates commonly observed on malicious infrastructure.

VirusTotal scans returned detections from 11 of 93 submitted security vendors, indicating that a notable minority of AV engines recognize the site as malicious. Independent reputation services corroborate the risk: Gridinsoft assigns a trust score of 0 out of 100, and the domain appears on a single public security blocklist. PhishDestroy has actively blocked the host, and the domain is presently taken offline, which prevents immediate client interaction but does not eliminate the underlying infrastructure.

The combination of a fresh registration date, low‑reputation SSL, a zero trust score, and multiple vendor detections suggests the domain was used for a generic phishing campaign, likely aimed at harvesting credentials or financial information. Defenders should add the domain and its resolving IP address to internal URL filtering and DNS sink‑hole policies, monitor for any re‑appearance of the host on the same IP range, and consider sharing the indicators with industry‑wide blocklist operators. Continuous re‑verification of the SSL fingerprint and periodic VT rescans are recommended to detect any changes in the payload or hosting configuration.