bridge-whatsapp[.]hl[.]cn

The domain bridge-whatsapp.hl.cn was registered on March 23, 2026 through the registrar 万商云集（成都）科技股份有限公司 and is currently taken offline. DNS resolution points to the Cloudflare‑owned address 104.21.35.216, hosted in Canada, with authoritative nameservers gerald.ns.cloudflare.com and tia.ns.cloudflare.com. The site presented a page title identical to Microsoft’s marketing language – "Microsoft – AI, Cloud, Produktivität, Computing, Gaming und Apps" – and is classified as a tech‑support scam that impersonates Microsoft. Infrastructure analysis shows the presence of Azure Front Door, Azure services, Microsoft Ajax Content Delivery Network, jQuery, HSTS enforcement, and Akamai components, suggesting the actors leveraged legitimate cloud services to increase credibility.

The SSL certificate is issued by Let’s Encrypt (R12), providing a valid HTTPS endpoint. Security telemetry indicates the domain appears on a single blocklist and was specifically flagged by PhishDestroy. Gridinsoft assigned a trust score of 0 / 100, reflecting extreme malicious confidence.

VirusTotal records show 12 of 94 scanned security vendors flagged the domain, confirming a consensus of malicious behavior. Defenders should immediately add bridge-whatsapp.hl.cn to URL filtering and DNS blocklists, monitor for similar naming patterns that combine “bridge‑whatsapp” with regional subdomains, and enforce strict content‑security policies for any outbound traffic to Cloudflare‑hosted IPs that surface Azure‑related headers without a legitimate business need. Continuous re‑evaluation of the domain’s status is advised, as the current offline state may be temporary and the underlying infrastructure could be repurposed for future impersonation campaigns.