kgtrx[.]com

kgtrx.com was observed in multiple security feeds as a cryptocurrency‑focused impersonation campaign targeting Ethereum users. The domain was registered on 22 May 2023 through Dynadot LLC and resolves to the Cloudflare‑owned address 188.114.97.3, which is announced by AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc.) and located in the United States. DNS resolution uses the Cloudflare authoritative name servers luke.ns.cloudflare.com and nancy.ns.cloudflare.com, and the site is served over TLS using a certificate issued by SSL Corporation / Cloudflare TLS Issuing ECC CA 3. HTTP traffic is delivered via Cloudflare with HTTP/3 enabled. The public page title returned by the site reads “Buy/Sell Bitcoin, Ethereum and Altcoin | Spot / Perpetual Trading | kgtrx Cryptocurrency Exchange”, indicating an attempt to present a trading platform that mimics legitimate crypto exchanges.

The domain appears on two independent blocklists—PhishDestroy and ScamSniffer—and is listed in one AlienVault OTX pulse. VirusTotal scans reported three detections out of ninety‑five vendors, and Gridinsoft assigned a trust score of 1 / 100, reflecting a highly malicious reputation. The site’s current status is offline, suggesting the operators have taken it down or are rotating infrastructure. No additional content, login forms, or malicious payloads have been captured, so the full scope of the phishing or drainer functionality remains unknown. Nevertheless, the combination of a brand‑specific title, low trust scores, blocklist listings, and TLS certificate details provides sufficient indicators for defensive controls.

Defenders should immediately block resolution of kgtrx.com and its associated IP address 188.114.97.3 at network perimeter devices. The domain should be added to internal URL filtering, DNS sink‑hole, and endpoint protection rule sets.