Results reflect each source’s collection time. Zero detections do not guarantee safety. OTX references are community publications.
网络安全情报 Registrar context
Registrar contextTrustname
Stored registration data identifies Trustname / Fewmoretaps OÜ (IANA 4318) as the registrar. PhishDestroy maintains a separate registrar investigation; that material is contextual and is not an independent detection for this domain.
pdf-exploit.com presents itself as "PDF Exploit - EXE to PDF Converter," a tool that supposedly hides executable programs inside PDF documents. PhishDestroy classifies it as an impersonation phishing page. Its audience is people shopping for offensive tooling, including would-be attackers and the curious. We first flagged the domain on 2026-09-05, and it was still online with live content on 2026-10-19.
How the scam works
The page title advertises a malware-building service, while our classification is impersonation phishing. Pages like this rely on a simple bet: anyone searching for an exploit builder is unlikely to complain to anyone when the product turns out to be fake. Victims are typically asked to pay, often in cryptocurrency, for a license or download. They then receive nothing, or they receive a file that compromises their own machine. The buyer's money is lost, and any download can expose their device, saved passwords and wallets.
Evidence
On 2026-09-18, VirusTotal showed 7 of 89 engines flagging the domain. The vendors were alphaMountain.ai, Bfore.Ai PreCrime, CRDF, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar and Webroot. That is a modest count, but these vendors work independently and include both reputation feeds and predictive engines, which makes their agreement meaningful. The domain also appears in 4 AlienVault OTX pulses, so other researchers have tracked it as well. Among blocklists, it is currently listed by PhishDestroy.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered on 2026-05-09 through Fewmoretaps OU d/b/a Trustname.com, roughly four months before we detected it. That gap suggests the site ran quietly for some time before anyone flagged it. Traffic passes through Cloudflare, Inc., with the serving address geolocated to Canada. Because of this, the origin server's real location is hidden behind the proxy.
What to do
If you paid this site, treat the money as gone and report the transaction to your payment provider or the exchange you sent funds from. Do not open any file downloaded from the site. If you already ran one, disconnect the machine, scan it with up-to-date security software, and move any cryptocurrency from wallets on that device to a fresh wallet created elsewhere. Then change your passwords and enable 2FA from a separate, clean device. Defenders should block the domain at DNS and proxy level and review logs for visits or downloads from it.
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
Evidence layersAvailability: Content servingContent: Content served at rootDNS: ResolvedRegistration: Unknown
Latest HTTP observation内容在线Ordinary HTTP content served90%2026-10-19 22:32:06 UTC
RDAP registration未知
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-19 22:35:36 UTClast content: 2026-10-19 22:32:06 UTC
Availability, content, DNS and registration are independent evidence layers. NXDOMAIN, an unreachable origin or missing content alone does not prove registrar action. A registrar or provider is credited only when a direct technical marker identifies that actor. Report causality is shown separately.
Cloudflare is a web-infrastructure and website-security company, providing content-delivery-network services, DDoS mitigation, Internet security, and distributed domain-name-server services.
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After a phishing incident
针对受害者的建议与指导
Choose the steps that match what you shared. Keep a copy of this report alongside your own records.
我应该立即采取什么措施？
紧急
Stop using the suspicious site. Open the real service through its official app or an address you already trust.
更改所有密码 — 电子邮件、Exchange 账户，以及任何使用同一密码的账户
启用双因素认证 使用身份验证器应用（而非短信）。禁用基于短信的恢复功能
冻结卡片 如果您在钓鱼网站上输入了银行信息
我应该为报告收集哪些信息？
联邦调查局（FBI）指南
Keep original emails, receipts, messages and screenshots in a secure place. A factual timeline helps the receiving authority understand what happened. IC3 evidence guidance ↗
Payment records — if you paid, save the receipt, amount, date, payment provider and recipient details.
Your bank or payment provider — contact its fraud team promptly through official contact details if money or card information was exposed.
当地警方 — 即使无法立即采取行动，也能留下正式记录
A report is not a guarantee of recovery or investigation, but prompt, accurate transaction data can help authorities and service providers trace the incident.
How do phishing scams typically work?
虚假网站 — 与正规网站完全一致的克隆网站，仅域名略有改动
猪的屠宰 — 通过Telegram/WhatsApp/交友软件花数周时间建立信任，随后钱被骗走
退款诈骗 — fraudsters pose as recovery agents and demand upfront fees. Never share a seed phrase or pay before independently verifying the provider
About this reportSources, observation dates and corrections
This report combines saved page captures, registration and network records, scanner results and PhishDestroy reporting history. Each source keeps its own observation date. Open a source report to inspect the original result.
The AI-assisted analysis was written on . It describes the evidence available at that time; later source checks can change.
A capture documents what was shown. A scanner result records that provider’s assessment at the time of its check. Neither a valid certificate nor a zero-detection result is a guarantee of safety.
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