v2-aav[.]top

Analysis of v2-aav.top indicates that the domain was registered on 5 December 2025 through NiceNIC International Group Co., Limited and is currently taken offline. The domain resolves to the Cloudflare edge address 104.21.92.134, which belongs to AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc.) and is hosted in the United States. DNS resolution uses the Cloudflare authoritative nameservers harlan.ns.cloudflare.com and lisa.ns.cloudflare.com, and HTTP traffic is served over HTTP/3 with a default nginx page title "Welcome to nginx!". The TLS certificate presented is issued by Google Trust Services under the WE1 intermediate, suggesting the site was reachable via HTTPS before being withdrawn.

Threat intelligence sources label the site as an impersonation of the brand x.com. The domain appears on one public security blocklist and is listed in a single AlienVault OTX pulse. Five of ninety‑five VirusTotal scanners flagged the domain, and the anti‑phishing service PhishDestroy has also blocked it. No additional payload or page content has been disclosed, and the exact phishing vector remains unknown.

Given the observed infrastructure—Cloudflare hosting, a generic nginx landing page, and a Google‑issued certificate—adversaries likely leveraged a fast‑deployment kit to host a brief impersonation page before taking the site offline. Defenders should update URL filtering rules to include v2-aav.top, monitor for re‑registration or similar sub‑domains, and enforce strict brand‑based safe‑browsing checks for traffic targeting x.com. Continuous surveillance of the associated IP range and Cloudflare‑hosted domains is recommended to detect any resurgence of the campaign.