Scan report · 14 days agoPublic

basednewsarticle.com

188.114.97.1AS13335 · US
Gated · caught after the gate

An interaction gate (e.g. Cloudflare Turnstile) blocked full analysis, but a detection rule identified this page anyway. The pre-gate score below rates only what was visible before the gate — not the evidence this verdict rests on.

page copied a hidden mshta command to the visitor's clipboard behind an anti-bot gate (ClickFix)

Clipboard command reaches1902-cf.com

Full command shown, with a warning, under findings

Engine tags
Verdict

What happened

Step by step, from what the scanner recorded.
Load 25.9 s · 2 requests
01 · Visitor opensbasednewsarticle.com
02 · Page shown
Just a moment...
03 · Clipboard seeded · hiddenA command the visitor never seesmshtaThe text is under findings, behind a warning. It was never run.
04 · OutcomeThe visitor runs the payload themselvesPaste, Enter — no download and no login form for a filter to catch.

Dangerous — confirmed threat

Preliminary / could not fully load

We found strong evidence that this site is malicious — for example a phishing page, a scam, or hostile code. Treat anything it asked for (passwords, card details, codes) as exposed.

What to do

Do not enter any information or download anything. If you already did, change those passwords now and contact your bank if payment details were involved. Block or report the link to your team.

This verdict rests on other evidence: the site never showed us its own page, so its content was not assessed. Re-scan later or verify through a trusted channel.

Findings

Strongest first
ClickFixClickFix: a HIDDEN command was copied to the clipboardmshta

The page never showed this command to the visitor — it silently placed it on their clipboard and instructed them to paste and run something they could not read. The victim executes the attacker's payload themselves; no download or login form is needed.

Our probe obtained it by pressing the fake verification widget on a throwaway copy of the page — the page did not hand it over on load.

Live attacker command — do not run this

This is the exact text the page silently placed on a visitor's clipboard. Pasting it into the Windows Run dialog (Win+R), PowerShell, or any terminal will execute the attacker's payload on your machine. Urlyze captured it inside an isolated browser and never executed it.

The page silently placed a shell command on the visitor's clipboard and told them to paste it into the Run dialog — the ClickFix technique. The command is NOT shown anywhere on the page, so the victim runs something they were never allowed to read.

What the victim is shown after clicking Verify (captured on a throwaway copy).

Analyst noteTreat the copied command as the payload — read it for the download URL, the dead-drop (Telegram/blockchain) and the execution method. It never runs in our sandbox; nothing was executed.

InfoBlocked by a bot-protection gate
cloudflare

A bot-protection challenge (e.g. Cloudflare Turnstile) blocked full analysis, so the verdict relies on pre-gate evidence (see the Gated Risk Assessment).

Analyst noteThe gate alone is NOT suspicious — many legitimate sites use it. Read the Gated Risk Assessment for the actual pre-gate risk.

File

The file was not analysed, so the scan carries no verdict on the file itself.

Gated Risk Assessment

This page sits behind a bot-protection gate, but it was already identified by a detection rule — see the verdict reason for what fired. The score below reflects ONLY the weak pre-gate signals (score 6) and does not override that finding.

Pre-gate risk score:6pre-gate signals only

Pre-gate signals

Newly registered domain (WHOIS)Supporting
+6

created 27d ago

The final domain was registered very recently. The vast majority of phishing sites run on brand-new domains.

A days-old domain impersonating an established brand is a strong tell — real brands own old domains.

Path to gate (1 hops)

finalbasednewsarticle.com
https://basednewsarticle.com/

Infrastructure

IP
188.114.97.1CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US · AS13335US
TLS
CN=WE1, O=Google Trust Services, C=US · expires Nov 26, 2026
Redirects
0 hops · / → /

WHOIS

Registrar
Dynadot Inc
Created
Aug 22, 2026
Expires
Aug 22, 2027
Nameservers
jaime.ns.cloudflare.comlorna.ns.cloudflare.com

Hashes & fingerprints

Page capture

Live

Title “Just a moment...”

Engines

6 · time to verdict

Page

HTTP
200 · AntiBotChallenged
Title
Just a moment...
Load
25.93 s · 2 requests
Stack · 2CloudflareHTTP/3