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Not Scanned Is Not Clean: The DANFE Link With No TLD

ID: 47b141ac-47f7-5713-ba1a-abcc01df4ea6

STIX ID: report--47b141ac-47f7-5713-ba1a-abcc01df4ea6

Feed Name: IRONSCALES

Threat Score
50/100

Date Published: 2026-11-02

Date Updated: 2026-11-02

Author: [email protected] (Audian Paxson)

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A Portuguese-language phishing campaign sent DANFE invoice notices to a Brazilian institute; the call-to-action used a single-label (no-TLD) hostname (https://marxcal292e/nf/index.php) that cannot resolve, causing URL reputation engines to return 'notscanned' and allow delivery, yet content analysis (Themis/IRONSCALES) and URL structural analysis flagged credential-harvesting risk and a human resolved it as malicious; a second follow-up message to the same mailbox arrived ~85 minutes later. The report recommends treating 'no verdict' as its own policy outcome, scoring URL structure independently of historical reputation, keeping content/language analysis in triage, and correlating repeat sends before closing reports.

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