XVigil’s Fake Domain Finder: A Deep-dive on the Acquisition Component and Crawlers

This document outlines CloudSEK’s XVigil Fake Domain Finder, a SaaS capability for detecting brand impersonation and fake domains via an acquisition component and crawler orchestration. It details how crawlers are scheduled and managed, the distinction between generic and keyword crawlers, and supporting infrastructure including Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Redis Streams, Nginx Ingress, GitLab CI, Flask, RabbitMQ, and Grafana. The system leverages internal repositories and a permutation engine to surface typosquatting and related domain abuse, delivering alerts and actionable intelligence to protect brand reputation.