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Domain-First

Domain reputation built for phishing operations

vspam treats domains as the main long-term phishing artifact. Raw URL submissions are normalized into canonical domains, then scored with DNS, registrar, hosting, ASN, brand, and historical evidence that operators can actually explain and act on.

That keeps feeds compact enough for real use, while still preserving just enough short-lived redirect and path evidence to distinguish real phishing pages from noisy but benign domains.

The normalization step
hxxps://mx4[.]auth-reset[.]cc/portal?id=8f
Collapse to canonical domain
auth-reset[.]cc

Path and redirect evidence is retained as short-lived enrichment — it never becomes a permanent feed artifact.

What goes into domain scoring

01 / Ingest

Canonical domain ingest from raw submissions, including URL collapse for long-term phishing scoring.

02 / Signals

Domain age, registrar, DNS record patterns, hosting ASN overlap, and targeted-brand context.

03 / Short-lived

Short-lived URL-derived evidence such as redirect behavior and path keywords without turning raw URLs into permanent feed artifacts.

04 / Memory

Historical observations and delist outcomes so one bad report does not permanently define a domain.

Operator use cases

Direct blocking

Use high-confidence phishing domain feeds for SMTP-time blocking, quarantine, or browser and proxy policy.

direct_blockscore ≥ 80
Triage and review

Use domain scoring and confidence together to separate strong phishing infrastructure from newly observed but weakly corroborated domains.

score + confidence
Investigation pivoting

Pivot from a domain into linked IPv6 and IPv4 infrastructure, related ASNs, redirect targets, and targeted-brand context.

pivot

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