taxassessment.cyou
Category: Phishing
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Description of taxassessment.cyou
The domain taxassessment.cyou appears to present itself as a tax-related notice portal, using the page title "Tax Assessment and Penalty Notice - Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS)." Based on the screenshot and metadata, the site is designed to resemble an official government communication concerning tax assessment, compliance, and penalties.
However, the domain itself does not appear to be an official Singapore government domain. The page references legitimate IRAS-related domains and uses government-style branding and language, which may indicate an attempt to imitate a public-sector tax authority. Based on the available content, the site appears to be focused on luring visitors into trusting a document or download associated with a supposed tax notice.
Safety Assessment for taxassessment.cyou
This website shows multiple risk indicators at the time of this scan. It was flagged by 16 out of 91 security engines, with several detections describing the site as phishing or malicious. The page content also closely imitates the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, while operating from an unrelated .cyou domain rather than an official government web address. That combination may indicate a look-alike page intended to mislead visitors.
Additional scan context increases concern. The domain is very new at 27 days old, has no established traffic ranking, and includes suspicious linked resources such as image files and a downloadable VHDX file that were heuristically flagged during malware analysis. While major threat databases shown here were mostly clean at the time of this scan, one blacklist provider did list the domain, and clean results in some databases do not outweigh the broader multi-engine phishing consensus.
Based on these findings, this website may pose potential risks to visitors.
Technical Description
The site uses a valid Let's Encrypt SSL certificate expiring in September 2026 and is served over HTTPS from an nginx web server. It resolves to IP address 38.76.161.218 and appears to be hosted by HONGKONG CLOUD NETWORK TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong. DNSSEC is not enabled, and the domain uses shared DNS infrastructure.
From a technical-risk perspective, the most notable concerns are the domain's very recent registration, unsigned DNSSEC status, and the presence of suspicious linked resources including a .vhdx file. A valid certificate only confirms encrypted transport to the server at the time of connection; it does not by itself verify that the site is trustworthy or officially affiliated with the organization it claims to represent.
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