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# IOC Alert: ClickFix Payload Delivery via Compromised Shopify Template Domain
- URL: https://darkwebinformer.com/ioc-alert-clickfix-payload-delivery-via-compromised-shopify-template-domain/
- Published: 2025-11-03T18:32:22.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-03T18:32:22.000Z
- Author: Dark Web Informer
- Tags: IOC

## 📖 Overview

A domain impersonating Shopify’s verification portal, **thesmartboater.com,** has been identified as part of a **ClickFix** payload delivery campaign. The site mimics a standard “security verification” page while hosting injected scripts that redirect users or deploy secondary payloads. This infrastructure is typical of ClickFix campaigns, which exploit compromised or expired WordPress and Shopify-themed domains for malware delivery and phishing redirections. Confidence is assessed at 100%.

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## 📌 Key Details

| Field           | Information                |
| --------------- | -------------------------- |
| **Type**        | Domain                     |
| **Indicator**   | thesmartboater\[.\]com     |
| **Threat Type** | Payload Delivery           |
| **Malware**     | Unknown                    |
| **Confidence**  | 100%                       |
| **Date**        | 03 Nov 2025 – 18:16:11 UTC |
| **Tags**        | ClickFix                   |
| **Reporter**    | HuntYethHounds             |
| **Reference**   | None                       |

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## 🔎 URLScan Result

- **Verdict Score:** 0
- **Page Title:** Checking if you are human
- **Screenshot:** [View Screenshot](https://urlscan.io/screenshots/019a4aef-61f0-72ac-8714-1501c99c2e97.png)
- **Result:** [Full Scan Report](https://urlscan.io/result/019a4aef-61f0-72ac-8714-1501c99c2e97/)

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## 🌐 Domain & Certificate Info

- **DNS A Record:** 94\[.\]156\[.\]232\[.\]243
- **MX Record:** 0 thesmartboater\[.\]com
- **Recent Certificates:**  
• C=US, O=Let's Encrypt, CN=R12 *(valid: 2025-09-15 → 2025-12-14)*  
• C=US, O=Let's Encrypt, CN=E7 *(valid: 2025-08-27 → 2025-11-25)*

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## 📡 Related Intelligence

- **Certificate Transparency:** [crt.sh Report](https://crt.sh/?q=thesmartboater.com)
- **VirusTotal:** [VT Domain Report](https://www.virustotal.com/gui/domain/thesmartboater.com)
- **URLScan Domain Overview:** [urlscan.io Domain Page](https://urlscan.io/domain/thesmartboater.com)
- **DNS Analytics:** [dnslytics.com Report](https://dnslytics.com/domain/thesmartboater.com)

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## 🛡️ Defensive Guidance

- Block all access to **thesmartboater\[.\]com** at perimeter and endpoint levels.
- Inspect web proxy and DNS logs for prior user activity related to this domain.
- Monitor for redirects or network beacons tied to the **ClickFix** campaign family, often using `.php` or `.js` payload stagers hosted under e-commerce lookalike sites.
- Employ heuristic browser-based protection to detect **spoofed CAPTCHA or verification overlays** impersonating Cloudflare or Shopify.

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⚠️ This IOC demonstrates ongoing **ClickFix payload distribution tactics**, leveraging expired Shopify domains and deceptive human verification screens to compromise unsuspecting users through **malicious script injection** and **redirect-based infection chains**.