I recall that subdomains are their own record inside a DNS, which would imply that anyone can claim that their server is a non-existent subdomain of the real domain

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    8 hours ago

    They’d need a certificate authority to issue the certificate, and the victim’s browser would have to trust that authority.

    Edit: and the scammer would need to control the domain DNS server to use the subdomain, like another reply said, so the certificate alone wouldn’t help much.