Critical risk detected
8 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. Our security stack flagged multiple threat indicators on this website. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Is downloadpirate.com legit or a scam?
Piracy distribution site flagged as malware by six antivirus engines; offers cracked Adobe, games, and VST plugins with no business transparency.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The domain operates as a software piracy hub, explicitly advertising cracked versions of commercial software (Adobe Creative Suite, games, VST plugins, WordPress themes). Six independent antivirus engines—ADMINUSLabs, Chong Lua Dao, CyRadar, ESET, Fortinet, and Kaspersky—classify it as malicious or malware, indicating the files hosted here are either genuinely malicious or frequently bundled with malware payloads. The site has zero contact information (no email, phone, or address), no business registration, and no legitimate operator identity—a hallmark of throwaway piracy operations. The domain is not indexed in global traffic rankings, suggesting it operates in the shadows. Piracy sites are common vectors for malware distribution because attackers bundle trojans, ransomware, or info-stealers into cracked software to infect users' machines.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for downloadpirate.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
No independent scam reports or trust reviews found in available sources.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://downloadpirate.com/
- 2301https://downloadpirate.com/
- 3200https://www.downloadpirate.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- AI analyst tagged this as malware / drive-by / cracked app.
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- AI analyst tagged this as malware / drive-by / cracked app.
Malware distribution detected
Signals suggest this page may deliver malicious files or exploit the browser.
- Do not interact with downloadpirate.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- If you downloaded or ran a file from here
Disconnect the device from the internet, run a full scan with a reputable antivirus (Malwarebytes, ESET, Bitdefender), and consider a second-opinion scanner. Change passwords on any account you used from the device afterwards — ideally from a different device.
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review flags downloadpirate.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — downloadpirate.com scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. downloadpirate.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 89 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 9 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged downloadpirate.com as malicious or suspicious (8 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. downloadpirate.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- downloadpirate.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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