No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is hashicorp.com legit or a scam?
This looks safe to use.
Official 15-year-old site for HashiCorp infrastructure tools with clean scans and confirmed IBM subsidiary status.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual similarities noted — cleared by the overall checks
Our vision model noted some visual similarity to a known brand, but the domain, security records, and reputation checks confirm this is the legitimate site — so this is shown for transparency, not as a red flag.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
Intelligence
The domain hashicorp.com shows every marker of a legitimate business. It was registered in 2011, carries a valid SSL certificate, and resolves to a clean hosting IP with zero abuse score. Our sandbox and browser blocklist feeds returned no flags. Evidence confirms HashiCorp, Inc. is an active US company recently acquired by IBM. One Reddit post warns about a different domain (hashicorp.io) distributing malware, not this site. The combination of long domain history, verified business registration, and absence of direct complaints against hashicorp.com itself supports a safe classification.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for hashicorp.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- HashiCorp, Inc. is a legitimate, publicly recognized software company specializing in infrastructure automation tools like Terraform, Vault, and Consul.
- The company was acquired by IBM in February 2025.
- The domain hashicorp.com is the official, authentic website for the company.
- Third-party security and trust platforms (e.g., ScamAdviser, Scam Detector) consistently rate hashicorp.com as a safe and legitimate site.
- Users should be aware of potential typosquatting or impersonation attempts on other domains (e.g., hashicorp.io) that may attempt to distribute malicious software.
- HashiCorp maintains an official abuse reporting process for security concerns and policy violations.
- Redditopen
"This website hashicorp.io appears to be a scam site. I'm not sure what you've downloaded here but since it seems to be pretending to be Terraform I'd strongly suggest that you consider your computer to be compromised"
- G2open
"It was easy to integrate and straightforward to understand. I feel the API performance is solid, and the documentation is clear and helpful for new developers. The UI is intuitive and easy to navigate."
HashiCorp, Inc. is a subsidiary of IBM, headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Our research found one Reddit post warning users about hashicorp.io, a separate domain that may distribute malware while pretending to be Terraform. A G2 review describes HashiCorp's API performance and documentation positively. Business records confirm HashiCorp, Inc. is an active US company and IBM subsidiary. No scam reports or complaints were found targeting hashicorp.com.
Domain Timeline
- Apr 30, 2011Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 15 years old today.
- Jul 17, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
hashicorp.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Threat Detection
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedThe plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1308http://hashicorp.com/
- 2429https://hashicorp.com/
Server Reputation
What to do
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on hashicorp.com and not a lookalike like h-ashicorp.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
HashiCorp.com is the official website for HashiCorp, Inc., a legitimate infrastructure software company now owned by IBM. The domain is 15 years old with clean security scans and an active US business registration. Users should avoid similar-looking domains like hashicorp.io that have been flagged as potential malware distributors.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on hashicorp.com, so it appears legitimate. it ranks among the world's most-visited sites, and the domain is 15.2 years old, registered on April 30, 2011 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
- hashicorp.com passed our automated checks with a trust score of 90/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
- Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from hashicorp.com), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from hashicorp.com is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
- No — hashicorp.com is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- hashicorp.com is 15.2 years old, registered on April 30, 2011 through CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
- Yes — hashicorp.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, valid for another 31 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
- hashicorp.com resolves to an IP operated by Vercel, Inc in US (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
- Yes — hashicorp.com ranks in the global top 100,000 most-visited sites, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. Genuine popularity doesn't automatically make a site safe, but throwaway scam domains almost never reach this level of traffic, so it's a meaningful point in the site's favour.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 17, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about hashicorp.com has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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