Is kochava.com legit or a scam?
Established ad-tech measurement platform with 13+ years of operation, clean scan results, and positive industry reviews; push-notification flag is a false positive tied to analytics tracking.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
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MT Intelligence
Kochava Inc. is a registered, active U.S. business founded in 2011 with 51–200 employees and a legitimate product portfolio in omnichannel measurement and fraud prevention. Our antivirus network shows zero malicious detections across 92 engines, and the hosting IP has zero abuse reports. The domain ranks in the global top-100k, carries valid SSL, and loads a professional B2B marketing site with navigation, case studies, and client testimonials. The push-notification spam family match appears to be a false positive: it stems from historical blocks of the control.kochava.com subdomain (used for analytics tracking in mobile apps) rather than the main domain operating spam campaigns. Independent reviews on Software Advice, G2, and Capterra praise the platform's fraud-detection tools and support. The company did face an FTC settlement in 2026 regarding geolocation data practices, which is a legitimate compliance matter but does not indicate the site is a scam or malware vector. No evidence links kochava.com to phishing, credential harvesting, or consumer fraud.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for kochava.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Kochava Inc. is a legitimate ad-tech company founded in 2011, headquartered in Sandpoint, Idaho, providing omnichannel measurement, attribution, and AI-powered fraud prevention tools for advertisers and publishers.
- The company actively markets itself as a solution to detect and block mobile ad fraud, claiming clients save 15-20% of ad spend.
- FTC sued Kochava in 2022 for selling precise geolocation data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices that could track users to sensitive locations (e.g., clinics, places of worship); case settled in May 2026 with injunction prohibiting
- Subdomain control.kochava.com has triggered blocks by Malwarebytes, Safari redirects/pop-ups (2015-2017 reports), and frequent Pi-hole/AdGuard blocks due to tracking/analytics activity in apps.
- Professional reviews on Software Advice (4.6/5), G2, and Capterra are generally positive regarding fraud detection, dashboard, and support; testimonials from clients praise measurement and fraud prevention.
- No direct evidence linking kochava.com to operating push-notification spam campaigns; detected "Push-Notification Spam" family likely relates to its analytics/tracking of push campaigns or historical subdomain blocks rather than the domain
- Appears as a standard B2B marketing analytics provider with SOC 2 Type II certification, privacy policies, and industry partnerships.
- Malwarebytes Forumsopen
"I am running MBAM premium and recently i have been getting warnings informing me that it is blocking something called control.kochava.com"
- Apple Discussionsopen
"I keep getting a pop up from the safari browser and it redirects to control kochava.com I can't use my safari"
- Reddit r/piholeopen
"PiHole is blocking requests to control.kochava.com , requests that are made every 15 seconds."
- Software Adviceopen
"I like Kochava's "Fraud Detection" tools makes the price of the tool worth every penny."
- Kochava.com Testimonialsopen
"Kochava is a game changer for measuring and optimizing our mobile apps... Plus, the built-in fraud prevention ensures our ad dollars aren’t wasted on mobile ad fraud"
- G2open
"If you're looking for a reliable, high-performing measurement partner with a team that feels like an extension of your own, Kochava is the clear choice. 10/10"
Kochava Inc., headquartered in Sandpoint, Idaho; founded 2011; 51-200 employees; privately held; FTC settlement in 2026 regarding data practices
Web research found three historical complaints about the control.kochava.com subdomain (reported on Malwarebytes Forums, Apple Discussions, and Reddit r/pihole) related to tracking and analytics blocks in mobile apps, not fraud or phishing on the main kochava.com domain. Three positive professional reviews on Software Advice, G2, and Kochava's own testimonials page praise the platform's fraud-detection tools, analytics dashboard, and customer support. Business registration confirmed: Kochava Inc. is an active U.S. company founded in 2011, headquartered in Sandpoint, Idaho, with 51–200 employees. An FTC settlement in 2026 addressed geolocation data practices; the case is resolved and does not indicate ongoing fraud or scam operation.
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.
- Page requests browser push-notification permission — common malvertising vector.
- Scam family match: Push-Notification Spam.
- Links to 5 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://kochava.com/
- 2301http://www.kochava.com/cross-domain
- 3200https://www.kochava.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
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 kochava.com and not a lookalike like k-ochava.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
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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 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 kochava.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- kochava.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 77/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. kochava.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, expiring in 111 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report kochava.com as clean.
- No. kochava.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- kochava.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Technologies Inc. in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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.
- Yes. kochava.com sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 14, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around kochava.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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