No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is malwares.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate 21-year-old cyber threat intelligence platform with clean reputation and no scam reports.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as CTX, a threat intelligence service that provides malware analysis and API access. Its domain is over 21 years old, which strongly supports legitimacy for a real business. Only one antivirus engine flagged it while major blocklists stayed clean and the hosting IP shows zero abuse reports. Our research found the service has been integrated into security tools since 2013 and carries positive trust signals with no scam complaints. The single detection appears to be an isolated false positive rather than evidence of malice.
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 malwares.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain malwares.com hosts CTX Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform for malware analysis and threat intel
- Integrated as URL checker in VirusTotal since November 2013 by Saint Security (South Korea)
- Provides API for file, IP, domain, and URL analysis; used in tools like Cortex, FireEye, Logpresso
- Described as Korea's first big-data malware auto-analysis intelligence service
- Domain age exceeds 21 years (7919 days); redirects/associated with ctx.io
- Some user reports of false positive detections in VT scans, but no complaints about the service itself being fraudulent
- Positive trust signals noted in independent reputation checks; no scam or phishing associations found
- Gridinsoftopen
"We reviewed malwares.com and found mostly positive trust signals, but some caution points remain. Key signals include no major malware or phishing blacklist ..."
Our research located no scam reports or consumer complaints about malwares.com. One independent review highlighted mostly positive trust signals with minor caution notes. The domain is operated by Saint Security, a South Korean company founded in 2004, and has been integrated into security platforms since 2013.
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://malwares.com/
- 2200https://www.ctx.io/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 malwares.com and not a lookalike like m-alwares.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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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 found no threat indicators on malwares.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- malwares.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 70/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. malwares.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by ZeroSSL GmbH · ZeroSSL ECC DV SSL CA 2, expiring in 33 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- malwares.com is 21.7 years old, registered on 9/26/2004 through Whois Corp.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged malwares.com as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. malwares.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- malwares.com resolves to an IP operated by kidc in KR (usage type: Commercial). 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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