Is mariokart8.online safe?

http://mariokart8.online/

Moderate RiskStatus

Coveragecomplete4 of 4 applicable core capabilities

Verdict

Newly registered browser game site with mixed security flags and no operator contact.

mariokart8.online is a browser-based racing game that claims to donate ad revenue to charity. The domain is only five days old, two antivirus engines flagged it as suspicious, and the page provides no direct contact email.

Treat the site as moderate risk until the operator publishes verifiable contact details and the charity-donation claim can be confirmed.
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Calibrated safety spectrum

Where this site sits

  1. Dangerous1–20
  2. High Risk21–44
  3. Moderate Risk45–69
  4. Low Risk70–84
  5. Safe85–100

The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.

01 · Investigation Brief

Investigation Brief

mariokart8.online is a browser-based racing game that claims to donate ad revenue to charity. The domain is only five days old, two antivirus engines flagged it as suspicious, and the page provides no direct contact email.

Security signals and domain age

The browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the TLS connection is valid.

Two antivirus engines (alphaMountain.ai and Gridinsoft) marked the URL as suspicious or spam.

The registrable domain is five days old.

Operator identity and contact details

No direct contact email appears on the captured page.

The site states that camera images stay in the browser or are sent only to other players in the same room.

Why the score is 62

Two antivirus engines flagged the URL as suspicious or spam. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.

02 · Security Evidence

Security evidence

Collected signals and independent provider data for this URL.

Antivirus Engines

2/ 93

detections

Fresh result

2 engines flagged this URL

Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.

Malicious
0
Suspicious
2
Total
93
Adverse antivirus results
EngineFinding
alphaMountain.aiSuspiciousspam
GridinsoftSuspicioussuspicious
All 93 engine results
  • alphaMountain.ai - spam - Suspicious
  • Gridinsoft - Suspicious
  • 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
  • Abusix - Clean
  • Acronis - Clean
  • ADMINUSLabs - Clean
  • AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
  • AlienVault - Clean
  • AlphaSOC - Unrated
  • Antiy-AVL - Clean
  • ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
  • AutoShun - Unrated
  • Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
  • BitDefender - Clean
  • Bkav - Unrated
  • BlockList - Clean
  • Blueliv - Clean
  • Certego - Clean
  • ChainPatrol - Unrated
  • Chong Lua Dao - Clean
  • CINS Army - Clean
  • CRDF - Clean
  • Criminal IP - Unrated
  • CSIS Security Group - Unrated
  • CTX AI - Clean
  • Cyan - Unrated
  • Cyble - Clean
  • CyRadar - Clean
  • desenmascara.me - Clean
  • DNS8 - Unrated
  • Dr.Web - Clean
  • EmergingThreats - Clean
  • Emsisoft - Clean
  • Ermes - Unrated
  • ESET - Clean
  • ESTsecurity - Clean
  • Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
  • Fortinet - Clean
  • Fortra - Unrated
  • G-Data - Clean
  • GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
  • Google Safe Browsing - Clean
  • GreenSnow - Clean
  • GreyNoise - Unrated
  • Guardpot - Unrated
  • Heimdal Security - Clean
  • Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
  • IPsum - Clean
  • Juniper Networks - Clean
  • K7AntiVirus - Unrated
  • Kaspersky - Clean
  • LevelBlue - Clean
  • Lionic - Clean
  • Lumu - Unrated
  • Malwared - Clean
  • MalwarePatrol - Clean
  • MalwareURL - Unrated
  • Mimecast - Unrated
  • Netcraft - Unrated
  • OpenPhish - Clean
  • Orcapot - Unrated
  • PhishFort - Unrated
  • Phishing Database - Clean
  • Phishtank - Clean
  • PREBYTES - Clean
  • PrecisionSec - Unrated
  • Quick Heal - Clean
  • Quttera - Clean
  • Rising - Clean
  • SafeToOpen - Unrated
  • Sangfor - Clean
  • Sansec eComscan - Unrated
  • Scantitan - Clean
  • SCUMWARE.org - Clean
  • Seclookup - Clean
  • Snort IP sample list - Unrated
  • SOCRadar - Unrated
  • Sophos - Clean
  • StopForumSpam - Clean
  • Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
  • Synthient - Unrated
  • ThreatHive - Clean
  • URLhaus - Clean
  • URLQuery - Unrated
  • Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
  • VIPRE - Unrated
  • ViriBack - Clean
  • VX Vault - Clean
  • Webroot - Clean
  • Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Unrated
  • Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
  • ZeroCERT - Clean
  • ZeroFox - Unrated

Security Scans

Browser Threat Feed
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.

What we observed

CAPTURED PAGE
mariokart8.online
What our review noticed on this page
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

Update Time! Sorry for the abrupt stop... again.. I added a way to kick pesky trolls out of your lobby and also made ads les invasive (sorry they were causing issues on some devices, i hate popups too)

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    Update Time! Sorry for the abrupt stop... again.. I added a way to kick pesky trolls out of your lobby and also made ads les invasive (sorry they were causing issues on some devices, i hate popups too)

03 · Investigation Story

Investigation story

The behavior, reputation, and operator evidence that explains how this site may affect a visitor.
  1. What the site claims

    MK8 Web

  2. What we observed

    The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.

  3. What independent research found

    The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.

  4. What remains unverified

    The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.

What kind of site and risk is this?

Threat category

No threat category confirmed

Service and business model

Content

Advertising

Observed behavior

No disruptive browser behavior saved

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 01The registrable domain is 5 days old.
  2. 02Two antivirus engines flagged the URL as suspicious or spam.
  3. 03No direct contact email found on the captured page.

Web research findings

Independent findings for mariokart8.online, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.

Business registration
Not checked
This report did not include a company-registry lookup, so no registration result is claimed.
Clone check
Not checked
No site-clone comparison was run for this report, so no clean result is claimed.
Typosquat check
Not checked
No look-alike domain comparison was run for this report, so no clean result is claimed.
Web mentions
No scam reports found
The completed search returned no sourced scam reports or complaints.

No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for mariokart8.online. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
ListedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

04 · Domain & Infrastructure

Domain & infrastructure

Timeline · identity · encryption · redirects · hosting

The 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.

Infrastructure map

How the saved page connected to the wider web.

  1. Domainmariokart8.online
  2. Redirects tomariokart8.online
  3. Hosted byOMEGATECH
  4. Referencesgoogletagmanager.com

Domain Timeline

  1. Oct 7, 2026
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 5 days old when this review was saved.

  2. Oct 12, 2026
    Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk

    The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.

mariokart8.online was registered very recently when this review was saved. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, so a young domain whose evidence is mixed or incomplete warrants extra caution.

Contact Verification

Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
One contact red flag
  • No direct contact email found on the captured page.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age5 days old
RegistrarNameSilo, LLC
RegisteredOct 7, 2026
ExpiresOct 7, 2027
Owner privacyUnknown
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YE1
ExpiresJan 5, 2027 (85d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingOMEGATECH
Server locationNL
Web servernginx/1.24.0 (Ubuntu)

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://mariokart8.online/
  • 2200https://mariokart8.online/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file1
ISPOMEGATECH
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

Coverage, provenance, and source freshness remain separate so a missing check is never mistaken for a clean result.
  1. Antiviruscomplete
  2. Browser threat feedcomplete
  3. Page contentcomplete
  4. Analysiscomplete
  5. Visual evidencecomplete
Completed analysis

The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.

Technical threat

suspicious

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

Two antivirus engines flagged the URL as suspicious or spam.

Operator / customer risk

unknown

Complaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.

No direct contact email found on the captured page.

Source coverage and freshness

Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.

Antivirus
Result2 of 93 engines flagged
CompletionCompleted
FindingAdverse
Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 12, 2026
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 12, 2026
Page content
ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 12, 2026
Visual evidence
Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 12, 2026
Independent research
ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 12, 2026

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

Proceed with caution

The evidence is mixed or incomplete, so treat this site as unverified until you can confirm who runs it.

  1. Analyst recommendation

    Treat the site as moderate risk until the operator publishes verifiable contact details and the charity-donation claim can be confirmed.

  2. Treat mariokart8.online as unverified

    Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.

  3. Verify the business through independent channels

    Check the company's social profiles, registry records, and search for recent news or reviews that are not hosted on the site itself.

  4. Never use irreversible payment methods

    Crypto, gift cards, wire transfers, and cash apps offer zero buyer protection. Use a credit card or PayPal if you must pay.

  5. Share your experience

    If you have additional context, drop a comment below or post on the MalwareTips forum.

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07 · Safety FAQ

Safety FAQ

Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.

Is mariokart8.online a scam or is it safe?
There isn't enough evidence yet for us to give mariokart8.online a confident verdict, so treat it with caution. The domain is 5 days old — recently-registered sites carry more risk. Until it can be independently verified, don't enter passwords, card details, or send money, and confirm the company through channels you find yourself rather than links on the site.
Is mariokart8.online safe to use?
mariokart8.online has a Safety Score of 62/100 (Moderate Risk). Analysis coverage is complete at 100%. Do not trust blindly; the evidence is inconclusive.
Has mariokart8.online been flagged by antivirus engines?
Yes. 2 of 93 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged mariokart8.online as suspicious. These are "suspicious" votes rather than confirmed malicious detections, so they are weighed alongside the other checks.
Is mariokart8.online on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — mariokart8.online 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.
How old is the mariokart8.online domain?
mariokart8.online is 5 days old, registered on October 7, 2026 through NameSilo, LLC. Scam sites are very often freshly registered and short-lived, so an age under six months is a reason for extra caution.
Does mariokart8.online have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — mariokart8.online presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE1, valid for another 85 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".
Where is mariokart8.online hosted?
mariokart8.online resolves to an IP operated by OMEGATECH in NL (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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.
How often is the mariokart8.online report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on October 12, 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 mariokart8.online has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.

08 · Final Verdict

Final verdict

The saved conclusion, decisive evidence, and practical action in one final view.
Verdict score
62/100
Moderate Risk

Newly registered browser game site with mixed security flags and no operator contact.

Saved capturemariokart8.onlineCapture-safe
Captured during this scan. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

mariokart8.online is a browser-based racing game that claims to donate ad revenue to charity. The domain is only five days old, two antivirus engines flagged it as suspicious, and the page provides no direct contact email.

Recommended actionTreat the site as moderate risk until the operator publishes verifiable contact details and the charity-donation claim can be confirmed.
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09 · Community

Community

First-hand experiences add human context after the scanner has reached its conclusion.