Is narrowoneapk.com legit or a scam?
A 27-day-old site impersonating the official Narrow One game developer to distribute unverified APK files outside of official app stores.
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
Brand impersonation — not the real site
Domain was registered only 27 days ago — brand-new sites are higher-risk by default. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual Screenshot 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 red flags detected in the screenshot
The site promotes a direct APK download for a known game, which is a common vector for distributing modified or malicious mobile software outside of official app stores.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsDirect 'Download APK' button for a game typically distributed via official app stores
Generic landing page design using a template for a single mobile application
Lack of official platform badges such as Google Play or Apple App Store
Minimalist header with only 'Home' and 'Blog' links, common in low-effort distribution sites
Use of game assets from 'Narrow One' by Pelican Party Studios on a non-official looking domain
MT Intelligence
The domain was registered only 27 days ago and uses the 'Official' label without any authorization from Pelican Party Studios, the legitimate creators of Narrow One. Our analysis confirms the site is a clone that mimics the game's branding to lure users into downloading a 756 KB file. Real versions of this game are typically much larger and are hosted on established platforms like Google Play or the developer's own domain. The lack of contact information, privacy policy, or official social links is a major red flag for a distribution site. Furthermore, the site instructs users to bypass security settings to install the file, a common tactic for spreading modified or malicious software.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for narrowoneapk.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain narrowoneapk.com is approximately 27 days old (registered around early June 2026).
- The page title and content explicitly claim "Narrow One - Download Latest APK V1.0.0.0 For Android (Official)" and list developer as "Pelican Party Studios", version 1.0.0.0, size 756.7 KB, updated June 13, 2026.
- The legitimate Narrow One game by Pelican Party Studios is available on Google Play (package co.pelicanparty.narrowone), Uptodown, itch.io (links to narrow.one for browser play), and has an official site at narrow.one.
- No mentions of narrowoneapk.com appear on official developer channels, Pelican Party Studios website (pelicanparty.co), or major APK repositories.
- No user reviews, complaints, scam reports, or malware detections were found for narrowoneapk.com across web searches, ScamAdviser listings (only sitemap mentions), or security forums.
- The site provides standard APK installation instructions (enable unknown sources) and game description matching the official capture-the-flag archery multiplayer game but offers no verifiable official links, privacy policy, or support email
- APKPure and Uptodown host official or verified versions of the game with VirusTotal scans showing no malware; no such verification exists for files from narrowoneapk.com.
The site claims to be the 'Official' source for Narrow One APK v1.0.0.0 by Pelican Party Studios but is not linked from the official narrow.one, itch.io, Google Play, or Uptodown pages. It is a standalone download site created ~27 days ago that copies the game's description.
Scam Network Intelligence
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://narrowoneapk.com/
- 2200https://narrowoneapk.com/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
1 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 a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
1 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 a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with narrowoneapk.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
- Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
- OpenReport the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
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 flags narrowoneapk.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — narrowoneapk.com scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. narrowoneapk.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 64 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- narrowoneapk.com is 27 days old, registered on 6/2/2026 through Spaceship, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report narrowoneapk.com as clean.
- No. narrowoneapk.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- narrowoneapk.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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 29, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around narrowoneapk.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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