Brand impersonation — not the real site
Domain was registered only 3 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.
Is pawchive.org legit or a scam?
A 3-day-old piracy archive cloning kemono.cr that has already triggered multiple user reports of malware and credential theft.
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
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 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 page displays a professional and cohesive design for a content archiving platform with no visible indicators of scam patterns or deceptive UI elements.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsProfessional and consistent design layout with custom branding
Clear navigation menu including Features, Highlights, Reviews, and Guides
Functional language selector in the header
No aggressive urgency tactics or fake trust badges visible
Content describes a specific service (content archiving) without deceptive prompts
Intelligence
The domain was registered only 3 days ago, which is a significant red flag for a site handling user data and file downloads. Our threat-intelligence layer identified it as a functional clone of kemono.cr, a pattern often used by malicious actors to capture traffic from shut-down or unstable piracy sites. While the visual design appears professional, our research uncovered specific complaints regarding account hijacking and malware infections. The lack of any verifiable business registration or contact information further decreases the trust score. The combination of extreme domain recency and active scam reports makes this a high-risk destination.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for pawchive.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain pawchive.org is 3 days old (as of July 2026); related domains pawchive.st and pawchive.pw also recently active.
- Site self-describes as 'Pawchive - Public Archive Website' focused on Patreon and Pixiv Fanbox creator content search, browsing, tags, and favorites.
- Multiple Reddit posts in r/kemono_piracy discuss it as a potential Kemono replacement; some users report account login issues or malware concerns when linking accounts.
- Gridinsoft scan of pawchive.st gives 55/100 trust score citing recent domain and one malware/phishing blacklist hit.
- No Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, or ScamDoc entries found; no official business registration located.
- Site has associated Telegram (t.me/pawchivest) and links to ThePornDude; mentions of domain holds or changes due to complaints in Reddit threads.
- Positive user reports on Reddit note successful file downloads with no immediate issues, though content import is incomplete.
- Reddit (r/kemono_piracy)open
"NO, Pawchive are criminals. they stole my Patreon account and infected my computer"
- Reddit (r/kemono_piracy)open
"tengan cuidado esa web esta infectando con malware y esta hackeando cuentas vinculadas"
- Gridinsoftopen
"The site does not currently look like a confirmed scam, but the evidence is not strong enough to treat it as fully established either. The current trust score is 55/100. Key signals include recent domain registration, security-provider warn"
Described across multiple Reddit threads as a Kemono alternative/successor for archiving Patreon and Pixiv Fanbox content; users reference importing from or replacing Kemono.
Domain Timeline
- Jul 2, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 3 days old today.
- Jul 6, 2026Latest security review — Flagged as dangerous
This scan re-ran every check; the current findings are detailed above.
pawchive.org was registered very recently and is already flagged. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, and a young domain with active threat signals warrants extra caution.
Threat Detection
Scam Network
Antivirus Engines
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.
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.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedContact 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
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with pawchive.org
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.
Final Verdict
This is a brand-new content archiving site that clones the functionality of known piracy platforms. Multiple users have reported malware infections and account theft after using the service. You should avoid linking any personal accounts or downloading files from this domain.
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 pawchive.org as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — pawchive.org scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. pawchive.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 86 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- pawchive.org is 3 days old, registered on 7/2/2026 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 pawchive.org as clean.
- No. pawchive.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- pawchive.org 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 July 6, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around pawchive.org 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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