Brand impersonation — not the real site
The page visually clones kemono.su. 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.pw legit or a scam?
Kemono clone offering Patreon and Pixiv archives with recent user reports of malware and account theft on Reddit.
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.
The page visually mimics kemono.su
The site is a functional clone of the Kemono content archiver, used for viewing third-party subscription content. While it lacks traditional phishing or financial scam indicators, it operates in a high-risk niche associated with copyright infringement and unofficial mirrors.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsSite identifies as an archiver for Patreon and Pixiv Fanbox content
Layout is a direct clone of the Kemono.party / Kemono.su interface
Sidebar contains links to external community platforms like Telegram
Presence of a link to a known adult site directory in the footer
Functional navigation menu for searching creators, posts, and importing content
Intelligence
The site presents itself as a public archiver for paid subscription content from Patreon and Pixiv Fanbox. It directly clones the Kemono.su interface and links to Telegram and adult site directories. Three Reddit posts describe account theft, malware infection, and hacking after users connected Patreon accounts. Two other posts state the site worked without problems for file downloads. The domain registered in June 2026 shows no business registration or company details. The combination of a piracy-focused clone, recent domain, and conflicting user reports on account security raises moderate concern.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for pawchive.pw, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain pawchive.pw registered June 23, 2026; expires June 23, 2027 (WHOIS via OTX and ipaddress.com).
- Site is a public content archiver for Patreon/Pixiv Fanbox, explicitly positioned as Kemono alternative; hosted on Cloudflare with frequent domain changes (e.g., from .st to .pw).
- Reddit discussions in r/kemono_piracy reference it as successor/mirror to Kemono; users report domain switches when .st goes down.
- Isolated user reports on Reddit claim account theft, malware infection, or hacking after linking Patreon accounts; other users report safe downloads and no issues.
- VirusTotal shows clean detections from multiple engines (Kaspersky, Lionic, MalwarePatrol, etc.); no confirmed malware flags on domain scan.
- No Trustpilot, ScamDoc, or major review site presence; ScamAdviser score of 40/100 noted in query (no independent confirmation found).
- Associated with Reddit user purpleuniverses (site creator/maintainer per multiple threads); community Telegram linked from site.
- 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"
- Reddit (r/ScamChecker)open
"is pawchive.st legit or scam ? ; Score: 75/100 ; Risk Level: High Risk ; Domain Age: 3 days"
Reddit threads in r/kemono_piracy and r/ScamChecker contain three complaints describing account theft, malware infection, and hacking after users linked Patreon accounts to Pawchive. Two separate posts state the site worked without issues for downloading files. No business registration or company information appears in searches. The domain shows frequent switches between TLDs when previous domains go offline.
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.
- Visual clone of kemono.su detected in the screenshot.
- 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.
- Visual clone of kemono.su detected in the screenshot.
- 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.
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Trust History
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.pw
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
Pawchive.pw is a Kemono mirror site for Patreon and Pixiv Fanbox content. Multiple Reddit users report account theft and malware after linking accounts, while others report no issues.
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.pw as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — pawchive.pw scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. pawchive.pw presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 75 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 pawchive.pw as clean.
- No. pawchive.pw is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- pawchive.pw 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.
- Independent trust-rating sites currently show the following for pawchive.pw: ScamAdviser: 40/100. Those scores come from user reviews and their own heuristics, so they are worth comparing against our verdict.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on July 7, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around pawchive.pw 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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