Is pawchive.st legit or a scam?
A piracy-focused content archiver flagged for malware activity and reported by users for stealing account credentials.
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
Critical risk detected
A piracy-focused content archiver flagged for malware activity and reported by users for stealing account credentials. Multiple independent checks — antivirus engines, browser safety blocklists, and threat databases — flagged this site. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Website Preview
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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 appears to be a niche content aggregator or archiver for adult or creator-focused platforms; while it facilitates third-party content sharing, it lacks typical visual scam indicators like fake timers or trust badges.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsSite claims to be a public archiver for Patreon and Pixiv Fanbox content
Uses anime-style placeholder art and a dark-themed UI
Contains links to a Telegram community and an import page for user-contributed content
Layout is functional with a sidebar navigation for searching creators and posts
No immediate signs of phishing, fake urgency, or credential theft on the landing page
MT Intelligence
The domain was registered very recently and has already triggered multiple security warnings. While it presents itself as a community-driven archive for creator content, our intelligence stack has identified links to malware activity and bad hosting reputation. Independent security providers, including alphaMountain.ai, have flagged the site as suspicious. Furthermore, community reports specifically allege that the site has been used to infect devices and hijack linked accounts. The lack of any verifiable business registration or contact information further increases the risk.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for pawchive.st, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- pawchive.st is a recently launched (approx. June 2026, ~7-14 days old at time of reports) independent alternative to the defunct Kemono.su piracy archiver for Patreon and Pixiv Fanbox content.
- Site has a Telegram channel at t.me/pawchivest for community updates; users have created browser userscripts for favorites import/migration from Kemono.
- Multiple security scanners flag it: SecureFeed links to malware activity and bad host IP (Project Honey Pot); Gridinsoft gives 46/100 trust score citing new domain, provider warnings, and 1 blacklist hit.
- Reddit threads in r/kemono_piracy and r/ScamChecker show mixed user opinions: some call it a useful temporary alternative with active uploads, others accuse it of malware, account theft (Patreon logins), and being unsafe.
- No official business registration, WHOIS details, or company information located; domain is very new with frequent downtime reports.
- Downloaders and tools (gallery-dl, Kemono-Downloader forks) have added support for pawchive.st; site offers importer, favorites, and content search features.
- No evidence of major brand impersonation (e.g. not a fake PayPal/Roblox site); primary activity is piracy archiving.
- SecureFeedopen
"Host has shown activity related to malware. Project Honey Pot: Detected as a bad web host IP."
- Gridinsoftopen
"Pawchive.st New Domain Warning (46/100 Trust Score)... recent domain registration, security-provider warnings, and a malware or phishing blacklist detection (1)."
- Reddit r/ScamCheckeropen
"Score: 75/100 Risk Level: High Risk Domain Age: 3 days pawchive.st is likely unsafe"
- Reddit r/kemono_piracyopen
"NO, Pawchive are criminals. they stole my Patreon account and infected my computer"
- Reddit r/kemono_piracyopen
"tengan cuidado esa web esta infectando con malware y esta hackeando cuentas vinculadas"
- Reddit r/kemono_piracyopen
"the creator of pawchive said it’s not an official successor, it was made independently... reach out to the person who created the project to discuss your security concerns and ask them to assure you that the site is safe."
- GitHub mikf/gallery-dlopen
"pawchive.st since kemono's dead* and someone had the balls to make an alternative"
- Ripper.store forumopen
"Kemono has been down for months now. A new alternative has popped up. https://pawchive.st/"
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.
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://pawchive.st/
- 2200https://pawchive.st/
Server Reputation
Avoid this site
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Do not interact with pawchive.st
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- 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.
- 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.
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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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags pawchive.st as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — pawchive.st scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. pawchive.st presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 74 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged pawchive.st as malicious or suspicious. Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. pawchive.st is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- pawchive.st 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 25, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around pawchive.st 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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