Critical risk detected
Old modded-app download site with one AV flag, mixed independent review aggregator feedback, and complaints about rooting requests. Our security stack flagged multiple threat indicators on this website. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Is pdalife.com legit or a scam?
Old modded-app download site with one AV flag, mixed independent review aggregator feedback, and complaints about rooting requests.
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
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as an alternative app store for Android and iOS games with modded versions and money cheats. A single engine, Chong Lua Dao, flagged the page as malicious while all browser blocklists remained clean. The domain is over 26 years old, which normally signals legitimacy, yet independent review aggregator shows one negative review calling it a fake virus site that pushes rooting and five total complaints. Positive reviews exist but are outnumbered by cautionary feedback on Reddit threads discussing APK detections. These mixed signals plus the inherent risk of third-party modded apps lead us to rate the site suspicious rather than outright malicious or safe.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for pdalife.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain pdalife.com registered approximately 26.7 years ago (9769 days) via registrar Hosting Concepts B.V.
- Site functions as APK/IPA download portal for Android/iOS apps and games, positioning itself as Play Store/App Store alternative
- WHOIS data shows owner identity hidden via privacy service; registrant organization Regery Ukraine
- Related domains include pdalife.to, pdalife.ru, pdalife.com.ua frequently discussed as variants of the same service
- Scamadviser reports average-to-good trust score citing long existence, high traffic, and valid SSL; notes mixed reviews
- Reddit threads (r/moddedandroidapps, r/ApksApps) discuss VirusTotal detections on APKs (often attributed to false positives like test signatures or ads)
- Trustpilot has 3 reviews for pdalife.com with mixed feedback on safety and functionality
- Trustpilotopen
"Fake virus website it asks u to root your phone so u can play games from them..."
- Trustpilotopen
"I've been downloading games from PDALIFE for more than two years now and I've never had single virus injected to my device, I got my favorite games from PDALIFE and it had absolutely no problem."
independent review aggregator shows one review calling the site a fake virus site that pushes phone rooting and one positive review from a two-year user. Five complaints appear alongside Reddit discussions in modded-app communities noting occasional our antivirus network flags on downloads, often attributed to ad libraries or test signatures. No official business registration records were located.
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.
- Phone number listed (2007-2026).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://pdalife.com/
- 2200https://pdalife.com/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 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 malware / drive-by / cracked app.
0 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 malware / drive-by / cracked app.
Malware distribution detected
Signals suggest this page may deliver malicious files or exploit the browser.
- Do not interact with pdalife.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- If you downloaded or ran a file from here
Disconnect the device from the internet, run a full scan with a reputable antivirus (Malwarebytes, ESET, Bitdefender), and consider a second-opinion scanner. Change passwords on any account you used from the device afterwards — ideally from a different device.
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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 from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review flags pdalife.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — pdalife.com scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. pdalife.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 32 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- pdalife.com is 26.8 years old, registered on 8/30/1999 through Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged pdalife.com as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. pdalife.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- pdalife.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.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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