No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is penguinmod.com legit or a scam?
PenguinMod is a genuine Scratch mod for advanced block coding with a clean 959-day-old domain and active open-source community.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as a community-driven coding editor extending Scratch and TurboWarp, with clear disclaimers about its independent status. The domain is over two and a half years old, carries valid SSL, and shows zero flags from our antivirus network or browser blocklists. Our sandbox and visual analysis confirm a fully rendered, legitimate educational interface with no phishing forms or suspicious elements. Evidence from our research includes one positive Reddit mention describing it as a well-known safe Scratch mod, plus zero scam reports or complaints across multiple sources. The presence of an active GitHub repository, Discord, and wiki further supports its status as a real community project rather than a fraudulent site.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
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.
No scam visual patterns detected
The screenshot shows a clean, fully rendered educational coding platform with no scam indicators visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for penguinmod.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- penguinmod.com is the homepage for PenguinMod, described as a TurboWarp mod adding blocks/extensions for advanced Scratch-like projects (built on scratch.mit.edu and turbowarp.org)
- Has active community: r/PenguinMod subreddit, GitHub org PenguinMod/PenguinMod-Home, official X @penguin_mod, YouTube channel, Discord, and wiki.penguinmod.com
- studio.penguinmod.com (editor subdomain) has Scamadviser trust score of 86/100 and is rated legit/safe
- Multiple derivative mods exist (DinosaurMod, Snail IDE, Espresso) that explicitly fork or build on PenguinMod
- Privacy policy and terms available on site; updated Feb 2026; not affiliated with Scratch Foundation or TurboWarp
- Domain age ~959 days; no scam, complaint, or malware reports found in searches across web/Reddit
- Trustpilot page exists with 6 reviews invited; no public negative excerpts located
- Reddit (r/scratch)open
"Penguin mod is a well known modified editor for scratch . It is a website (like scratch), so there is no risk in using it."
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 3 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on penguinmod.com and not a lookalike like p-enguinmod.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Trust History
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 found no threat indicators on penguinmod.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- penguinmod.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 87/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. penguinmod.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E8, expiring in 45 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- penguinmod.com is 2.6 years old, registered on 10/12/2023 through Cloudflare, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. penguinmod.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- penguinmod.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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