No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is pghub.io legit or a scam?
Legitimate Tapad ad-tracking subdomain with 5.6-year-old domain, clean scans, and no scam reports.
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 raw XML file listing for an Amazon S3 bucket, indicating a misconfigured or non-functional web server rather than a consumer-facing website.
What our vision model saw
3 signalsPage appears parked or non-functional
Page displays a raw XML directory listing from an Amazon S3 bucket
No user interface, branding, or functional web content is present
Intelligence
The domain pghub.io belongs to Tapad, Inc., a New York company acquired by Experian in 2020. It was registered in November 2020 through CSC Corporate Domains and currently resolves to Google infrastructure. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP carries only a single abuse report with a zero abuse score. The visual scan shows a raw S3 bucket listing rather than a consumer site, which aligns with an internal ad-tracking endpoint rather than a public storefront. No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions appear in our web research. The combination of age, corporate ownership, clean reputation data, and absence of malicious signals supports a safe classification.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for pghub.io, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain pghub.io registered November 30, 2020 (approx. 5.6 years old as of mid-2026); expires November 30, 2026.
- WHOIS registrant: Tapad, Inc. (New York, US); uses privacy redaction; registrar CSC Corporate Domains, Inc. (high-end).
- Hosted on Google infrastructure (IP 35.241.45.217); name servers Google Cloud.
- Appears in ad/tracking contexts (e.g., cookies, Tapad SDK references in S3 bucket listings); classified under Marketing/Advertising.
- Traffic: ~2.25K visits/month in GB (Semrush rank #431k); Tranco popularity noted in reviews.
- No scam reports, complaints, or negative user reviews found on Reddit, Trustpilot, BBB, or scam databases.
- ScamAdviser and Gridinsoft assign positive trust scores (very likely legit / 78/100).
Registered to Tapad, Inc. (NY); acquired by Experian in 2020. Domain registered Nov 30, 2020 via CSC Corporate Domains / MarkMonitor.
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for pghub.io and found no scam reports or complaints. Two independent review aggregators assigned positive trust scores, describing the domain as likely legitimate and reliable.
Threat Detection
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.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedDomain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://pghub.io/
- 2200https://pghub.io/
Server Reputation
What to do
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 pghub.io and not a lookalike like p-ghub.io.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
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
pghub.io is a legitimate ad-tracking subdomain owned by Tapad, Inc. The domain is 5.6 years old, registered through a premium registrar, and shows no scam reports or malicious detections.
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 found no threat indicators on pghub.io. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- pghub.io passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 88/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. pghub.io presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WR3, expiring in 88 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 pghub.io as clean.
- No. pghub.io is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- pghub.io resolves to an IP operated by Google LLC 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.
- Yes. pghub.io sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on July 8, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around pghub.io 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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