No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is sharethis.com legit or a scam?
Established social sharing and data platform with a 27-year-old domain and zero malicious detections.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as a legitimate business offering free sharing buttons and audience data products. Its domain was registered in 1999 and the company has operated since 2007 with matching corporate details. Our antivirus network returned zero flags and the hosting IP shows no abuse history. The page loads a professional corporate layout without any fake-shop or phishing patterns. A 2018 data breach is noted in public records, which explains the two complaints found during research.
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
Clean, professional corporate site with no scam indicators visible. Appears to be the legitimate ShareThis website.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for sharethis.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain sharethis.com registered since ~1999 (9957 days old as of query); company founded 2007 in Palo Alto, CA
- Operates as social sharing tools provider; collects behavioral data for advertisers; now part of Predactiv, Inc.
- 2018 data breach exposed ~41 million user records (names, emails, etc.); data later sold on dark web
- Trustpilot profile unclaimed with 1 review (negative, score 3.2/5); Reddit users discuss blocking its tracking scripts for privacy
- Listed on Crunchbase, LinkedIn (9k+ followers), Wikipedia as legitimate tech company with offices in multiple US cities
- No evidence of typosquatting or cloning famous brands; official site matches page title/description provided
- Gridinsoftopen
"We reviewed sharethis.com and found strong legitimacy signals. Current checks point to an established low-risk profile, with a trust score of 100/100"
Our research found no scam reports for sharethis.com. One review site assigned a perfect trust score. Two complaints exist alongside public discussion of a 2018 data breach that exposed user records. The company maintains profiles on LinkedIn, Crunchbase, and Wikipedia confirming its long operating history.
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 3 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://sharethis.com/
- 2200https://sharethis.com/
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 sharethis.com and not a lookalike like s-harethis.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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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 sharethis.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- sharethis.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 83/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. sharethis.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, expiring in 284 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- sharethis.com is 27.3 years old, registered on 3/2/1999 through Amazon Registrar, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report sharethis.com as clean.
- No. sharethis.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- sharethis.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, 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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