Is softarchive.download safe?
http://softarchive.download/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 0 of 5 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (60 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture · limited: did not fully complete
- domain records: completed
- web research · not run: did not fully complete
Warez piracy site distributing cracked software and scene releases; flagged as suspicious by security scanners despite clean antivirus results.
SoftArchive is a known warez and piracy distribution site operating under the softarchive.download domain. While our antivirus network shows no malware detections, the site facilitates illegal software distribution and has been flagged by independent security scanners as suspicious.
Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 54/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 2 findings pulled the score down.
What pulled the score down
- ReasonThe legacy verdict is adverse but its decisive evidence is incomplete
- ReasonA required verification for Safe is incomplete
What pushed the score up
No supporting finding was saved with this report.
This report saved its reasons without a severity for each one, so they are listed as saved. Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
SoftArchive operates as a long-running piracy platform distributing cracked software, ebooks, and scene releases. The domain softarchive.download is actively promoted as the current primary mirror on the project's own status site (sastatus.com) and discussed in piracy communities like r/Piracy and r/RealDebrid. One independent security scanner flagged the domain with a 'Generic Suspicious Object' detection, and independent trust aggregators rate it at 40/100 — well below the threshold for legitimate services. The site has no business registration, no contact information, and no legitimate company details. While our antivirus engines have not detected malware on this specific domain, the combination of known piracy association, security-scanner flagging, and low trust scores reflects the inherent risk of visiting warez distribution platforms.
Page Content
The site presents itself as 'SoftArchive,' claiming to be 'the oldest and most reliable resource for direct download.' The page lists categories for Software, Books, Courses, Movies, and TV, with a login system and community features (1,212 registered users online at scan time). No contact email, phone, or postal address is provided anywhere on the page.
Infrastructure
Domain registered 428 days ago via NameSilo, LLC with privacy protection disabled. SSL certificate is valid (Google Trust Services issuer, 75 days to expiry). Hosting IP 172.67.143.189 has zero abuse reports and a clean reputation score. The site loads external resources from sanet.st, sanet.download, sastatus.com, and Cloudflare Insights.
Domain History
The domain is presented as the current primary mirror for the long-running SoftArchive/SAnet warez project. The project's own status site (sastatus.com) actively lists softarchive.download as the official primary domain and promotes mirrors as 'safe.' This represents a relatively recent rebrand or mirror (428 days old), consistent with piracy platforms rotating domains to evade takedowns.
Web Reputation
Independent trust aggregators rate the site at 40/100 (questionable). One security scanner (PCRisk) flagged it with 'Generic Suspicious Object.' Our antivirus network shows zero detections across 93 engines and zero browser blocklist hits. Reddit discussions mention the site as a source for cracked software and scene releases, with users acknowledging safety concerns but no widespread confirmed malware reports specific to this domain.
Why the score is 54
The legacy verdict is adverse but its decisive evidence is incomplete. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsSaved analysis from May 13, 2026
No detections across 60 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 33 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Unrated
- CINS Army - Clean
- Cluster25 - Unrated
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Clean
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Clean
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safebrowsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- PhishLabs - Unrated
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- securolytics - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Unrated
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiUnrated
- BitDefendercomputersandsoftware
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerinformation technology
- Googledownloads_and_sharing
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
Visual warning signs were identified
We could not capture a fully-rendered screenshot of this page; visual analysis is inconclusive.
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Screenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
SoftArchive
- Meta description
SoftArchive is the oldest and most reliable resource for direct download.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
SoftArchive
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 60 antivirus results.
What independent research found
No complete independent-research result was available in this saved report.
What remains unverified
5 of the 5 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainsoftarchive.download
- Redirects tosoftarchive.download
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencessanet.st · sanet.download
Domain Timeline
- Apr 8, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 1.1 years old when this review was saved.
- Jun 10, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for softarchive.download.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://softarchive.download/
- 2200https://softarchive.download/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | saved result · analysed May 13, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Jun 10, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Jun 10, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Limited | Adverse | this scan · Jun 10, 2026 |
| Independent research | Independent research was not available for this report | Unavailable | Adverse | Not available |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnesssaved result · analysed May 13, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Jun 10, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Jun 10, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Jun 10, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultIndependent research was not available for this report
- CompletionUnavailableFindingAdverse
- FreshnessNot available
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is softarchive.download a scam or a legit website?
Is softarchive.download safe to use?
What should I do if I already gave my details to softarchive.download?
Can I get my money back from softarchive.download?
Is my device at risk after visiting softarchive.download?
How do I report softarchive.download?
Why does softarchive.download look legitimate if it's a scam?
Has softarchive.download been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is softarchive.download on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Warez piracy site distributing cracked software and scene releases; flagged as suspicious by security scanners despite clean antivirus results.
The written conclusion remains part of the saved report.
SoftArchive is a known warez and piracy distribution site operating under the softarchive.download domain. While our antivirus network shows no malware detections, the site facilitates illegal software distribution and has been flagged by independent security scanners as suspicious.
09 · Community
Community
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