Is soggy.cat legit or a scam?
A 3.9-year-old meme fan site featuring the viral Soggy Cat photo, with positive independent reviews and no malware or phishing threats detected.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
The domain has been registered for 1,412 days (nearly 4 years), which rules out the typical ephemeral fraud pattern. Our antivirus network shows only 1 detection (Lumu flagging malware, likely a false positive given the site's benign content and context). Independent review aggregators report a 4-star rating across 17 reviews with no complaints or scam reports in any database we searched. The page content is plainly humorous — a simple layout with meme images, jokes, and links to GitHub and a satirical 'malware (not)' subdomain. The site has no login forms, no countdown timers, no contact harvesting, and no business registration (expected for a personal fan site). The one minor signal is the hosting IP's abuse score of 28/100 with 18 reports, but this is typical for shared hosting and does not correlate with the site's own behaviour.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for soggy.cat, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- soggy.cat is a long-running (registered ~1412 days / ~3.9 years) personal/humor website featuring the viral 2021 photo of a wet cat named Shark (aka Soggy Cat or Caesar Shark) in a bathtub
- The site includes a simple menu with links to /github, a 'no css' mode, upload feature, and https://malware.soggy.cat (labeled 'malware (not)')
- Page content is meme-oriented with additional humorous images and quotes (e.g. "i ate my goog cube dont tell anyone")
- Gridinsoft analysis gives it a 79/100 trust score with no malware or phishing detected and references positive customer feedback (4.5/5 from ~16 reviews)
- Trustpilot shows a 4-star rating based on 17 reviews; no scam reports, complaints, or negative security flags found across web searches
- Associated with X account @ssoggycat and GitHub ssoggycat; separate from the original cat owner (@sillyfuny / Biscuit); described in its FAQ as a small fan site hosting the Soggy Cat image
- No business registration, company details, or WHOIS owner information publicly tied to a formal entity
- Gridinsoftopen
"Based on current analysis, soggy.cat appears to be generally safe. No major malware or phishing threats were detected, and strong independent trust and positive customer feedback from 16 reviews support this assessment."
- Trustpilotopen
"Do you agree with soggy.cat's 4-star rating? Check out what 17 people have written so far"
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for soggy.cat and found no scam reports or complaints. Instead, we found positive independent reviews: Gridinsoft reports a 79/100 trust score with no malware or phishing threats, and Trustpilot shows a 4-star rating across 17 reviews. The site is documented as a long-running fan site dedicated to the viral Soggy Cat internet meme, with no evidence of commercial fraud, credential harvesting, or malicious intent.
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.
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 soggy.cat and not a lookalike like s-oggy.cat.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.
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 soggy.cat. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- soggy.cat passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 73/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. soggy.cat presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 62 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- soggy.cat is 3.9 years old, registered on 8/3/2022 through Openprovider. 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 soggy.cat as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. soggy.cat is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- soggy.cat resolves to an IP operated by GitHub, 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 16, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around soggy.cat 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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