Is steam-repacks.net legit or a scam?
Pirated-game distribution site flagged as malicious and phishing by 6 antivirus engines including Fortinet and CyRadar.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
Fake shop — do not order
12 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. The site shows patterns common to non-delivery scam shops. Don't submit payment details, and if you already paid by card or PayPal, start a chargeback today.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
The domain operates as a cracked-game repository offering pre-installed Steam titles for free download — a classic software-piracy operation. Six major antivirus engines (ADMINUSLabs, alphaMountain.ai, Certego, Chong Lua Dao, CyRadar, and Fortinet) flag the site as malicious or phishing, indicating the downloads likely bundle malware or credential-harvesting payloads. The site lacks any legitimate business contact information (no email, phone, or address), uses privacy-protected WHOIS registration, and loads external tracking domains. The 908-day domain age suggests this is an established piracy operation rather than a one-off scam, which makes it more dangerous — the operator has refined their distribution and evasion tactics over time.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for steam-repacks.net, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
No independent review aggregators have rated this domain. No scam reports or complaints were found in public sources, likely because the site operates in a niche (piracy) where victims do not typically file formal complaints.
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 5 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://steam-repacks.net/
- 2200https://steam-repacks.net/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
1 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page contains e-commerce copy (cart / checkout / shipping).
- No phone number or postal address anywhere on the page.
- Multiple contact / trust-signal red flags on the page.
- E-commerce page with multiple non-delivery red flags (missing real contact info, very young domain, crypto-only checkout, or fake-urgency).
1 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page contains e-commerce copy (cart / checkout / shipping).
- No phone number or postal address anywhere on the page.
- Multiple contact / trust-signal red flags on the page.
- E-commerce page with multiple non-delivery red flags (missing real contact info, very young domain, crypto-only checkout, or fake-urgency).
Fake shop — do not order
Signals common to non-delivery scam shops were detected on this site.
- Do not interact with steam-repacks.net
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- If you already paid by card or PayPal — start a chargeback
Contact your bank or card issuer and dispute the charge as "goods not received" or "merchant fraud." PayPal users can open a case in the Resolution Centre. Act within 120 days for card chargebacks in most jurisdictions.
- Save every piece of evidence
Screenshots of the checkout, order confirmation emails, any chat transcripts, and the product listing page. Chargeback and fraud reports go faster when you have receipts.
- OpenReport the shop
Report to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov), Action Fraud UK, or your local consumer-protection body. Post the URL on the MalwareTips scam forum so other buyers can find it.
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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags steam-repacks.net as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — steam-repacks.net scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. steam-repacks.net presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 79 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- steam-repacks.net is 2.5 years old, registered on 12/17/2023 through NameCheap, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 14 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged steam-repacks.net as malicious or suspicious (12 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. steam-repacks.net is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- steam-repacks.net 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 12, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around steam-repacks.net 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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