No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is steaminventoryhelper.com legit or a scam?
Official landing page for a popular Steam browser extension with a 10-year history and over one million active users.
Analysis Summary
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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 appears to be a legitimate landing page for the Steam Inventory Helper browser extension, featuring professional design and standard functional elements.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsProfessional layout with consistent branding for Steam Inventory Helper
Functional navigation menu with News, Partners, and Support links
Clear call-to-action buttons linking to official Chrome Store and direct download
High-quality graphics related to Steam gaming items
No visible countdown timers, fake trust badges, or intrusive pop-ups
Intelligence
The domain has been registered for over 10 years and maintains a high global traffic rank, which are strong indicators of an established service. Our antivirus network shows zero detections across 92 different engines, and the hosting infrastructure has a clean reputation. The site provides direct links to official browser stores where the extension holds a high 4.5-star rating from thousands of reviews. Although we found several community reports regarding account compromises, these often stem from the inherent risks of browser extensions rather than the website being a malicious front. The presence of a registered business entity in Cyprus further supports its status as a legitimate operation. We have high confidence that this is the authentic home for the tool, though users should always be mindful of the data access such tools require.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for steaminventoryhelper.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain steaminventoryhelper.com registered 2016-01-15 (10.5 years old); official site for Steam Inventory Helper browser extension.
- Extension listed on Chrome Web Store with 4.5/5 rating from 17.7K reviews and 1,000,000+ users; also on Edge, Firefox, Opera.
- Developer: RedBoon Limited (Cyprus company ΗΕ 432621, active since March 2022, address in Nicosia).
- Related site core.steaminventoryhelper.com is a Steam login portal for the service; multiple Reddit/Steam reports link it to unauthorized logins or account drains.
- Multiple user complaints on Reddit (r/SteamScams, r/csgomarketforum), Steam forums, and Chrome support about hacks, scams, or info theft after install.
- Official Steam group has 243k+ members; sih.app promotes the tool as safe with 10+ years operation and no password/wallet access.
- Some older concerns (2017-2024) about safety or compromise; extension claims it only uses necessary permissions.
- Reddit r/SteamScamsopen
"2 Friends of mine got hacked in the last few days. Both had this wierd external login. Both dont know what it is, both dont have steam inventory helper."
- Steam Community Discussionsopen
"Steam Inventory Helper or how my account was drained to the last cent... I installed SIH (Steam Inventory Helper)..."
- Google Chrome Communityopen
"why is this still in google market extension/ this bs stealing your info, after installing this i got weird friends requests and then got attempted of login to my account from india. remove this total scam extension from your store"
- Backpack.tf Forumsopen
"There is a possible breach of the Steam Inventory Helper Plugin on chromium based browsers. If you use it, for your safety, please GET RID OF IT"
- Chrome Web Storeopen
"4.5 out of 5 (17.7K ratings)"
- sih.appopen
"SIH has been available since 2014 with over 11 million users and a 4.5/5 rating on the Chrome Web Store (>17,000 reviews). SIH does not access your Steam password or wallet."
- Steam Community Groupopen
"This is an official group of Steam Inventory Helper extension. Official website - https://t.sih-db.com/15GEAH (243,643 members)"
REDBOON LIMITED, reg.no. ΗΕ 432621, registered 28/03/2022, Active status, address Boumpoulinas 1-3, BOUBOULINA BUILDING, 4th floor, Flat/Office 42, 1070 Nicosia, Cyprus. Director: ANDREI MEDVEDEV.
Domain Timeline
- Jan 15, 2016Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 10 years old today.
- Jul 7, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
steaminventoryhelper.com has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
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://steaminventoryhelper.com/
- 2403https://steaminventoryhelper.com/
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 steaminventoryhelper.com and not a lookalike like s-teaminventoryhelper.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
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
This is the official website for Steam Inventory Helper, a long-standing browser extension with over a million users. While some users have reported account security concerns, the site itself is a legitimate software landing page. Exercise caution with the permissions you grant to any third-party gaming extension.
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 steaminventoryhelper.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- steaminventoryhelper.com 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. steaminventoryhelper.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E8, expiring in 34 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- steaminventoryhelper.com is 10.5 years old, registered on 1/15/2016 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. 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 steaminventoryhelper.com as clean.
- No. steaminventoryhelper.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- steaminventoryhelper.com 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.
- Yes. steaminventoryhelper.com 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.
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