Brand impersonation — not the real site
Typosquat of keepass.info registered 62 days ago, currently displaying an unconfigured nginx page.
Is thekeepass.com legit or a scam?
Typosquat of keepass.info registered 62 days ago, currently displaying an unconfigured nginx page.
This domain is a typosquat of the legitimate KeePass password manager site. It currently shows only a default nginx page and has a history of mimicking keepass.info with suspicious download links.
Score breakdown
See the live page ↓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.
What this means for you
You were probably about to log in or pay, thinking this was the real company.
It's a look-alike copy, not the genuine site. Your login or payment goes to scammers — the real company never sees it.
How this scam works
The trap, step by step
They register a look-alike domain and copy a trusted brand's website.
You arrive via a link or ad, believing it's the genuine company.
You log in or pay — to the impostor, not the brand.
Your credentials or money go to the scammers; the real company never sees it.
Recognising the pattern is the best defence — if a site follows these steps, close it and don't enter anything.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. Marker positions are approximate. See full visual analysis →
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 screenshot shows a default nginx web server landing page, indicating that the domain is currently unconfigured or parked.
What our vision model saw
2 signalsPage appears parked or non-functional
Displays standard nginx default welcome page
Intelligence
The domain thekeepass.com is a clear typosquat of the official KeePass project at keepass.info. A Reddit report from 2018 already flagged the site for copying content verbatim and pointing users to unknown download links. The domain itself is only 62 days old and currently serves nothing but the default nginx welcome page. No antivirus engines flagged the live page, yet the combination of name similarity, past warnings, and lack of any legitimate business presence raises concern. The visual scan confirms the page is parked or unconfigured rather than actively hosting malicious content right now.
Web Research Findings
Independent findings for thekeepass.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
- The domain currently displays a 'Welcome to nginx!' default page, indicating no active content.
- Historical reports identify thekeepass.com as an unofficial site that mimics the legitimate KeePass password manager project.
- Users have previously warned against downloading software from this domain due to the risk of unofficial or potentially malicious files.
- The domain was registered on May 21, 2026, making it a very recent registration.
- The official website for the KeePass project is keepass.info, not thekeepass.com.
- Redditopen
"Keepass.com is an unofficial website dedicated to the Keepass opensource software. It copies a lot of text verbatim from KeePass.info... the Windows/Mac download links point out to some site I haven't seen before, so I wouldn't necessarily "
The domain has historically been identified as an unofficial site that copies content from the legitimate KeePass project (keepass.info) and provides suspicious download links.
A Reddit thread from 2018 identified thekeepass.com as an unofficial site that copies text from the legitimate KeePass project and provides suspicious download links. No additional scam reports or complaints were located in current searches.
Domain Timeline
- May 21, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 2 months old today.
- Jul 22, 2026Latest security review — Flagged as dangerous
This scan re-ran every check; the current findings are detailed above.
thekeepass.com was registered very recently and is already flagged. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, and a young domain with active threat signals warrants extra caution.
Threat Detection
Scam Network
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.
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
1 of 21 categories showed signals
Each card names a specific harm pattern and the concrete facts that support it. The category score is supporting context; the report verdict above remains the final severity decision.
- Domain is a typosquat of keepass.info.
- The evidence pattern matches brand / clone-site impersonation.
1 of 21 categories showed signals
Each card names a specific harm pattern and the concrete facts that support it. The category score is supporting context; the report verdict above remains the final severity decision.
- Domain is a typosquat of keepass.info.
- The evidence pattern matches brand / clone-site impersonation.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedThe 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.
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
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with thekeepass.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
- Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
- OpenReport the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
Final Verdict
This domain is a typosquat of the legitimate KeePass password manager site. It currently shows only a default nginx page and has a history of mimicking keepass.info with suspicious download links.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- thekeepass.com is a high-risk brand impersonation — do not enter your login or personal details. Our review tagged it for clone site. The domain is only 2 months old through Cloud DNS Ltd — a fresh registration is a classic scam fingerprint. This pattern matches throwaway sites built to take money or data and disappear.
- No — thekeepass.com scored just 10/100 on our trust scale, and we detected active threat indicators. We recommend avoiding it entirely: don't log in, pay, download anything, or connect a wallet.
- If you've already paid or handed over details on thekeepass.com, act quickly. 1) Contact your bank or card issuer immediately and ask to dispute the charge or open a chargeback — the sooner you act, the better your odds. 2) Report the site to the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov or the FBI's IC3 at ic3.gov, and in the UK to Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. 3) If you entered a password, change it on thekeepass.com and anywhere you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. 4) Watch your bank and email for follow-up fraud, and keep screenshots as evidence.
- Often yes, if you act fast. Payments made by credit or debit card can frequently be reversed through a chargeback or dispute — contact your bank right away and explain it was a fraudulent site. Bank transfers and gift-card or voucher payments are much harder to recover, but you should still report them to your bank and to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov) or Action Fraud (actionfraud.police.uk). Avoid any "refund" or "recovery" service that contacts you first — it's usually a follow-up scam.
- If you entered anything on thekeepass.com, assume it was captured. Phishing pages exist purely to harvest what you type — usernames, passwords, card numbers, or one-time codes. Change the password immediately on the real site and anywhere you reused it, enable two-factor authentication, and if you entered card or banking details, contact your bank about the risk of fraud. Also be alert for follow-up "security" calls or emails that try to exploit the same information.
- You can report thekeepass.com through several official channels: the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at ic3.gov, and — in the UK — Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. You can also flag it to Google Safe Browsing (safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish) so other browsers warn about it, and report it to the company being impersonated if there is one. Reporting helps get scam sites taken down faster.
- Modern scams are built to look convincing. A valid SSL padlock, a polished template, stock photos, fake reviews, and a trust badge can all be added in minutes and prove nothing about who runs the site. Scammers buy cheap domains, clone real designs, and copy legal pages wholesale. That's exactly why an automated review that checks the domain's age, hosting, blacklists, and behaviour — rather than just how the page looks — is more reliable than a first impression.
- No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report thekeepass.com as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
- No — thekeepass.com is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- thekeepass.com is 2 months old, registered on May 21, 2026 through Cloud DNS Ltd. Scam sites are very often freshly registered and short-lived, so an age under six months is a reason for extra caution.
- thekeepass.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 22, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about thekeepass.com has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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