Brand impersonation — not the real site
Domain was registered only 12 days ago — brand-new sites are higher-risk by default. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
Is www-rarlab.com legit or a scam?
Typosquatted clone www-rarlab.com mimics rarlab.com to trick users into downloading malware-laced WinRAR, flagged by Kaspersky and reported on Reddit.
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
MT Intelligence
The site pretends to offer official WinRAR downloads but uses a hyphenated domain (www-rarlab.com) to impersonate the real rarlab.com. It's only 12 days old with no business registration or publisher details like win.rar GmbH. Kaspersky detects it as malware and Fortinet as spam, while Reddit users report adware bundles during installs. Our scam network confirms it's a direct clone and typosquat. These red flags make it a clear malware trap.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for www-rarlab.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain age: 12 days old as of April 23, 2026.
- Homepage title in Chinese: 'WinRAR - 文件压缩与解压工具下载与格式支持'; promotes WinRAR downloads but lacks company info, copyright, or official references.
- Official WinRAR site is rarlab.com, published by win.rar GmbH, copyright Alexander Roshal.
- Reddit thread dated 2026-04-23 reports junkcleaner.exe popup during WinRAR install from www-rarlab.com.
- Reddit users identify it as fake typosquat site delivering malware; links to any.run and VirusTotal analyses of payloads.
- No mentions of official publishers win.rar GmbH or rarlab.com on the suspicious site.
- Reddit r/antivirusopen
"As i was installing winrar after downloading from it i got an installation popup of junkcleaner."
- Reddit r/antivirus comment by madjokiopen
"Assume unsafe. It's fake site. Fake page that has - instead of dot."
- Reddit r/antivirus comment by rifteyy_open
"This is misinformation. The website is malicious."
- Reddit r/antivirus comment by kcbsforvtopen
"similar typosquatted domains with similar payloads"
Hyphenated domain imitating official rarlab.com; offers WinRAR downloads in Chinese without publisher info like win.rar GmbH or Alexander Roshal
Scam Network Intelligence
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 3 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
3 scam-type patterns detected
0 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.
- Domain is a typosquat of rarlab.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- Domain is a typosquat of rarlab.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as malware / drive-by / cracked app.
0 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.
- Domain is a typosquat of rarlab.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- Domain is a typosquat of rarlab.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as malware / drive-by / cracked app.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with www-rarlab.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.
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 from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review flags www-rarlab.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — www-rarlab.com scored 4/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. www-rarlab.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E8, expiring in 76 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- www-rarlab.com is 12 days old, registered on 4/10/2026 through Dynadot Inc. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 2 out of 91 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged www-rarlab.com as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. www-rarlab.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- www-rarlab.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.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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