Last Updated on November 23, 2024 by Mathew Diekhake
Kickass Torrents (katcr.to) is a directory for torrent files and magnet links. As with many torrenting sites, Kickass Torrents has oeprated out of many domain names which are usually mirrors of the site and uploaded onto different domains to prevent others from taking down their site.
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DESCRIPTION
When I analyzed katcr.to, there was a list of latest torrents for each section of the website. When I clicked some of the links, pop-up ads loaded instead. I don’t recommend having pop-up ads because they hurt the user experience too much. And when the user experience is harmed, so too is the user engagement, and the user engagement signals are what search engines look at to assess the quality of your content. The goal is to decrease the bounce rate as much as possible, not automatically force users off our domains like a pop-up ad wants to do. I noticed some recent events in the available torrent files, such as the Mike Tyson and Jake Paul boxing match, etc. I liked to see recent events because I think that would have increased user engagement. On the single post pages for the torrents, there were two Download links. From my experience, one of these was likely going to be fake/a trick and the other would contain the magnet link I’m looking to download to my torrent client. One of the Download links was much larger than the other. The larger Download link was fake and the smaller one was the one containing the torrent file. I don’t recommend having tricks like this on the single post page: the Download link should be obvious and there should be no secondary torrent link claiming to be the torrent magnet link when it isn’t. Once again, it comes back to user signals. Search engines want to see users have a seamless experience and when they do, it will help your domain rank better for the torrents. 11/23/2024
HISTORY
As of April 2024, katcr.to has 998,115k monthly views (2.4M, Apr 2023). Katcr.to was founded on January 12, 2016. The Internet Archive has saved the domain katcr.to 635 times between January 12, 2016 and May 6, 2023.
Is katcr.to Safe?
I analyzed katcr.to for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam. Here are the results:
I checked katcr.to on Sucuri, and it returned with a critical security risk warning.
Sucuri says katcr.to is a critical security risk because it has been blacklisted by McAfee. Sucuri also says the site katcr.to is running outdated software (PHP under 7.4.6). Outdated software usually gets graded as a medium security risk by Sucuri.
I then ran a parasite scan with Unmask Parasites on katcr.to, and it is clean.
I also checked katcr.to on VirusTotal and it says that Seclookup has flagged the domain as malicious.
Further, katcr.to is blocked by Seclookup on URLVoid.
In conclusion, Sucuri shows the site katcr.to is blacklisted by McAfee. Unmask Parasites says the site katcr.to is clean of parasites. And the security vendor Seclookup has flagged the domain katcr.to as malicious on VirusTotal. Overall, 2 security vendors out of 86 have blacklisted or flagged the domain katcr.to as malicious. OVERALL GRADE: Suspicious.
Links and Profiles
Website: Katcr.to
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