What Is KickassTorrents?

KickassTorrents (kikass.to) is a torrent site. As of July 2023, the site kikass.to has an estimated 1.8 million monthly views, according to SimilarWeb. The Wayback Machine estimates kikass.to was founded on July 12, 2013. The Internet Archive has saved the domain kikass.to 5,859 times between July 12, 2013 and September 2, 2023.

Is KickassTorrents Safe?

I analyzed kikass.to for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam. Here are the results:

I checked the site kikass.to on the online malware scanner Sucuri and it returned as a medium security risk. You can see the same here: Sucuri scan for the site kikass.to.

kikass.to Sucuri results

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Sucuri says the site kikass.to is a medium security risk because it runs outdated software (PHP under 7.4.6).

Some hardening improvements can be made:

  • Missing security header for ClickJacking Protection. Alternatively, you can use Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors 'none'.
  • Missing security header to prevent Content Type sniffing.
  • Missing Strict-Transport-Security security header.
  • Missing Content-Security-Policy directive. We recommend to add the following CSP directives (you can use default-src if all values are the same): script-src, object-src, base-uri, frame-src
  • Leaked PHP version. Your site is displaying your PHP version in the HTTP headers. Please set expose_php = Off.

However, these hardening improvements don’t impact the Sucuri grade.

To check this further I ran a parasite scan with Unmask Parasites on the site kikass.to and it says the page is clean. You can see the same here: Unmask Parasites scan for the site kikass.to.

I also checked the site kikass.to on VirusTotal and it is flagged as malicious by CRDF and suspicious by alphaMountain.ai. You can see the same here: VirusTotal scan for the site kikass.to.

kikass.to VirusTotal results

In conclusion, Sucuri says the site kikass.to is a medium security risk because it runs outdated software (PHP under 7.4.6). Unmask Parasites says the site kikass.to is clean of parasites. VirusTotal says the domain kikass.to is flagged as malicious by CRDF and suspicious by alphaMountain.ai. Overall grade: Relatively Safe.