Online Tools for Looking up Potentially Malicious Websites

Some of these tools provide historical information; others examine the URL in real time to identify threats:

• AVG Website Safety Reports: Provides historical reputation data about the site
• BrightCloud URL/IP Lookup: Presents historical reputation data about the website
• Comodo Web Inspector: Examines the URL in real-time
• Cisco SenderBase: Presents historical reputation data about the website
• Cymon: Presents data from various threat intel feeds
• Deepviz: Offers historical threat intel data about IPs, domains, etc.
• Desenmascara.me: Flags websites suspected of selling counterfeit products
• FortiGuard lookup: Displays the URL’s history and category
• IBM X-Force Exchange: Provides historical data about IPs, URLs, etc.
• Joe Sandbox URL Analyzer: Examines the URL in real time
• Is It Hacked: Performs several checks in real time and consults some blacklists
• IsItPhishing: Assesses the specified URL in real-time
• KnownSec: Presents historical reputation data about the website; Chinese language only
• Norton Safe Web: Presents historical reputation data about the website
• PhishTank: Looks up the URL in its database of known phishing websites
• Malware Domain List: Looks up recently-reported malicious websites
• MalwareURL: Looks up the URL in its historical list of malicious websites
• McAfee Site Advisor: Presents historical reputation data about the website
• McAfee TrustedSource: Presents historical reputation data about the website
• MxToolbox: Queries multiple reputational sources for information about the IP or domain
• Open Threat Exchange: Presents diverse threat intelligence data from AlienVault
• PassiveTotal: Presents passive DNS and other threat intelligence data
• Quttera ThreatSign: Scans the specified URL for the presence of malware
• Reputation Authority: Shows reputational data on specified domain or IP address
• Sucuri SiteCheck: Scans the URL for malware in real time and looks it up in several blacklists
• Trend Micro Web Reputation: Presents historical reputation data about the website
• Unmask Parasites: Looks up the URL in the Google Safe Browsing database
• URL Blacklist: Looks up the URL in its database of suspicious sites
• URL Query: Looks up the URL in its database of suspicious sites and examines the site’s content
• urlscan.io: Examines the URL in real time and displays the requests it issues to render the page
• URLVoid and IPVoid: Looks up the URL or IP in several blacklisting services
• VirusTotal: Looks up the URL in several databases of malicious sites
• vURL: Retrieves and displays the source code of the page; looks up its status in several blocklists
• ThreatMiner: Presents diverse threat intelligence data
• WebPulse Site Review: Looks up the website in BlueCoat’s database
• Zscaler Zulu URL Risk Analyzer: Examines the URL using real-time and historical techniques