No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is api.msn.com legit or a scam?
Official Microsoft MSN API subdomain with 30+ years of age, valid Microsoft SSL, and clean scans across our antivirus network and blocklists.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site is api.msn.com, an API endpoint under the trusted MSN domain owned by Microsoft. It passes all checks from our antivirus network, sandbox, and major browser blocklists with zero flags. The domain is over 30 years old with a reputable registrar, and SSL is issued by Microsoft itself. The page appears non-functional, but this is expected for API services that don't serve user-facing content. Minor abuse reports on the hosting IP don't outweigh the strong legitimacy signals.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual Screenshot 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 page indicates that services are unavailable, suggesting it may be non-functional.
What our vision model saw
1 signalPage appears parked or non-functional
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for api.msn.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for api.msn.com and did not find scam reports, complaints, or impersonation signals. The domain age, registration record and aggregator reviews shown above are consistent with a legitimate site.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on api.msn.com and not a lookalike like a-pi.msn.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
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 found no threat indicators on api.msn.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- api.msn.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 95/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. api.msn.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Microsoft Corporation · Microsoft TLS G2 RSA CA OCSP 10, expiring in 111 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- api.msn.com is 31.5 years old, registered on 11/10/1994 through MarkMonitor Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 91 antivirus engines in our malware network report api.msn.com as clean.
- No. api.msn.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- api.msn.com resolves to an IP operated by Microsoft Corporation in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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.
Final Verdict
This is a legitimate Microsoft MSN API endpoint. All our security scans are clean, with no malware or phishing detections. It's safe despite the non-functional page, which is normal for APIs.
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