SAFE
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Security Review
Is cdn.discordapp.com legit or a scam?
Our verdict:Safe· 91/100
SafeSuspiciousDangerous
Official Discord CDN subdomain for attachments with clean scans, valid SSL, and an 11-year domain history.
Why we trust it
0
Trust score
SAFE
Heuristics 90·MT 92
Category tags
content-deliveryofficial95% MT confidence
View density
Analysis Summary
Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
11 years old
Registered Feb 26, 2015
MT Intelligence
Safe
Low likelihood · 95% confidence
MT Intelligence
0%
Confidence
The URL belongs to cdn.discordapp.com, Discord's long-established content delivery network used to host images, videos, and files shared in the app. Our antivirus network returned zero flags and browser blocklists show it as clean. The domain is over 11 years old with valid SSL and a low-abuse hosting IP. Independent user reports confirm it as the legitimate attachment host rather than a fake or malicious site. While malware has occasionally been uploaded through Discord attachments on this CDN, the domain itself is not the source of the threat.
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cdn.discordapp.com
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Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for cdn.discordapp.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
Domain age
11 yrs
Registered Feb 2015
Business registration
No public record found
Could not match the site to a registered company — common for small sites.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
14526 complaints · 2 positive
Key findings
7 headline facts from open-web research
- cdn.discordapp.com is the official Content Delivery Network subdomain used by Discord for hosting user-uploaded attachments (images, videos, files) at paths like /attachments/{channelID}/{fileID}/{filename}
- Domain registered 2015-02-26; registrar Cloudflare (per URLhaus)
- Discord documentation and support confirm cdn.discordapp.com as their attachment CDN; legacy discordapp.com domain still referenced alongside discord.com
- URLhaus reports 14,526 malware URLs associated with the host cdn.discordapp.com (mostly offline)
- Security researchers (Zscaler 2021, Malwarebytes forums) document frequent abuse where malware (ransomware, stealers) is hosted via Discord attachment URLs on this CDN
- Antivirus products (e.g., Malwarebytes) have flagged specific cdn.discordapp.com/attachments URLs due to malware hosting; domain itself is not inherently malicious
- Attachments are publicly accessible via direct URL; Discord has implemented expiration on some links to mitigate abuse
Positive reviews (2)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for cdn.discordapp.com and found zero scam reports. Two Reddit threads positively identify the subdomain as Discord's official attachment host. 14,526 malware URLs have been associated with the host due to public attachment abuse, but these are offline and do not indicate the domain itself is malicious.
Antivirus Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not in pass
ESET-NOD32
Not in pass
Avira
Not in pass
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Clean
Emsisoft
Clean
Security Scans
Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Domain History
Age11 years old
RegistrarCloudflare, Inc.
RegisteredFeb 26, 2015
ExpiresFeb 26, 2027
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerGoogle Trust Services · WE1
ExpiresJul 31, 2026 (63d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingCloudflare, Inc.
Server locationUS
Server Reputation
Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file6
ISPCloudflare, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network
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 cdn.discordapp.com and not a lookalike like c-dn.discordapp.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
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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 cdn.discordapp.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- cdn.discordapp.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 91/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. cdn.discordapp.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 63 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- cdn.discordapp.com is 11.3 years old, registered on 2/26/2015 through Cloudflare, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report cdn.discordapp.com as clean.
- No. cdn.discordapp.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- cdn.discordapp.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.
Final Verdict
0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·cdn.discordapp.com
SAFE
This is Discord's official content delivery network subdomain for user attachments. Our analysis finds zero malicious detections, a clean blocklist record, and an 11-year-old domain with positive confirmations from users. No action is required.
AV engines
92
MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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