No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is cran.rstudio.com legit or a scam?
Official CRAN mirror for R statistical software with 28-year domain history, clean scans, and no scam indicators.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site is the well-known Comprehensive R Archive Network mirror operated by Posit (formerly RStudio). Its domain has existed for over 28 years and appears on the official CRAN mirrors list. All technical checks returned clean results including zero abuse reports on the hosting IP and valid SSL. The page content and visual analysis match the legitimate CRAN site exactly with no signs of cloning or tampering. No scam reports or complaints were located in our research, confirming long-standing legitimacy.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
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.
No scam visual patterns detected
The screenshot shows the fully rendered, legitimate CRAN website with standard professional layout and no scam indicators.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for cran.rstudio.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain cran.rstudio.com is an official CRAN mirror maintained by RStudio/Posit since at least 2013 (blog post dated Jun 10, 2013).
- Listed on official CRAN mirrors page: https://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html as a recommended mirror (often default in RStudio).
- Page title matches 'The Comprehensive R Archive Network' (CRAN); hosts R packages, manuals, and binaries.
- No scam, malware, or fraud reports found in web searches including 'scam', 'complaint', or Reddit.
- Domain age 10245 days (~28 years); active with recent package listings (e.g., 2026 dates).
- Technical issues reported on Reddit/StackOverflow are package install errors, not site legitimacy complaints.
- Uses CDN (historically CloudFront/S3) for global distribution; syncs with main CRAN.
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://cran.rstudio.com/
- 2200https://cran.rstudio.com/
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 cran.rstudio.com and not a lookalike like c-ran.rstudio.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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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 cran.rstudio.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- cran.rstudio.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 93/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. cran.rstudio.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01, expiring in 165 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- cran.rstudio.com is 28.1 years old, registered on 5/15/1998 through Amazon Registrar, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. cran.rstudio.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- cran.rstudio.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. 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.
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