Is download.cdn9mc.com legit or a scam?
Fake Minecraft download site distributing malware via phishing, flagged by six antivirus engines including BitDefender and CyRadar.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
Brand impersonation — not the real site
13 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
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MT Intelligence
The domain download.cdn9mc.com impersonates Minecraft on a non-official domain and presents itself as a file-download service. Six major antivirus engines—BitDefender, CyRadar, alphaMountain.ai, ADMINUSLabs, Chong Lua Dao, and Forcepoint ThreatSeeker—flag it as phishing or malicious. The page loads external code from dr.cocashstealer.com and creasereturndisplayed.com, both known malware infrastructure. The site has no legitimate contact information (no email, phone, or address), no business registration, and the page title and meta description are generic placeholders. The 599-day domain age suggests this infrastructure has been operating for over a year, consistent with a persistent malware-distribution operation rather than a temporary phishing attempt.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for download.cdn9mc.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
No independent review data available.
Antivirus Engines
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.
- Page impersonates Minecraft on a non-official domain.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://download.cdn9mc.com/
- 2200https://download.cdn9mc.com/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
1 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page claims to be Minecraft.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
1 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page claims to be Minecraft.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with download.cdn9mc.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
- Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
- OpenReport the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags download.cdn9mc.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — download.cdn9mc.com scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. download.cdn9mc.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 81 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- download.cdn9mc.com is 1.6 years old, registered on 10/26/2024 through Squarespace Domains LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 14 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged download.cdn9mc.com as malicious or suspicious (13 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. download.cdn9mc.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- download.cdn9mc.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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 17, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around download.cdn9mc.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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