No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is fdownloader.net legit or a scam?
Established Facebook video downloader with a 4.8-year-old domain, clean antivirus results, and positive user feedback.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as a straightforward tool for downloading Facebook videos in various qualities. Our antivirus network returned zero detections and browser blocklists show no flags. The domain is 1755 days old with valid SSL and a clean hosting IP that has zero abuse reports. Evidence from our research shows two positive independent review aggregator reviews and user reports of successful downloads on Reddit, with no scam complaints found. The page renders as a normal functional tool without login forms or suspicious elements.
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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
Clean, fully rendered page for a Facebook video downloader tool with professional layout and no visible scam indicators.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for fdownloader.net, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered ~4.8 years ago (1755 days) via Tucows Domains Inc.; long-term history noted in security scans
- Trustpilot profile shows 3.8/5 rating from 2 reviews, both positive excerpts available
- Multiple Reddit users (r/DataHoarder, r/Piracy, r/techsupport) report successful downloads of public and private Facebook videos using the site
- Gridinsoft and Scamdoc assign 99/100 or 'Excellent' trust scores with no malware/phishing detections
- Domain WHOIS shows privacy protection; no public business entity registration details found
- No scam, complaint, malware, or virus reports specifically tied to fdownloader.net in search results
- Trustpilotopen
"Very efficient and easy to apply."
- Trustpilotopen
"Thank you Fdownloader for helping me download a 8 hour long 1080p video from facebook, in case you're wondering what the heck can be 8h long, it's a "just for laughs" gags compilation titled "Pranks That Radiate Vine Energy" which will make"
Our research located two positive independent review aggregator reviews for fdownloader.net and multiple Reddit reports of successful public video downloads. No scam reports, complaints, or malware mentions were found across consumer sites and forums.
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.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://fdownloader.net/
- 2301https://fdownloader.net/
- 3200https://fdownloader.net/en
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 fdownloader.net and not a lookalike like f-downloader.net.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.
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 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 fdownloader.net. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- fdownloader.net passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 87/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. fdownloader.net presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 73 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- fdownloader.net is 4.8 years old, registered on 8/8/2021 through Tucows Domains 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 fdownloader.net as clean.
- No. fdownloader.net is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- fdownloader.net 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.
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