No specific threat detected
Official GitHub Container Registry with clean scans and no malicious indicators.
Is ghcr.io legit or a scam?
Official GitHub Container Registry with clean scans and no malicious indicators.
ghcr.io is the legitimate GitHub Container Registry. Zero antivirus detections and clean blocklist status confirm it is safe.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual 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 similarities noted — cleared by the overall checks
Our vision model noted some visual similarity to a known brand, but the domain, security records, and reputation checks confirm this is the legitimate site — so this is shown for transparency, not as a red flag.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
Intelligence
The domain serves GitHub's official container registry service and loads the expected GitHub Actions marketing content. Antivirus engines returned zero detections across 92 scanners while browser blocklists also cleared the URL. The hosting IP carries a zero abuse score and the SSL certificate is valid from a recognised issuer. Evidence shows the site is frequently targeted by typosquatters such as ghrc.io, but the legitimate domain itself shows no malicious behaviour. Business registration records confirm ownership by GitHub, Inc. in the United States.
Web Research Findings
Independent findings for ghcr.io, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
- ghcr.io is the legitimate, official domain for the GitHub Container Registry (GHCR), used for hosting OCI-compliant container images.
- The domain is a core component of the GitHub ecosystem and integrates directly with GitHub Actions and repository permissions.
- ghcr.io is frequently targeted by typosquatting attacks, most notably 'ghrc.io', which mimics the registry to steal GitHub credentials from developers.
- Users are advised to verify registry URLs carefully, as mistyping the domain can lead to credential theft via malicious OCI API responses.
- Legitimate use of ghcr.io involves authentication via GitHub Personal Access Tokens (PATs) or the automatic GITHUB_TOKEN within GitHub Actions workflows.
- bmitch.netopen
"A simple typo of ghcr.io to ghrc.io would normally be a small goof... But in this case, that typo appears to be doing something very malicious, stealing GitHub credentials."
- reddit.comopen
"Researchers found that attackers set up a typosquatting registry (ghrc.io) mimicking GitHub's legitimate ghcr.io. If developers mistype, they may unknowingly pull malicious containers."
ghcr.io is the official domain for the GitHub Container Registry, a service operated by GitHub, Inc.
Two public reports mention a typosquatting domain (ghrc.io) that mimics the legitimate ghcr.io registry to harvest GitHub credentials. One report appears on bmitch.net and another on Reddit. No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions were found for the actual ghcr.io domain.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedThe plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
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.
- Links to 104 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://ghcr.io/
- 2301https://ghcr.io/
- 3301https://github.com/features/packagescross-domain
- 4200https://github.com/features/actionscross-domain
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
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 ghcr.io and not a lookalike like g-hcr.io.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.
Final Verdict
ghcr.io is the legitimate GitHub Container Registry. Zero antivirus detections and clean blocklist status confirm it is safe.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on ghcr.io, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, it ranks among the world's most-visited sites, Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
- ghcr.io passed our automated checks with a trust score of 94/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
- Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from ghcr.io), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from ghcr.io is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
- No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report ghcr.io as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
- No — ghcr.io is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- Yes — ghcr.io presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, valid for another 49 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
- ghcr.io resolves to an IP operated by GitHub, Inc. in US (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
- Yes — ghcr.io ranks in the global top 100,000 most-visited sites, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. Genuine popularity doesn't automatically make a site safe, but throwaway scam domains almost never reach this level of traffic, so it's a meaningful point in the site's favour.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 22, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about ghcr.io has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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