Is imagemagick.org legit or a scam?
Official home of the ImageMagick open-source project, featuring a 26-year-old domain and a perfect safety record across our security network.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
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 legitimate, fully-rendered homepage for ImageMagick, a well-known open-source software project, with no visual indicators of scamming or malicious intent.
What our vision model saw
6 signalsProfessional navigation bar with links to documentation, tools, and community
Clear description of open-source software project and its capabilities
Functional search bar and theme toggle in the header
Links to official repository and version history
Presence of a legitimate 'Sponsor' button for project support
Clean, standard documentation layout without intrusive ads or urgency tactics
MT Intelligence
The domain has been registered for over 26 years, which is a primary indicator of a long-standing and stable project. Our antivirus network shows zero detections across 92 different engines, and the site is not present on any major browser blocklists. The page content is professional, providing extensive documentation, security policies, and links to its official GitHub repository. Independent research confirms the site is operated by ImageMagick Studio LLC, the legal entity maintaining the software since its copyright transfer from DuPont in 1990. There are no reports of fraudulent activity associated with this domain.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for imagemagick.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- imagemagick.org is the official homepage of the ImageMagick open-source image processing suite, as confirmed by its GitHub repository (github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick), Wikipedia, and SourceForge.
- The project is maintained by ImageMagick Studio LLC, which has held the copyright since 1990 after transfer from DuPont. The LLC is listed with an address in Lost Springs, Wyoming.
- Domain age of 9773 days (~26.8 years) aligns with the project's long history (started 1987, public since 1990).
- No scam, phishing, or malicious site reports found; searches for "imagemagick.org scam" or similar return only discussions of past software vulnerabilities (e.g., ImageTragick 2016, later CVEs) in the tool itself, not the website.
- Official downloads and source are hosted/linked from this domain; occasional false-positive malware flags on source tarballs (e.g., GitHub issue #8413) have been noted and attributed to false positives by Google Safe Browsing.
- The site provides security policy guidance (https://imagemagick.org/security-policy/) and links to a policy validator tool.
- Widely used and respected in open-source community, integrated in many projects (Drupal, Python bindings, Linux distros, etc.).
- Wikipediaopen
"Developer: ImageMagick Studio LLC. It was freely released in 1990 when DuPont agreed to transfer copyright to ImageMagick Studio LLC, still currently the project maintainer organization."
- GitHubopen
"ImageMagick is a free, open-source software suite for creating, editing, converting, and displaying images. The main website for ImageMagick can be found at https://imagemagick.org/."
- SourceForgeopen
"ImageMagick Web Site (https://imagemagick.org)"
Operated by ImageMagick Studio LLC (registered in Wyoming, address listed as Lost Springs, WY 82224 on GitHub). Maintains the project since 1990 copyright transfer from DuPont. Trademark registered (US PTO serial 78333969).
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.
- Links to 8 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://imagemagick.org/
- 2200https://imagemagick.org/
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 imagemagick.org and not a lookalike like i-magemagick.org.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.
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 found no threat indicators on imagemagick.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- imagemagick.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 97/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. imagemagick.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 22 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- imagemagick.org is 26.8 years old, registered on 9/16/1999 through Squarespace Domains II LLC. 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 imagemagick.org as clean.
- No. imagemagick.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- imagemagick.org resolves to an IP operated by Comcast Cable Communications, LLC in US (usage type: Fixed Line ISP). 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.
- Yes. imagemagick.org sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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