Critical risk detected
Linkvertise redirect domain with confirmed malicious URLs, forced malware extensions, and phishing activity across multiple sandbox reports. Our security stack flagged multiple threat indicators on this website. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Is link-target.net legit or a scam?
Linkvertise redirect domain with confirmed malicious URLs, forced malware extensions, and phishing activity across multiple sandbox reports.
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
MT Intelligence
Our antivirus network flagged this domain as malicious, and multiple independent sandbox analyses (ANY.RUN, Joe Sandbox, Tria.ge) confirmed malicious activity and phishing targeting on specific link-target.net URLs. The domain is directly tied to Linkvertise, a service known for forcing users to download malware extensions and enable suspicious notifications. User reports on independent review sites describe unsafe redirects and adware injection. While the domain itself is 4 years old and hosted on legitimate infrastructure (Cloudflare), the consistent pattern of malicious URLs, sandbox detections, and user complaints about malware distribution outweighs the age and infrastructure legitimacy. The lack of any business registration or contact information further suggests this is a service designed to obscure its operators.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for link-target.net, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain first observed ~2021-10-06 (approx 4 years old), hosted on Cloudflare (AS13335), IP 104.21.72.113.
- Directly associated with Linkvertise (linkvertise.com); many URLs redirect from or to link-target.net for their ad-walled content.
- High traffic (millions of visits/month per Semrush/SimilarWeb), popular in gaming, Roblox scripts, scene packs, and key systems.
- Sandbox analyses (ANY.RUN, Joe Sandbox, Tria.ge) flagged specific link-target.net URLs as malicious activity or phishing/suspicious.
- User reports and MyWOT comments on Linkvertise describe forced malware extensions, adware, notifications, and unsafe redirects.
- Reddit threads question safety for downloads (e.g., scenepacks); no major business registration or company info located.
- Scamadviser rates similar subdomain as reasonable trust but notes it is a subsite, low visitors on some checks, and shared registrar with spammers.
- ANY.RUNopen
"Online sandbox report for https://link-target.net/412299/mx5du, verdict: Malicious activity."
- Joe Sandboxopen
"Automated Malware Analysis Report for http://link-target.net ... Classification label: sus23.phis.win"
- Tria.geopen
"hxxps:// link-target[.]net/968641 /ubisoft-accs - Malware Config. Targets."
- MyWOT (for linkvertise.com)open
"They force you to download a malware extension, enable suspicious notifications... this site does not moderate viruses and fraud"
Sandbox analyses from ANY.RUN, Joe Sandbox, and Tria.ge all flagged specific link-target.net URLs as hosting malicious activity, phishing attempts, and suspicious redirects. User reports on independent review sites describe the Linkvertise service forcing users to download malware extensions, enabling suspicious notifications, and injecting adware. Reddit discussions question the safety of downloads routed through link-target.net. One independent aggregator assigned a 'reasonable' trust score, but this conflicts with the consistent pattern of malicious detections and user complaints across multiple sources. The domain is directly operated by Linkvertise, a known ad-walled redirect service with no legitimate business registration or transparency.
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
- 1302http://link-target.net/
- 2200https://linkvertise.com/?o=sharingcross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 scam-type patterns detected
0 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.
- AI analyst tagged this as malware / drive-by / cracked app.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
0 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.
- AI analyst tagged this as malware / drive-by / cracked app.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
Malware distribution detected
Signals suggest this page may deliver malicious files or exploit the browser.
- Do not interact with link-target.net
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- If you downloaded or ran a file from here
Disconnect the device from the internet, run a full scan with a reputable antivirus (Malwarebytes, ESET, Bitdefender), and consider a second-opinion scanner. Change passwords on any account you used from the device afterwards — ideally from a different device.
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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 flags link-target.net as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — link-target.net scored 21/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. link-target.net presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 45 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- link-target.net is 4.7 years old, registered on 10/6/2021 through Cronon GmbH. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 1 out of 91 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged link-target.net as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. link-target.net is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- link-target.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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