No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is linkprotect.cudasvc.com legit or a scam?
Barracuda Networks email link protection service that rewrites URLs for scanning, confirmed legitimate with 16-year domain history.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The domain linkprotect.cudasvc.com belongs to Barracuda Networks and serves as their email gateway link protection feature. Our antivirus network recorded only a single flag while browser blocklists remained clean and the hosting IP shows zero abuse reports. The domain is over 16 years old with valid SSL and active business registration tied directly to Barracuda. Evidence from our research shows forum users often mistake these rewritten links for threats, but they resolve as the legitimate Barracuda filter. The scanned page returned a standard 403 error with no scam indicators or forms present.
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.
No scam visual patterns detected
The screenshot shows a standard HTTP 403 access-denied error page with no scam indicators present.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for linkprotect.cudasvc.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain linkprotect.cudasvc.com is a Barracuda Networks service subdomain (cudasvc.com associated with Barracuda).
- Used by Barracuda Email Gateway Defense / Link Protection to rewrite and scan URLs in emails in real-time.
- Official Barracuda documentation: 'Understanding Link Protection' describes the feature and URL format.
- Multiple forum posts (Malwarebytes, Tom's Hardware, Reddit) show users mistaking rewritten links for malware; resolved as Barracuda filter.
- Scamadviser check labels linkprotect.cudasvc.com as legit and safe.
- Listed in Mimecast threat report as one of several email security services whose rewritten links have been abused in phishing campaigns.
- Domain age ~16 years; WHOIS points to Barracuda/CSC Corporate Domains.
- SCDIT Blogopen
"These are safe to click on. ... It turned out to be the new Barracuda spam filter the client had put in was blocking the “username” and “password” being sent through the email."
Subdomain/service of Barracuda Networks (barracudanetworks.com / cudasvc.com)
Our research found no scam reports or complaints. One review from SCDIT Blog confirms the domain belongs to Barracuda's spam filter and is safe to click. Multiple forum discussions note users mistaking these links for malware, but all cases resolved as the legitimate Barracuda service. The domain is listed as an official Barracuda subdomain with active business registration in the United States.
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
- 1302https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3A%2F%2Favalon-com-sa.myportfolio.com%2F&c=E%2C1%2CAweJP3BFXBg2nPmKBZ6ebb4HvuWLhUsxwpMdShbYcFWJTWvPptg2fPntFB2IZBeTxTEr8yIhRjmkzJAskihCoGPveqyWzaonnfc-k_Mf8fFyph0Klw%2C%2C&typo=1
- 2404https://avalon-com-sa.myportfolio.com/cross-domain
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 linkprotect.cudasvc.com and not a lookalike like l-inkprotect.cudasvc.com.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 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 linkprotect.cudasvc.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- linkprotect.cudasvc.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 70/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. linkprotect.cudasvc.com presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01, expiring in 227 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- linkprotect.cudasvc.com is 16.1 years old, registered on 5/17/2010 through CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged linkprotect.cudasvc.com as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. linkprotect.cudasvc.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- linkprotect.cudasvc.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Data Services Northern Virginia in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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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