SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

Security Review

Is moodle.org legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 92/100

Official Moodle LMS community site with 24-year domain history, clean reputation, and verified company backing.

moodle.orgScanned 7d ago
0
Trust score
SAFE
Heuristics 87·MT 95
Category tags
educationsoftware95% MT confidence
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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
Data unavailable
Domain Age
24 years old
Registered Apr 2, 2002
MT Intelligence
Safe
Low likelihood · 95% confidence

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust95/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The site presents itself as the official home of the Moodle open-source learning platform, matching its long-established description and purpose exactly. Its domain is over 24 years old with no abuse reports on the hosting IP and clean blocklist status. Independent reviews describe it as a leading open-source LMS, and the associated Australian company Moodle Pty Ltd is registered and active. No scam reports or complaints appear in our research, and the page is not a clone of any other site. The single flagged scam-family match appears to be a false positive given the overwhelming legitimacy signals.
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Page Content

The page is the official Moodle.org community hub with documentation, forums, downloads, and links to related Moodle services. It contains no login forms, countdowns, or aggressive contact requests.

Infrastructure

Valid SSL certificate issued by Google Trust Services, hosted on an IP with zero abuse reports. The site loads several legitimate external domains tied to Moodle's own ecosystem.

Domain History

Domain registered 8823 days ago through GoDaddy with no privacy protection, confirming long-term public ownership since the project's early days.

Web Reputation

Zero scam reports or complaints found. Positive reviews on independent education-software sites and confirmed active business registration in Australia support its legitimacy.

Positive Signals
5
  • Domain is 24 years old with continuous history matching the Moodle project timeline.
  • Associated company Moodle Pty Ltd is registered and active in Australia.
  • No scam reports or complaints found across searched sources.
  • Positive reviews on independent education software review sites.
  • Clean IP reputation and no blocklist hits.
AI Recommendation
This is the legitimate official site for the Moodle project. You can safely browse, download, and participate in the community.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

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moodle.org

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Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for moodle.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Domain age
24 yrs
Registered Apr 2002
Business registration
Active · Australia
Site traces back to an actively registered business.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
2 positive
Key findings
7 headline facts from open-web research
  • - Domain moodle.org is the official community site for the open-source Moodle LMS project (page title/description match official description)
  • - Domain age 8823 days (~24 years); project founded 2001 by Martin Dougiamas
  • - No scam reports or phishing complaints directly targeting moodle.org found in searches
  • - Moodle Pty Ltd (Australia) is the associated company; moodle.com is the commercial site
  • - User forums on moodle.org discuss spam/fake logins on self-hosted installations, not the .org site itself
  • - Positive reviews on SoftwareAdvice (4.3/5 from 3k+ reviews) and eLearningIndustry describe it as powerful open-source LMS
  • - Registered Moodle sites stats show 148k+ active sites worldwide (stats.moodle.org)
Positive reviews (2)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • SoftwareAdviceopen

    "Moodle is the gold standard for open-source learning management systems."

  • eLearningIndustryopen

    "Moodle is a veritable and excellent LMS with a cloud and mobile friendly platform."

Business registration
Status: active · Australia

Moodle Pty Ltd (company behind Moodle project); moodle.org is community site

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

Our research found no scam reports or complaints about moodle.org. Two positive reviews were located on independent education-software sites, and the Australian company Moodle Pty Ltd behind the project is confirmed as registered and active. The domain matches the official Moodle open-source project exactly.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

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.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles4
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No phone number listed on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Scam family match: Tech-Support Scam.
  • Links to 8 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age24 years old
RegistrarGoDaddy.com, LLC
RegisteredApr 2, 2002
ExpiresApr 2, 2028
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerGoogle Trust Services · WE1
ExpiresAug 8, 2026 (70d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingCloudflare, Inc.
Server locationUS
Web servercloudflare
Platform / CMSWordPress

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://moodle.org/
  • 2200https://moodle.org/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPCloudflare, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Scam-Type Likelihood

1 scam-type patterns detected
Scam-Type Likelihood

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.

Top match: Tech Support Scam
Tech Support Scam
High likelihood
0/100
  • Classic tech-support scare copy found (fake Microsoft/Apple alert, remote-access instructions).
  • Primary scraped category: fake tech-support page.

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 moodle.org and not a lookalike like m-oodle.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.

  • Discuss this site on the forum

    If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.

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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
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AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

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 moodle.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.

Final Verdict

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Trust / 100
Final Verdict·moodle.org
SAFE

Moodle.org is the official community site for the open-source Moodle learning management system. Our analysis finds it legitimate with a 24-year-old domain, active company registration, and positive independent reviews. You can safely visit and use the site.

This is the legitimate official site for the Moodle project. You can safely browse, download, and participate in the community.

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Net signals
0
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