Is msft-ssp-emea.adnxs.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate Microsoft/Xandr advertising infrastructure subdomain with 16-year parent domain history, zero malware detections, and active business registration.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
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MT Intelligence
msft-ssp-emea.adnxs.com is a subdomain of adnxs.com, the advertising network acquired by Microsoft and now operated as part of Xandr. The parent domain was registered in 2008 to AppNexus Inc in New York and remains active with MarkMonitor as registrar. Our antivirus network shows zero detections across 92 engines, and the hosting IP carries zero abuse reports. The SSL certificate is valid and issued by DigiCert. Independent security scanners confirm no malicious content or blacklisting. User complaints about adnxs.com relate to unwanted advertising cookies or pop-ups from the ad network itself — a normal friction point for ad-tech infrastructure — not malware or fraud. Similar subdomains (msft-ssp-useast, msft-ssp-apac) follow the same pattern and are tied to the same legitimate advertising infrastructure.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for msft-ssp-emea.adnxs.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- msft-ssp-emea.adnxs.com is a subdomain of adnxs.com, operated by AppNexus (acquired by Microsoft, now part of Xandr) for supply-side platform (SSP) advertising, specifically Microsoft-related inventory in EMEA region.
- adnxs.com registered in 2008 to AppNexus Inc, New York, US; WHOIS shows active status with MarkMonitor registrar.
- Frequently appears in user hosts files, adblock lists, and Reddit/GitHub discussions as a domain to block due to ads in Outlook app and other Microsoft services.
- Security scanners (Quttera, VirusTotal, ScamDoc) report no malicious content, no blacklisting, low risk, and high legitimate traffic.
- User complaints about adnxs.com generally relate to unwanted advertising cookies or pop-ups from the ad network, not malware or scams; Bitdefender and Microsoft forums confirm it is a legitimate tracker.
- urlscan.io and Hybrid Analysis show normal HTTP behavior with no malicious classification.
- Similar subdomains (msft-ssp-useast.adnxs.com, msft-ssp-apac.adnxs.com) also tied to AppNexus/Microsoft advertising infrastructure.
adnxs.com registered 2008-05-27 (expires 2027), owned by AppNexus Inc (acquired by Microsoft/Xandr), New York address
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for msft-ssp-emea.adnxs.com and found zero scam reports or complaints. Three independent security aggregators confirmed no malicious content and low risk. The parent domain adnxs.com is documented as a legitimate advertising network owned by AppNexus (acquired by Microsoft, now Xandr), registered in 2008 and active in good standing. User discussions on Reddit and GitHub mention adnxs.com as an ad-tech domain to block if you wish to avoid advertising cookies or pop-ups, but no reports of malware, fraud, or scams.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
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 msft-ssp-emea.adnxs.com and not a lookalike like m-sft-ssp-emea.adnxs.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
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 msft-ssp-emea.adnxs.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- msft-ssp-emea.adnxs.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 90/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. msft-ssp-emea.adnxs.com presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · GeoTrust TLS ECC CA G1, expiring in 136 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report msft-ssp-emea.adnxs.com as clean.
- No. msft-ssp-emea.adnxs.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- msft-ssp-emea.adnxs.com resolves to an IP operated by FRA1 IB Net - Public VIPs in DE (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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 12, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around msft-ssp-emea.adnxs.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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