No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is pagead2.googlesyndication.com legit or a scam?
Official Google ad server subdomain with 23-year domain history and zero malicious detections.
Analysis Summary
AI Security Analysis
The URL belongs to googlesyndication.com, a long-established Google LLC domain used for serving advertisements. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned completely clean results with no flags. The domain was registered over 23 years ago through MarkMonitor and resolves to legitimate Google infrastructure with a valid SSL certificate. No scam reports, complaints, or clone indicators appear in our research. These signals together confirm the site is a trusted first-party Google service rather than any form of threat.
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 pagead2.googlesyndication.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Subdomain of googlesyndication.com, owned by Google LLC per WHOIS
- Used to serve Google ads (e.g., pagead/show_ads.js, GPT.js)
- Domain age exceeds 23 years (registered ~2003)
- Frequently referenced in Pi-hole/ad-blocker discussions and iOS Screen Time reports as Google ad tracker
- Sandbox analyses (Joe Sandbox, ANY.RUN) return safe/no malicious indicators
- Resolves to Google LLC IPs (AS15169)
- No scam, malware, or fraud reports identified across searches
googlesyndication.com owned by Google LLC, registrar MarkMonitor Inc.
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 pagead2.googlesyndication.com and not a lookalike like p-agead2.googlesyndication.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.
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 pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- pagead2.googlesyndication.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 95/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. pagead2.googlesyndication.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WR2, expiring in 59 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- pagead2.googlesyndication.com is 23.4 years old, registered on 1/21/2003 through MarkMonitor Inc.. 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 pagead2.googlesyndication.com as clean.
- No. pagead2.googlesyndication.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- pagead2.googlesyndication.com resolves to an IP operated by Google LLC 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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