Is pdfdrive.webs.nf safe?
http://pdfdrive.webs.nf/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
PDF Drive mirror on webs.nf redirects searches to pdfdrive.pw and carries a suspicious vendor flag
pdfdrive.webs.nf presents itself as a PDF search and download portal, but its search form sends visitor queries to a different domain, pdfdrive.pw, and the site is flagged as suspicious by one antivirus vendor. The parent domain is old, but the subdomain itself has no disclosed operator, no contact email on the captured page, and no independent reputation evidence beyond an independent site-rating service note that it is being iframed elsewhere. This combination of cross-domain redirection, absent transparency, and a stale vendor warning places the site in the Moderate Risk band.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 52/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 5 findings pulled the score down; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateThe site's search form sends visitor queries to pdfdrive.pw, a different host from the one the visitor arrived on.-4 pts
- ModerateOne public warning in public web research: "This website is being iframed by another website"-4 pts
- ModerateThe page contains a link block with the text 'Pegasus download', a high-risk software term.-5 pts
- Moderate1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
- MinorThe captured page contains no direct contact email and does not disclose an operator.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable parent domain webs.nf is 4959 days old, but this does not show how long the subdomain itself has existed.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for this URL.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 65 to 52 and split those 13 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger. Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
pdfdrive.webs.nf presents itself as a PDF search and download portal, but its search form sends visitor queries to a different domain, pdfdrive.pw, and the site is flagged as suspicious by one antivirus vendor. The parent domain is old, but the subdomain itself has no disclosed operator, no contact email on the captured page, and no independent reputation evidence beyond an independent site-rating service note that it is being iframed elsewhere. This combination of cross-domain redirection, absent transparency, and a stale vendor warning places the site in the Moderate Risk band.
Search queries leave the site for pdfdrive.pw
The captured page shows a search form with the placeholder 'Search for books, tutorials, manuals and authors in 74,924,398 files'. That form is the site's main interactive element, and the commercial link graph records that it sends queries to pdfdrive.pw, a different host. A visitor who types a search term is therefore redirected off pdfdrive.webs.nf to a separate domain that is not the one they arrived on.
The site's own branding says 'PDF Drive | Search and download PDF files for free', which matches the well-known PDF Drive name. However, the actual search destination is pdfdrive.pw, not the webs.nf host. This cross-domain handoff means the operator of pdfdrive.webs.nf is not necessarily the party that receives the visitor's query or serves the subsequent results.
Vendor flag, missing contacts, and iframe report
One antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious, according to a saved observation from Gridinsoft. That detection is real but stale, so it should be treated as a caution rather than a current confirmed threat. The browser threat feed returned no warning, and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, so there is no evidence of active malware delivery or a broken certificate on this host.
The captured page contains no direct contact email, and the operator is not disclosed. An independent site-rating service research note says the site is being iframed by another website, which is consistent with a mirror or gateway setup rather than an independently operated service. The registrable parent domain webs.nf is 4959 days old, but that age applies to the parent domain and does not show how long this subdomain has existed.
Why the score is 52
The site's search form sends visitor queries to pdfdrive.pw, a different host from the one the visitor arrived on. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from October 19, 2026 - stale
1 engine flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- BitDefendercomputersandsoftware
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerinformation technology
- Googledownloads_and_sharing
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
PDF Drive | Search and download PDF files for free.
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
PDF Drive | Search and download PDF files for free.
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
PDF Drive - Search and download many books for free.
- Meta description
PDF Drive is your search engine for PDF files. As of today we have 74,979,588 eBooks for you to download for free. No annoying ads, no download limits
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
PDF Drive - Search and download many books for free.
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
1 external finding was saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 6 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
Fake Shop & Commercial Deception
Service and business model
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The site's search form sends visitor queries to pdfdrive.pw, a different host from the one the visitor arrived on.
- 02The page contains a link block with the text 'Pegasus download', a high-risk software term.
- 03The captured page contains no direct contact email and does not disclose an operator.
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What happens when a visitor searches
A visitor who lands on pdfdrive.webs.nf and uses the search box has their query forwarded to pdfdrive.pw. The visitor's interaction is therefore not contained on the original host, and the destination domain is outside the control of the page they arrived on.
If this is a scam, how it works
The evidence-backed path
Each stage below is preserved from the grounded analysis and linked to saved evidence.
The captured page also contains a link block with the text 'Pegasus download'. That phrase is associated with high-risk surveillance software, and its presence on a general PDF search page is an adverse signal about the content the site is willing to surface or link to.
Avoid using the search form on pdfdrive.webs.nf, because it redirects your query to a different domain and the site has no disclosed operator or contact details. If you need PDF search, use a well-known service directly rather than a mirror that hands your query to an unrelated host. Treat the 'Pegasus download' link as a reason not to click through, and do not download files from this page.
Web research findings
Independent findings for pdfdrive.webs.nf, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
- ScamAdviseropen
"This website is being iframed by another website"
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainpdfdrive.webs.nf
- Redirects topdfdrive.webs.nf
- Hosted byI FastNet LTD
- Referencesstackpath.bootstrapcdn.com · fonts.googleapis.com
Domain Timeline
- Apr 1, 2013Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 13 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 30, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No direct contact email found on the captured page.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for pdfdrive.webs.nf.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
- cdnjs
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://pdfdrive.webs.nf/
- 2206https://pdfdrive.webs.nf/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The site's search form sends visitor queries to pdfdrive.pw, a different host from the one the visitor arrived on. · One public warning in public web research: "This website is being iframed by another website"
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 1 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 19, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 30, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 30, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 30, 2026 |
| Independent research | 1 independent finding was saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Oct 30, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 19, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 30, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 30, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 30, 2026
- Independent research
- Result1 independent finding was saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 30, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is pdfdrive.webs.nf a scam or is it safe?
Is pdfdrive.webs.nf safe to use?
Has pdfdrive.webs.nf been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is pdfdrive.webs.nf on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the pdfdrive.webs.nf domain?
Does pdfdrive.webs.nf have a valid SSL certificate?
Where is pdfdrive.webs.nf hosted?
How often is the pdfdrive.webs.nf report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
PDF Drive mirror on webs.nf redirects searches to pdfdrive.pw and carries a suspicious vendor flag
pdfdrive.webs.nf presents itself as a PDF search and download portal, but its search form sends visitor queries to a different domain, pdfdrive.pw, and the site is flagged as suspicious by one antivirus vendor. The parent domain is old, but the subdomain itself has no disclosed operator, no contact email on the captured page, and no independent reputation evidence beyond an independent site-rating service note that it is being iframed elsewhere. This combination of cross-domain redirection, absent transparency, and a stale vendor warning places the site in the Moderate Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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