Is plainraw.com safe?
http://plainraw.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (65 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Anonymous free text-hosting service whose domain is flagged as malicious and phishing by 14 security engines
PlainRaw is a free, no-registration service that stores pasted text and gives it back at a plain-text URL, with a 'Create Snippet' box for up to 30,000 characters. The site itself is simple and its Terms forbid malware and phishing content, but the domain carries 14 malicious and 2 suspicious detections across 93 engines, with 12 independent antivirus families reporting adverse results. Because anyone can publish anonymously on the same domain, the reputation of the host is what a visitor inherits, and that reputation is currently bad.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan16 antivirus engines flagged this URLADMINUSLabs, alphaMountain.ai, ArcSight Threat Intelligence, BitDefender, Forcepoint ThreatSeekerWhere 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 38/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 1 finding pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Decisive12 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the domain.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor).
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- Ignore anyone offering to recover your money
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01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
PlainRaw is a free, no-registration service that stores pasted text and gives it back at a plain-text URL, with a 'Create Snippet' box for up to 30,000 characters. The site itself is simple and its Terms forbid malware and phishing content, but the domain carries 14 malicious and 2 suspicious detections across 93 engines, with 12 independent antivirus families reporting adverse results. Because anyone can publish anonymously on the same domain, the reputation of the host is what a visitor inherits, and that reputation is currently bad.
A paste-and-share text box with no accounts
The homepage offers a single working area: paste or type text into a 30,000-character box and press 'Create Snippet' to get a URL that returns the text as plain text. The site states there is no registration, no login and no subscription, and that the same URL can be opened on a phone to view the raw text.
The only operator detail on the pages reviewed is a contact address, howard [at] plainraw [dot] com, given in the Terms. No company, registration number or postal address is published, and the domain is 316 days old, so there is no long operating history to weigh against the security findings.
Clean connection, but a domain with a bad reputation
The technical basics are fine: the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning. Those results mean no block was raised at the time of the check, not that the domain is trustworthy.
The reputation data points the other way. The multi-engine malware scan records 14 malicious and 2 suspicious detections across 93 engines, and 12 independent antivirus families returned an adverse result, including flags for phishing and malware. That is the strongest single fact in this review and it is why the score sits in the high-risk band rather than near the middle.
The site's own Terms prohibit malware, phishing links and malicious code and say such content is deleted immediately and without notice. That policy is a statement of intent, not a control a visitor can verify, and it does not explain away the vendor detections on the domain itself.
Why the score is 38
12 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
16/ 93
detectionsFresh result
16 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 14
- Suspicious
- 2
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| ADMINUSLabsMalicious | malicious |
| alphaMountain.aiMalicious | malicious |
| ArcSight Threat IntelligenceMalicious | malware |
| BitDefenderMalicious | phishing |
| Forcepoint ThreatSeekerMalicious | malicious |
| FortinetMalicious | malware |
| G-DataMalicious | phishing |
| KasperskyMalicious | malware |
| LionicMalicious | malicious |
| SeclookupMalicious | malicious |
| SOCRadarMalicious | phishing |
| SophosMalicious | phishing |
| VIPREMalicious | malware |
| WebrootMalicious | malicious |
| ESETSuspicious | suspicious |
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- ADMINUSLabs - Malicious
- alphaMountain.ai - Malicious
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - malware - Malicious
- BitDefender - phishing - Malicious
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Malicious
- Fortinet - malware - Malicious
- G-Data - phishing - Malicious
- Kaspersky - malware - Malicious
- Lionic - Malicious
- Seclookup - Malicious
- SOCRadar - phishing - Malicious
- Sophos - phishing - Malicious
- VIPRE - malware - Malicious
- Webroot - Malicious
- ESET - Suspicious
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Clean
- 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
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- 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
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Clean
- 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
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiMalicious
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekermalicious web sites. information technology
- Sophosphishing and fraud
- WebrootPhishing and Other Frauds
- BitDefendercomputersandsoftware
- Googletechnology
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
Visual context from the captured page
Free Text Hosting
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Free Text Hosting
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
Free Text Hosting — No Signup, Direct Raw URL | PlainRaw
- Meta description
Free text hosting with no signup. Paste your text, get a direct raw URL for browsers and curl, and keep a separate edit link to update it later.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Terms/termsRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Free Text Hosting — No Signup, Direct Raw URL | PlainRaw
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 65 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
Phishing & Impersonation
Service and business model
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 0114 malicious and 2 suspicious detections across 93 engines on the domain.
- 0212 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
- 03The browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the domain.
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What a visitor actually takes on by using the service
A visitor pastes text and receives a plain-text URL on a domain that security vendors currently classify as malicious or phishing. Anyone who opens that link, or any other link on the same host, is trusting a domain with that reputation, and a link to plainraw.com may itself be blocked or warned about by mail filters and security tools.
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.
Because publishing requires no account, the same domain is open to anyone, and the site's own Terms acknowledge that phishing and malicious content can appear and be removed after the fact. The detections are consistent with a host being used for content its operators say they do not want, but the review did not establish which pages triggered them.
Do not paste anything private, and do not open plainraw.com links sent by someone else, while the domain carries 14 malicious and 2 suspicious detections. If you need to share text quickly, use a paste service with a clean reputation and a stated retention policy; if you must use this one, treat every link on it as untrusted and check it with a link scanner first.
Web research findings
Independent findings for plainraw.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for plainraw.com. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.
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.
Infrastructure map
- Domainplainraw.com
- Redirects towww.plainraw.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesfonts.googleapis.com · fonts.gstatic.com
Domain Timeline
- Dec 24, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 10 months old when this review was saved.
- Nov 5, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan 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
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
Certificate issued for plainraw.com.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
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://plainraw.com/
- 2200https://www.plainraw.com/
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
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
maliciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
12 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 16 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Nov 5, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 5, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 5, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 5, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 5, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result16 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 5, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 5, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 5, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 5, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 5, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is plainraw.com a scam or a legit website?
Is plainraw.com safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on plainraw.com — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from plainraw.com?
Did plainraw.com steal my password or personal information?
How do I report plainraw.com?
plainraw.com looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has plainraw.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is plainraw.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the plainraw.com domain?
Does plainraw.com have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the plainraw.com report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Anonymous free text-hosting service whose domain is flagged as malicious and phishing by 14 security engines
PlainRaw is a free, no-registration service that stores pasted text and gives it back at a plain-text URL, with a 'Create Snippet' box for up to 30,000 characters. The site itself is simple and its Terms forbid malware and phishing content, but the domain carries 14 malicious and 2 suspicious detections across 93 engines, with 12 independent antivirus families reporting adverse results. Because anyone can publish anonymously on the same domain, the reputation of the host is what a visitor inherits, and that reputation is currently bad.
09 · Community
Community
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