SAFE

No threats detected

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

Security Review

Is postimg.cc legit or a scam?

This looks safe to use.

Established 10-year-old image hosting site with clean security scans and legitimate business model.

Cross-checked against 9 independent sources — none raised a concern
postimg.ccScanned 1h ago
0/100
Trust score
0 = danger · 100 = safe
SAFE
Score breakdown
Heuristics 99·MT 82
Screenshot of postimg.ccSee the live page ↓
Positive signals (5)
Antivirus clearNot on major blacklistsDomain is 10 years oldEncrypted connectionClean server reputation
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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
10 years old
Registered Jun 11, 2016

Website Preview

Screenshot of postimg.cc
LIVE RENDER
postimg.cc

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.

Visual analysis

We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.

5
/ 100
Low visual risk

Visual red flags detected in the screenshot

The page displays a professional and functional interface for the Postimages hosting service with no visual indicators of scam or deceptive patterns.

Visual risk5/100

What our vision model saw

5 signals

Clean, professional layout for an image hosting service

Functional navigation menu with links to plugins and apps

Clear pricing structure with free and premium tiers

Standard 'Choose images' upload button and drag-and-drop instructions

No visible urgency tactics, fake trust badges, or intrusive pop-ups

Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
Analysis
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust82/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The domain postimg.cc has been registered since 2016 and ranks among the top 100k sites globally. Our antivirus network returned zero detections and the hosting IP carries no abuse reports. The page itself shows a functional upload interface with clear free and premium pricing tiers. Two older Reddit threads mention notification prompts and occasional browser warnings, yet these appear tied to third-party image abuse rather than the service operator. Positive mentions on an independent review aggregator and forum communities describe it as a working tool for forum and blog image embedding. The combination of age, clean infrastructure signals, and real user adoption outweighs the scattered complaints.
Risk Factors
3
  • No contact email, phone, or physical address listed on the page.
  • Two older Reddit reports mention aggressive notification prompts and browser warnings.
  • Service is sometimes abused by third parties to host phishing or malware images.
Positive Signals
5
  • Domain registered 10.1 years ago with consistent operation since 2016.
  • Zero detections across 92 malware engines and clean browser blocklist status.
  • Hosting IP carries zero abuse reports and a 0/100 abuse score.
  • Professional layout with transparent free and premium pricing tiers.
  • Global traffic rank inside the top 100k sites.
The full analysis

Page Content

The site presents itself as a free image hosting platform with upload options via file picker, URL, or drag-and-drop. Pricing tiers are clearly listed: free accounts support up to 32 MB files with ad-supported hosting, while premium removes ads and raises limits. No login forms, countdown timers, or urgency language appear on the landing page.

Infrastructure

The domain resolves to IP 45.43.142.100 with an abuse score of 0/100 and zero prior abuse reports. SSL is valid from Let's Encrypt with 59 days remaining. Two cross-domain redirects occur during loading, both within the postimages.org family. No malicious scripts or external domains outside the service's own ecosystem were detected.

Domain History

WHOIS records show registration on 2016-06-11 through NameCheap with privacy protection disabled. The domain is 10.1 years old and uses the .cc TLD. No business registration was located in public records, which is common for smaller service operators.

Web Reputation

Our research found two older Reddit threads reporting notification prompts and occasional browser warnings. Two positive mentions appear on an independent review aggregator and BladeForums describing the service as functional for forum image hosting. Twelve complaints were noted, mostly related to third-party misuse of the platform rather than operator misconduct.

What this means for you

The site operates as a legitimate image hosting service that has been online for a decade. Occasional abuse by third parties is expected with any public upload platform, but the core service itself shows no malicious indicators.

AI Recommendation
The site is safe for uploading and hosting images. Use it the same way you would any public image host and avoid uploading sensitive personal photos.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

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

Business registration
No public record found
Could not match the site to a registered company — common for small sites.
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 scam reports · 12 complaints · 2 positive
Key findings
5 headline facts from open-web research
  • Postimg.cc is a long-standing image hosting service and a primary alias for postimages.org.
  • The site is widely used for embedding images in forums (BBCode) and blogs.
  • Security researchers note that while the service is legitimate, it is frequently abused by third parties to host phishing images or malware-related content.
  • Historical reports from 2018 indicate issues with aggressive notification requests and browser-crashing scripts.
  • Users have reported intermittent phishing warnings from browsers like Microsoft Edge/Internet Explorer when accessing the domain.
Scam reports (2)
Direct quotes from public scam databases, forums, and news.
  • Reddit (r/waterfox)open

    "postimg.cc (PostImage.org, postimages.org): fake doorhanger undermining blockage of new requests asking to allow notifications; crashing tabs; crashing browsers"

  • Reddit (r/antivirus)open

    "Suddenly today Explorer is saying "Warning! Suspected Phishing" when I try to upload a new image."

Positive reviews (2)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • Trustpilotopen

    "PostImage is a legitimate image hosting service. That said, like any other hosting service, it can be used to store dangerous content."

  • BladeForumsopen

    "I use Postimages.org / Postimg.cc too. Quick resizing, options for how long you want the image displayed, quick code picking."

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

Our research located two Reddit threads reporting notification prompts and browser warnings on postimg.cc. Positive mentions appear on an independent review aggregator and BladeForums describing the service as a working image hosting tool. Twelve complaints were noted, primarily related to third-party misuse rather than the operator itself.

Domain Timeline

  1. Jun 11, 2016
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 10 years old today.

  2. Jul 13, 2026
    Latest security review — Reviewed as safe

    This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.

postimg.cc has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.

Threat Detection

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious58Harmless92Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not queried
ESET-NOD32
Not queried
Avira
Not queried
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Clean
Emsisoft
Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.

Reputation Sources

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

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

Technical Details

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.

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 profiles0
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.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age10 years old
RegistrarNameCheap, Inc.
RegisteredJun 11, 2016
ExpiresJun 11, 2028
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YE1
ExpiresSep 10, 2026 (59d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingPetr Stepanets
Server locationFR
Web servernginx
PopularityTop 100k worldwide

Redirect Chain

Hops
2
Cross-domain
Yes
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://postimg.cc/
  • 2301https://postimg.cc/
  • 3200https://postimages.org/cross-domain

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPPetr Stepanets
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

What to do

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 postimg.cc and not a lookalike like p-ostimg.cc.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.

    Open

Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·postimg.cc
SAFE

Postimg.cc is a long-established free image hosting service. The domain is 10.1 years old with clean scans across our malware engines and no browser blocklist hits. Occasional third-party abuse reports exist but do not indicate the service itself is malicious.

The site is safe for uploading and hosting images. Use it the same way you would any public image host and avoid uploading sensitive personal photos.

AV engines
92
Domain age
10 yrs
Flagged
0
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Safety FAQ

Common questions, 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 postimg.cc, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, it ranks among the world's most-visited sites, and the domain is 10.1 years old, registered on June 11, 2016 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
  • postimg.cc passed our automated checks with a trust score of 88/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
  • Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from postimg.cc), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from postimg.cc is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
  • No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report postimg.cc as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
  • No — postimg.cc is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
  • postimg.cc is 10.1 years old, registered on June 11, 2016 through NameCheap, Inc.. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
  • Yes — postimg.cc presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE1, valid for another 59 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
  • postimg.cc resolves to an IP operated by Petr Stepanets in FR (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
  • Yes — postimg.cc ranks in the global top 100,000 most-visited sites, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. Genuine popularity doesn't automatically make a site safe, but throwaway scam domains almost never reach this level of traffic, so it's a meaningful point in the site's favour.
  • This report is a record of the scan run on July 13, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about postimg.cc has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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