No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
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.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview

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.
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.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsClean, 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
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.
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.
- 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.
- 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."
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
- Jun 11, 2016Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 10 years old today.
- Jul 13, 2026Latest 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
Security Scans
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.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedThe 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.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://postimg.cc/
- 2301https://postimg.cc/
- 3200https://postimages.org/cross-domain
Server Reputation
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.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
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.
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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