Is torrentleech.org safe?
http://torrentleech.org/
Checked on
How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (61 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
TorrentLeech is a long-running private BitTorrent tracker whose login page carries an affiliate seedbox link; the risk is account and copyright exposure, not a payment scam.
The captured page is a TorrentLeech login screen for a private tracker that has been registered for roughly 21 years and is described in a tracker review as active for over 19 years. Our checks found no malware, no phishing pattern and no payment flow on the page; the only commercial element is a link to a third-party seedbox provider. Two adverse items temper the picture: a security vendor's automated checker labels the site a possible scam, and a GitHub issue reports a torrent client double-counting download statistics toward this tracker. Neither shows money being taken from visitors, so the score sits in the moderate band rather than high risk.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan1 antivirus engine flagged this URLGridinsoftSaved antivirus result from Oct 23, 2026Where 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 62/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 4 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "we scanned torrentleech.org for several indicators and we think the website may be a scam. Exercise extreme caution when"-10 pts
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "qBittorrent is reporting double download stats to certain trackers, (TorrentLeech)"-10 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.
- MinorNo direct contact email was found on the captured login page.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable domain is about 7,980 days old and a tracker review describes it as active for over 19 years.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 82 to 62 and split those 20 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
The captured page is a TorrentLeech login screen for a private tracker that has been registered for roughly 21 years and is described in a tracker review as active for over 19 years. Our checks found no malware, no phishing pattern and no payment flow on the page; the only commercial element is a link to a third-party seedbox provider. Two adverse items temper the picture: a security vendor's automated checker labels the site a possible scam, and a GitHub issue reports a torrent client double-counting download statistics toward this tracker. Neither shows money being taken from visitors, so the score sits in the moderate band rather than high risk.
A members-only tracker, not a shop or a payment page
The page captured is titled as a login for TorrentLeech.org, so visitors are asked to sign in to a members-only BitTorrent tracker rather than to buy anything. The domain has been registered for about 7,980 days, and a tracker review describes it as consistently active for over 19 years while other trackers came and went.
Nothing on the reviewed page asks for card details, crypto or identity documents, and no operator name, registration number or contact address is shown on it. The absence of a contact email on the login screen is a transparency gap, not evidence of fraud.
The seedbox link, the vendor flag and the connection checks
The page links out to Seedit4.me, a third-party seedbox service, which is a cross-site commercial promotion rather than a checkout on this domain. A visitor who follows it is dealing with a separate provider under that provider's own terms, so the tracker's reputation does not transfer to it.
The browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection. A saved antivirus observation records one engine, Gridinsoft, marking the URL suspicious; that result is stale and comes from a stored observation rather than a fresh submission, so it is a caution to verify rather than a confirmed detection.
An automated website checker states it scanned the domain and thinks it may be a scam. That kind of automated verdict is generated from domain and hosting signals and is not a customer complaint, so it does not by itself establish that anyone lost money here.
Why the score is 62
2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "we scanned torrentleech.org for several indicators and we think the website may be a scam. Exercise extreme caution when".
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from October 23, 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 - Clean
- 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 - 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
- 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
- alphaMountain.aiPeer-to-Peer (P2P)
- BitDefendertravel
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerpeer-to-peer file sharing
- Googledownloads_and_sharing
- Sophosreference
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
Login :: TorrentLeech.org
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Login :: TorrentLeech.org
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
Login :: TorrentLeech.org
- Meta description
TorrentLeech
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Login :: TorrentLeech.org
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 61 antivirus results.
What independent research found
3 external findings were 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
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Login Portal
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The registrable domain is about 7,980 days old and a tracker review describes it as active for over 19 years.
- 02The browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
- 031 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.
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What a member actually risks
A visitor who registers and downloads is subject to the tracker's own account rules, and the concrete documented problem is statistical: a GitHub issue reports that the qBittorrent client double-reports download statistics to certain trackers including TorrentLeech. On a ratio-based tracker, inflated download counts can affect a member's standing.
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 the login page lists no direct contact email, a member who needs to dispute a statistic or a suspension has no obvious support channel visible on that page.
Treat TorrentLeech as a private tracker with real account-rule and copyright exposure rather than a financial scam: use a unique password, expect ratio enforcement, and check your client's reported statistics if you use qBittorrent. If you follow the Seedit4.me link, evaluate that provider separately, and do not send money or identity documents to any address that is not clearly tied to a verifiable operator.
Web research findings
Independent findings for torrentleech.org, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- Torrentinvites.netopen
"Its long-standing presence over 19 years has seen many other trackers come and go, but TL has remained consistently active."
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
- Domaintorrentleech.org
- Redirects towww.torrentleech.org
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesbilling.seedit4.me · truevpnreviews.net
Domain Timeline
- Dec 31, 2004Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 21 years old when this review was saved.
- Nov 7, 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
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Certificate issued for torrentleech.org.
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
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://torrentleech.org/
- 2206https://www.torrentleech.org/
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.
2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "we scanned torrentleech.org for several indicators and we think the website may be a scam. Exercise extreme caution when" · 2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "qBittorrent is reporting double download stats to certain trackers, (TorrentLeech)"
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 23, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 7, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 7, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 7, 2026 |
| Independent research | 3 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 7, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 23, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 7, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 7, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 7, 2026
- Independent research
- Result3 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 7, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is torrentleech.org a scam or is it safe?
Is torrentleech.org safe to use?
Has torrentleech.org been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is torrentleech.org on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the torrentleech.org domain?
Does torrentleech.org have a valid SSL certificate?
Where is torrentleech.org hosted?
Is torrentleech.org a well-known website?
How often is the torrentleech.org report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
TorrentLeech is a long-running private BitTorrent tracker whose login page carries an affiliate seedbox link; the risk is account and copyright exposure, not a payment scam.
The captured page is a TorrentLeech login screen for a private tracker that has been registered for roughly 21 years and is described in a tracker review as active for over 19 years. Our checks found no malware, no phishing pattern and no payment flow on the page; the only commercial element is a link to a third-party seedbox provider. Two adverse items temper the picture: a security vendor's automated checker labels the site a possible scam, and a GitHub issue reports a torrent client double-counting download statistics toward this tracker. Neither shows money being taken from visitors, so the score sits in the moderate band rather than high risk.
09 · Community
Community
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