No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is wireshark.org legit or a scam?
Official Wireshark network protocol analyzer homepage with clean scans and confirmed legitimacy from independent sources.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page presents itself as the official site for Wireshark, a well-known open-source network analysis tool, with sections for downloads, documentation, community, and certifications. Our antivirus network returned zero flags and the hosting IP shows no abuse reports. Browser blocklists are clean and SSL is valid. Evidence from our research confirms it matches the official domain listed on Wikipedia and carries positive mentions on independent review sites with zero scam reports. The combination of long-standing reputation signals and absence of any red flags gives high confidence this is the genuine site.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for wireshark.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- - Official homepage for Wireshark network protocol analyzer software (wireshark.org).
- - Wikipedia lists www.wireshark.org as the official website.
- - Scamadviser explicitly states the site is 'very likely not a scam but legit and reliable.'
- - Multiple review sites (Capterra, G2, TechRadar) describe it as a trusted, free open-source tool with positive user feedback on features and safety.
- - Site maintains a dedicated security advisories page and FAQ addressing common concerns like paid copies.
- - No evidence of the domain itself being associated with scams; unrelated malware references (e.g., fake 'Wireshark Antivirus') predate 2010.
Our research found no scam reports or complaints. Two positive mentions on independent sites describe wireshark.org as legitimate and safe to use, with confirmation it is the official domain for the Wireshark project.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (2025-10-08).
- Links to 7 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://wireshark.org/
- 2301https://wireshark.org/
- 3200https://www.wireshark.org/cross-domain
Server Reputation
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 wireshark.org and not a lookalike like w-ireshark.org.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on wireshark.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- wireshark.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 92/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. wireshark.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 53 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report wireshark.org as clean.
- No. wireshark.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- wireshark.org resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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