What Is Demonoid?

Demonoid (demonoid.is) is a torrent site. Demonoid is a BitTorrent tracker and offers a searchable index of torrents. As of July 2023, the site demonoid.is has an estimated 1.3 million monthly views, according to SimilarWeb. The Wayback Machine estimates demonoid.is was founded on November 3, 2019. The Internet Archive has saved the domain demonoid.is 371 times between November 3, 2019 and September 3, 2023.

Is Demonoid Safe?

I analyzed demonoid.is for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam. Here are the results:

I checked the site demonoid.is on the online malware scanner Sucuri and it returned as a low security risk. You can see the same here: Sucuri scan for the site demonoid.is.

demonoid.is Sucuri results

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Sucuri says the site demonoid.is is a low security risk even though it returned a 503 Service Unavailable on the URL https://demonoid.is/top_torrents.php.

Some hardening improvements can be made:

  • Missing security header for ClickJacking Protection. Alternatively, you can use Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors 'none'. Affected pages:
    https://demonoid.is/top_torrents.php
    https://demonoid.is/torrent_upload.php
  • Missing Content-Security-Policy directive. We recommend to add the following CSP directives (you can use default-src if all values are the same): script-src, object-src, base-uri, frame-src

However, these hardening improvements don’t impact the Sucuri grade.

To check this further I ran a parasite scan with Unmask Parasites on the site demonoid.is and it says the page is clean. You can see the same here: Unmask Parasites scan for the site demonoid.is.

I also checked the site demonoid.is on VirusTotal and it is flagged as malicious by 2 security vendors (CRDF and Seclookup). You can see the same here: VirusTotal scan for the site demonoid.is.

demonoid.is VirusTotal results

In conclusion, Sucuri says the site demonoid.is is a low security risk even though it returned a 503 Service Unavailable. Unmask Parasites says the site demonoid.is is clean of parasites. VirusTotal says the domain demonoid.is is flagged as malicious by 2 security vendors (CRDF and Seclookup). Overall grade: Safe.