What Is File-upload.com?

File-upload.com is a file hosting and sharing site. You can use file-upload.com as free cloud storage to host your files. As of February 2023, the site file-upload.com gets an estimated 12.8 million monthly views. The Wayback Machine estimates that file-upload.com was founded on February 18, 2001.

Links and Profiles

Website: https://www.file-upload.com/

Is File-upload.com Safe?

I ran malware tests to find out if file-upload.com is safe and legit. Here are the results:

I checked the site file-upload.com on the online malware scanner Sucuri and it returned with no issues. You can see the same here: Sucuri scan for the site file-upload.com.

File-upload.com Sucuri results

Sucuri says the site file-upload.com doesn’t have any malware and is an overall low security risk. Sucuri also says that none of its associated security vendors have flagged the domain file-upload.com as malicious. A website firewall has also already been installed on the site file-upload.com.

Some hardening improvements can be made to the security headers:

  • Missing security header for ClickJacking Protection. Alternatively, you can use Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors 'none'. Affected pages:
    https://www.file-upload.com/404javascript.js
    https://www.file-upload.com/404testpage4525d2fdc
  • Missing security header to prevent Content Type sniffing. Affected pages:
    https://www.file-upload.com/404javascript.js
    https://www.file-upload.com/404testpage4525d2fdc
  • Missing Strict-Transport-Security security header.
  • 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

And more than one SPF record was detected which prevents the spam protection from working effectively.

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 file-upload.com and it said the page is suspicious. You can see the same here: Unmask Parasites scan for the site file-upload.com.

Unmask Parasites says it found 1 suspicious inline script:

var _gaq=_gaq||[];_gaq.push(["_setAccount","UA-42931250-7"]),_gaq.push(["_trackPageview"]),function(){var t=document.crea...

To try to confirm that the site is clean, I checked the domain file-upload.com on VirusTotal and 1 out of 84 security vendors have flagged the domain as malicious. You can see the same here: VirusTotal scan for the site file-upload.com.

File-upload.com VirusTotal results

In conclusion, the site file-upload.com doesn’t have malware and is an overall low security risk according to Sucuri. Unmask Parasites says it did find one suspicious inline script. And no security vendor associated with Sucuri or VirusTotal has flagged the domain file-upload.com as malicious. Overall, the site file-upload.com looks very safe except for the 1 suspicious inline script found by Unmask Parasites which should be further investigated.

References

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2. Wayback Machine –