What Is Katfile.com?
Katfile.com is a file hosting service. It offers download speed with no limits, no queues when downloading files, and downloads of files up to 200 Gb in size. Katfile.com is a paid service and doesn’t use advertisements. As of February 2023, the site katfile.com gets an estimated 19.0 million monthly views. The Wayback Machine estimates katfile.com was founded on September 11, 2013.
Website: https://katfile.com/
Is Katfile.com Safe?
I conducted a series of malware tests to find out if katfile.com is safe and legit. Here are the results:
I installed the Malwarebytes Browser Guard on my Edge browser and was able to browse the site katfile.com without any issues.
To check this further I ran malware scans with Malwarebytes and Spybot on my computer after browsing the site katfile.com and they returned no malware detection. I also ran a system-wide scan with Microsoft Defender and no malware was found.
To confirm that the site is clean, I also checked the site katfile.com on the online malware scanner Sucuri and it returned with no issues. You can see the same here: https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/katfile.com
Sucuri says the site katfile.com doesn’t have malware and is an overall low security risk. Moreover, the site katfile.com is not blacklisted by any of the 9 blacklists checked by Sucuri. The site katfile.com also uses a website firewall already which protects it against hacks/being compromised.
Some hardening improvements can be made such as solving the following missing security headers:
Missing security header for ClickJacking Protection. Alternatively, you can use Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors ‘none’. Affected pages:
https://katfile.com/404javascript.js
https://katfile.com/404testpage4525d2fdcMissing security header to prevent Content Type sniffing. Affected pages:
https://katfile.com/404javascript.js
https://katfile.com/404testpage4525d2fdcMissing Strict-Transport-Security security header. Affected pages:
https://katfile.com/404javascript.js
https://katfile.com/404testpage4525d2fdcMissing 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. Affected pages:
https://katfile.com/404javascript.js
https://katfile.com/404testpage4525d2fdc
However, these missing security headers don’t change the overall grade of the Sucuri scan.
I also ran a parasite scan with Unmask Parasites on the site katfile.com and it says the page seems to be clean. You can see the same here: https://unmask.sucuri.net/security-report/?page=katfile.com
Lastly, I ran a malware scan with VirusTotal on the domain katfile.com and no security vendor has flagged the domain as malicious. You can see the same here: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/domain/katfile.com
In conclusion, the site katfile.com is a low security risk and doesn’t have malware according to Sucuri. Unmask Parasites says the page seems to be clean. And Sucuri and VirusTotal say the site katfile.com is not blacklisted or flagged as malicious by any security vendor.