What Is MagnetDL?

MagnetDL (magnetdl.com) is a torrent search engine. As of July 2023, the site magnetdl.com has an estimated 8.6 million monthly views, according to SimilarWeb. The Wayback Machine estimates magnetdl.com was founded on April 15, 2012. The Internet Archie has saved the domain magnetdl.com 1,842 times between April 15, 2012 and September 3, 2023.

Is MagnetDL Safe?

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

I checked the site magnetdl.com on the online malware scanner Sucuri and it returned as a medium security risk. You can see the same here: https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/magnetdl.com

magnetdl.com Sucuri results

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Sucuri says the site magnetdl.com is a medium security risk because the scan failed on the URL http://magnetdl.com/ due to a 403 Forbidden error.

Some hardening improvements can be made:

  • Missing security header to prevent Content Type sniffing.
  • 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

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 magnetdl.com and it says the page is suspicious. You can see the same here: https://unmask.sucuri.net/security-report/?page=magnetdl.com

Unmask Parasites cites 1 suspicious inline script:

(function(){var js = "window['__CF$cv$params']={r:'801b5e9778be1407',t:'MTY5Mzg4NDM3My45NDAwMDA='};_cpo=document.createEl...

I also checked the site magnetdl.com on VirusTotal and it is flagged as malicious by CRDF and Seclookup. You can see the same here: VirusTotal scan for the site magnetdl.com.

magnetdl.com VirusTotal results

In conclusion, Sucuri says the site magnetdl.com is a medium security risk due to a 403 Forbidden error. Unmask Parasites says the site magnetdl.com has 1 suspicious inline script. VirusTotal and Sucuri say the domain magnetdl.com is flagged as malicious by CRDF and Seclookup. Overall grade: Suspicious.