What Is mediafire.com, and Is It Safe?

Last Updated on February 10, 2025 by Mathew Diekhake

MediaFire (mediafire.com) is a file hosting and sharing website where you can upload your files to your own account and then keep them for personal use or choose to share them with others over the internet. It is an advanced cloud storage site that not only allows you to store files in the cloud but use various features to share them with others. MediaFire is one of the only cloud storage sites to offer links that can be shared and downloaded directly without the need of opening a webpage on the cloud storage site beforehand. This not only saves users a click but can conceal which cloud storage service a webmaster is using.

ALTERNATIVES

Similar sites to mediafire.com include mega.nz, gofile.io, sendspace.com, dropbox.com, 4shared.com, 1fichier.com, filefactory.com, filedropper.com, and imgur.com.

DESCRIPTION

When I analyzed mediafire.com, I recognized it as one of the leading file-hosting/sharing websites in the world. It’s one that I have used a lot to download files from in the past. It’s also my favorite file-sharing site to download a file from because I think they do it the best. I can say from experience that mediafire.com is a legitimate site. 2/10/2025

HISTORY

As of January 2025, mediafire.com has 166.6 million monthly views (35.24M, March 2024), according to Similar Web. The Wayback Machine estimates that mediafire.com was founded on April 16, 2000. The Internet Archive has saved mediafire.com 34,233 times between April 16, 2000, and April 30, 2024.

Is mediafire.com Safe?

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

I checked mediafire.com on Sucuri, and it returned as a medium security risk.

Sucuri says mediafire.com is a medium security risk because it encountered a 403 Forbidden (warning-400) site issue on the following URL:

https://www.mediafire.com/help/

Security hardening flaws:

• Missing Strict-Transport-Security security header. Affected pages:
  https://mediafire.zendesk.com/hc/en-us
  https://www.mediafire.com/ for Google’s UA
  https://www.mediafire.com/help/submit_a_ticket.php

I then ran a parasite scan with Unmask Parasites on mediafire.com, and it is suspicious.

Unmask Parasites cites a suspicious inline script found:

(function(){var js = "window['__CF$cv$params']={r:'7c410b5c48da1070',m:'owhygsRjPscn.egva4sjA05Leu.NpxV3D1e.pMO4Nto-16835...

I also checked mediafire.com on VirusTotal, and it is clean.

In conclusion, Sucuri says mediafire.com is a medium security risk because of a 403 Forbidden error. Unmask Parasites says mediafire.com is clean of parasites. VirusTotal and Sucuri say mediafire.com isn’t malicious or blacklisted. OVERALL GRADE: Relatively Safe.

Links and Profiles

Website: mediafire.com