What Is Torrends?

Torrends (torrends.to) is a torrent site that combines the most trafficked torrent sites and private trackers in a torrent multi-search. As of July 2023, the site torrends.to has an estimated 1.3 million monthly views, according to SimilarWeb. The Wayback Machine estimates torrends.to was founded on November 6, 2020. The Internet Archive has saved the domain torrends.to 380 times between November 6, 2020 and September 3, 2023.

Is Torrends Safe?

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

I checked the site torrends.to on the online malware scanner Sucuri and it returned with no issues. You can see the same here: https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/torrends.to

torrends.to Sucuri results

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Sucuri says the site torrends.to doesn’t have malware or any important security issues and is a low security risk.

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://torrends.to/404javascript.js
    https://torrends.to/404testpage4525d2fdc
  • Missing security header to prevent Content Type sniffing. Affected pages:
    https://torrends.to/404javascript.js
    https://torrends.to/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

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 torrends.to and it says the page is clean. You can see the same here: https://unmask.sucuri.net/security-report/?page=torrends.to

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

torrends.to VirusTotal results

In conclusion, Sucuri says the site torrends.to doesn’t have malware. Unmask Parasites says the site torrends.to is clean of parasites. VirusTotal says the domain torrends.to is flagged as malicious by CRDF and Seclookup. Overall grade: Suspicious.