What Is Vecteezy.com?
Vecteezy (vecteezy.com) is a site for downloading vector art and stock photos. Often you may use Vecteezy art and photos for commercial use. As of February 2023, the site vecteezy.com gets an estimated 14.9 million monthly views. The Wayback Machine estimates vecteezy.com was founded on May 20, 2007. The site vecteezy.com has been crawled consistently since 2010, suggesting its traffic has been relatively steady since then.
Website: https://www.vecteezy.com/
Is Vecteezy Safe?
I conducted a series of malware tests to find out if vecteezy.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 vecteezy.com without any issues.
To check this further I ran malware scans with Malwarebytes and Spybot on my computer after browsing the site vecteezy.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 vecteezy.com on the online malware scanner Sucuri and it returned with no issues. You can see the same here: https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/vecteezy.com
Sucuri says it didn’t detect any malware on the site vecteezy.com during its scan. Sucuri also says that the site vecteezy.com is not blacklisted by any of the 9 blacklists it checked.
Some hardening improvements can be made such as solving the following missing security headers:
Missing security header to prevent Content Type sniffing. Affected pages:
https://www.vecteezy.com/ for Google’s UA
https://www.vecteezy.com/free-photosMissing 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
I also ran a parasite scan with Unmask Parasites on the site vecteezy.com and it says the page seems to be suspicious. You can see the same here: https://unmask.sucuri.net/security-report/?page=vecteezy.com
Unmask Parasites says it found 1 suspicious inline script and 1 hidden external link:
(function(){var js = "window['__CF$cv$params']={r:'7a5a2a431a962270',m:'zl5Ugp4ZAMSCl9kWnZyZC56KWWQBdfyZ.oh7HoBJziM-16784...
Hidden link – https://g.vecteezy.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
Lastly, I ran a malware scan with VirusTotal on the domain vecteezy.com and no security vendor has flagged the domain as malicious. You can see the same here: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/domain/vecteezy.com
In conclusion, Sucuri didn’t find any malware on the site vecteezy.com and it isn’t blacklisted by any security vendors. Unmask Parasites did find 1 hidden external link and 1 suspicious inline script. And no security vendors on VirusTotal have flagged the site vecteezy.com as malicious.