What Is Zippyshare.com?
Zippyshare (zippyshare.com) is a file-sharing website. Zippyshare is free to use for an unlimited number of files up to the size of 500MB each. Zippyshare allows you to upload files without creating a user account, which is unique for file-sharing sites. Zippyshare also offers unlimited bandwidth for downloading files; however, a file is automatically deleted if it hasn’t received any downloads for 30 days.
Zippyshare offers some features few other file-sharing sites do; however, the fact that a file is automatically deleted after 30 days is the drawback. Many files are important for the internet and its people and don’t necessarily get views every 30 days, making it not suitable for many people looking for cloud storage. Nevertheless, its unique package of features will be suitable for some people. Zippyshare can offer free storage space because ads are sponsoring the links.
Website: https://zippyshare.com/
Is Zippyshare.com Safe?
I conducted a series of malware tests to find out if zippyshare.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 zippyshare.com without any issues.
To check this further I ran malware scans with Malwarebytes and Spybot on my computer after browsing the site zippyshare.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the site is clean, I also checked the site zippyshare.com on the online malware scanner Sucuri and it returned with outdated software (Nginx under 1.17.3). You can see the same here: https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/zippyshare.com
Sucuri says the site zippyshare.com doesn’t have any malware; however, it did detect outdated software (Nginx under 1.17.3). Subsequently, Sucuri has graded the site zippyshare.com as a medium security risk.
There are also several TLS recommendations listed below:
Password input field detected on an unencrypted HTTP page. Please use HTTPS protocol to protect login forms:
http://zippyshare.com/404javascript.js
http://zippyshare.com/404testpage4525d2fdcHTTPS mixed content found. Your HTTPS website is referring to an HTTP resource:
http://www10.zippyshare.com/upload on https://zippyshare.com/
http://www69.zippyshare.com/upload on https://zippyshare.com/
http://www95.zippyshare.com/upload on https://zippyshare.com/
However, these TLS recommendations don’t change the overall grade of the scan.
On a positive note, no associated security vendor has blacklisted the site zippyshare.com, meaning they don’t view it as malicious.
I also ran a parasite scan with Unmask Parasites on the site zippyshare.com and it said the page was suspicious. You can see the same here: https://unmask.sucuri.net/security-report/?page=zippyshare.com
Unmask Parasites says it found 1 suspicious inline script listed below:
$(document).ready(function() {
var uploader = new plupload.Uploader({
runtimes: 'html5,flash,html4',
browse_button: 'brow...
Lastly, I ran a malware scan with VirusTotal on the domain zippyshare.com and no security vendor has flagged the domain as malicious. You can see the same here: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/domain/zippyshare.com
In conclusion, the site zippyshare.com runs outdated software (Nginx under 1.17.3) and was graded as a medium security risk by Sucuri. Unmask Parasites also found 1 suspicious script. However, no security vendors associated with Sucuri or VirusTotal have flagged the domain as malicious, though it does have a negative community score.