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Never indexed. Never shared. Always private.
URLScanner.online is the private alternative to VirusTotal trusted by security professionals, SOC analysts, and legal teams. Scan any URL, domain, or IP for malware, phishing, and threats — with DNS records, SSL certificates, HTTP headers, WHOIS data, and page screenshots. Your submissions are never shared, never indexed, never public.
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Why switch
URLScanner.online vs VirusTotal
VirusTotal is a powerful threat intelligence platform — but every free-tier URL you submit becomes permanently searchable by other users and shared with antivirus vendors. URLScanner.online gives you the same depth of analysis with zero exposure.
The core difference: When you scan a sensitive internal URL, a client's domain, or a confidential link on VirusTotal, that submission is indexed and can be found by anyone with a paid account. On URLScanner.online, your input is never stored publicly, never indexed, and never shared.
URLScanner.onlineFeature comparison based on VirusTotal's publicly documented free-tier behavior as of 2025. VirusTotal is a trademark of Google LLC.
How it works
Scan any URL for threats in seconds
Our free online URL scanner checks links against multiple threat databases and performs deep security analysis — results in under 15 seconds.
Enter any URL, domain or IP
Paste the link you want to check into the scanner. We accept full URLs, bare domains, and IP addresses. Our URL scanner validates and normalizes the input automatically.
Real-time security analysis
The scanner runs 8 parallel security checks: DNS resolution, SSL certificate analysis, HTTP header inspection, WHOIS lookup, threat intelligence queries against malware and phishing databases, and multi-viewport screenshots.
Get your detailed security report
Receive a comprehensive report with a safety score from 0-100, a clear threat verdict, and full breakdown of every security check. Know instantly whether a link is safe, suspicious, or malicious.
URL Scanning Tools
Comprehensive URL security scanning
Our URL scanner combines multiple security checks into one fast, free scan — from malware detection to SSL analysis.
Malware & Virus Detection
Scan URLs against URLhaus, Spamhaus, SURBL, and Google Safe Browsing databases. Detect malware, viruses, and known threat indicators in real time.
SSL Certificate Analysis
Full certificate chain inspection, TLS protocol version checks, HSTS validation, cipher suite analysis, and certificate expiry monitoring.
DNS Record Lookup
Complete DNS enumeration — A, AAAA, MX, TXT, NS, SOA, and CAA records. Identify the full DNS infrastructure behind any domain.
Phishing Detection
Multi-layered phishing analysis using DNS blocklists, domain age checking, SSL validation, and threat intelligence to identify fraudulent websites.
WHOIS Domain Lookup
Domain registration data including registrar, creation date, domain age, and expiry. Young domains are flagged as higher risk for cyber security threats.
Website Safety Score
Weighted security score from 0-100 based on SSL, headers, threats, and domain age. Clear verdict: safe, suspicious, or malicious.
HTTP Header Inspection
Evaluate critical security headers — HSTS, Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, and CORS configuration.
Website Screenshots
Safe visual capture at desktop, tablet, and mobile viewports. Preview any website without visiting it directly — see what the page looks like before you click.
Instant Free Scans
Most scans complete in under 15 seconds. Free scans with no account required. Real-time terminal output shows every step of the analysis as it happens.
Pricing
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Every paid plan includes both URLScanner and FileScanner. No contracts. Cancel any time.
Any paid plan gives you access to both tools — filescanner.online included, shared quota, no extra charge.
No card. No install. Just start.
- 3 scans/day — both toolsunified pool
- Browser extension
- —PDF scan reports
- —API access
- —Team seats
Scan when you need it. No subscription.
- 250 scan creditsnever expire
- PDF scan reports
- API access
- Browser extension
- —Team seats
The solo analyst's daily driver.
first month — then €29/mo
- 100 scans/dayshared pool
- PDF scan reports
- API access
- Browser extension
- —Team seats
5 Solo seats for less than the price of 4.
- 500 scans/dayshared pool
- 5 seats€145 standalone
- PDF scan reports
- API access
- Browser extension
- Slack/Discord bot alerts
The full stack for teams who can't afford an incident.
- 2000 scans/dayshared pool
- 20 seats€580 standalone
- PDF scan reports
- API access
- Browser extension
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- Onboarding call
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions about URL scanning
Everything you need to know about scanning URLs for malware, phishing, and cyber security threats.
A URL scanner is an online security tool that analyzes websites and links for potential threats. URLScanner.online performs 8 different security checks on any URL, domain, or IP address — including DNS resolution, SSL certificate analysis, HTTP security header inspection, WHOIS domain registration lookup, threat intelligence queries, and multi-viewport screenshots. All scans are performed server-side so your device is never exposed to potentially malicious content.
Simply paste the URL into the search bar above and click Scan. URLScanner.online will automatically check the URL against multiple malware databases including URLhaus, Spamhaus DNS blocklists, SURBL, and Google Safe Browsing. You'll receive a detailed security report with a safety score out of 100 and a clear verdict within seconds.
Yes, URLScanner.online is free. Guests get 1 scan without signing up; free accounts get 3 scans per day. Each scan includes full threat detection, SSL certificate analysis, DNS records, HTTP header inspection, WHOIS data, technology detection, and multi-device screenshots.
Yes. The scanner uses multiple layers of phishing detection: DNS blocklist queries (Spamhaus, SURBL), Google Safe Browsing transparency reports, URLhaus malware database lookups, SSL certificate validation, domain age analysis via WHOIS, and HTTP security header inspection. Newly registered domains with missing security headers and blocklist matches are flagged as potential phishing sites.
Absolutely. All URL scanning is performed on our servers — your browser never connects to the target URL directly. We use isolated headless browsers with sandboxed environments and secure DNS resolution. You can safely scan any suspicious link without exposing your device, network, or personal information to potential threats.
URLScanner.online runs 8 security modules: (1) DNS Resolution — A, AAAA, MX, TXT, NS, SOA, CAA records, (2) SSL/TLS Certificate Analysis — certificate chain, protocol version, cipher suites, expiry, (3) HTTP Security Headers — HSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, CORS, (4) WHOIS Lookup — domain registration, registrar, creation date, domain age, (5) Threat Detection — URLhaus, Spamhaus, SURBL, Google Safe Browsing, (6) Visual Capture — screenshots at desktop, tablet, and mobile viewports, (7) Security Scoring — weighted score from 0-100, (8) Verdict Classification — safe, suspicious, or malicious.
URLScanner.online combines multiple scanning engines into a single real-time analysis. Unlike basic link checkers that only query one database, we run parallel checks across DNS, SSL, HTTP headers, WHOIS, and multiple threat intelligence sources simultaneously. You get a comprehensive security report with a clear safety score — not just a pass/fail result. The real-time terminal output shows every step of the analysis as it happens.
The URL scanner detects malware distribution sites, phishing pages, domains on DNS blocklists (Spamhaus, SURBL), URLs flagged by Google Safe Browsing, sites with invalid or expired SSL certificates, domains using outdated TLS protocols, websites missing critical security headers (HSTS, CSP), newly registered domains commonly used in attacks, and suspicious redirect chains.