
Several organizations offer free online tools for looking up a potentially malicious website. Some of these tools provide historical information; others examine the URL in real time to identify threats:
- AbuseIPDB: Provides reputation data about the IP address or hostname
 - Auth0 Signals: Checks IP address reputation; supports API
 - BrightCloud URL/IP Lookup: Presents historical reputation data about the website
 - CheckPhish: Checks whether the URL is a fraudulent site
 - Cloudflare Radar: Provides many details about the system
 - CyberGordon: Look up the website (and other observables) across several services
 - Desenmascara.me: Flags websites suspected of selling counterfeit products
 - Email Blocklist Checker: Checks the domain name or IP address against email blocklists (email address required, opts into marketing).
 - FileScan.io: Examines the URL in real time
 - FortiGuard lookup: Displays the URL's history and category
 - Google Safe Browsing: Look up the website's current status
 - hashdd: Provides historical data about IPs, URLs, etc.
 - IBM X-Force Exchange: Provides historical data about IPs, URLs, etc.
 - IPQualityScore: Presents a risk ranking for the IP address
 - Joe Sandbox URL Analyzer: Examines the URL in real time
 - Ironscales Fake Login URL Scanner: Examines the URL for signs of phishing
 - Is It Hacked: Performs several checks in real time and consults some blacklists
 - IsItPhishing: Assesses the specified URL in real time
 - Kaspersky Threat Intel Portal: Looks up the IP, URL, or domain in a blacklist
 - Norton Safe Web: Presents historical reputation data about the website
 - Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering: Looks up the URL in a blacklist
 - PhishTank: Looks up the URL in its database of known phishing websites
 - PolySwarm: Uses several services to examine the website or look up the URL
 - Malware Domain List: Looks up recently-reported malicious websites
 - MalwareURL: Looks up the URL in its historical list of malicious websites
 - McAfee Site Lookup: Checks URL reputation in various McAfee lists
 - MxToolbox: Queries multiple reputational sources for information about the IP or domain
 - Open Threat Exchange: Presents diverse threat intelligence data from AlienVault
 - PassiveTotal: Presents passive DNS and other threat intelligence data
 - Pulsedive: Presents historical data and queries for additional information
 - Quttera ThreatSign: Scans the specified URL for the presence of malware
 - Scamadviser: Checks whether the website is likely a shopping scam
 - SecurityTrails: Provides current and historical domain or system data
 - Silent Push: Presents diverse threat intelligence data
 - Sucuri SiteCheck: Scans the URL for malware in real time and looks it up in several blacklists
 - Talos Reputation Lookup: Presents historical reputation data about the website
 - Trend Micro Site Safety Center: Presents historical reputation data about the website
 - ThreatSTOP Check IoC: Looks up the UP or domain in a blacklist (requires your email address)
 - urlscan.io: Examines the URL in real time and displays the requests it issues to render the page
 - URLVoid and IPVoid: Looks up the URL or IP across several services
 - VirusTotal: Looks up the URL in several databases of malicious sites
 - ThreatMiner: Presents diverse threat intelligence data
 - URLscore.ai: Examines the URL in real time
 - WebPulse Site Review: Looks up the website in BlueCoat's database
 - Zscaler Zulu URL Risk Analyzer: Examines the URL using real-time and historical techniques
 - zveloLive: Looks up the website in its database of categories
 
Any on-line tools that should be on this list, but are missing? Let me know. My other lists of on-line security resources outline Automated Malware Analysis Services and Blocklists of Suspected Malicious IPs and URLs.
 Updated July 6, 2024