Is pastebin.com safe?

The scan of pastebin.com on 30 Jul 2026 reached no verdict either way (score -7). Too little was captured to judge it, which is an unknown rather than a pass.

How was pastebin.com checked?

A static pass resolved DNS, captured TLS and headers and followed the redirect chain, and where the standard tier allows, a headless browser rendered the page and recorded every request. Egress is SSRF-locked. Signatures that matched only page text are weighted far below one that matched a served file, because a page documenting malware matches the same rules.

pastebin.com - URL scan, 30 Jul 2026

MalwareAnalyzer by Cyble scanned pastebin.com and returned a unknown verdict (score -7). The page resolved to 172.66.171.73. The domain was registered 8730 days ago through NameCheap, Inc.. 5 domains and 3 IPs were contacted, over 27 HTTP requests. This is a point-in-time observation from 30 Jul 2026; the page may have changed since.

Scan result

Verdict: unknown (score -7) · Confidence 13%
Scanned URL: https://pastebin.com/p9Dkzfpq
Domain: pastebin.com · IP: 172.66.171.73
Server: cloudflare
Page title: Pastebin.com - Not Found (#404)
HTTP status: 404 · text/html; charset=UTF-8
Registrar: NameCheap, Inc. · domain age 8730 days · created 2002-09-03
TLS issuer: C=US, O=Google Trust Services, CN=WE1 · valid to Oct 11 21: · subject CN=pastebin.com
HTTP requests captured: 27 · cookies set: 3 · outgoing links: 49
Scan tier: standard · observed 2026-07-30 05:28:51 UTC

Why this verdict

Valid TLS, no impersonation or off-origin credential post
Hosted on abuse-prone infrastructure (paste-site)

Observed indicators

pastebin.com
www.googletagmanager.com
facebook.com
twitter.com
www.google-analytics.com
172.66.171.73
142.250.195.232
142.251.42.110
https://pastebin.com/p9Dkzfpq
https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-S72LBY47R8
https://pastebin.com/favicon.ico
https://pastebin.com/assets/c80611c4/css/bootstrap.min.css
https://pastebin.com/assets/12083553/dist/bootstrap-tagsinput.css
https://pastebin.com/themes/pastebin/css/vendors.bundle.css?30d6ece6979ee0cf5531
https://pastebin.com/themes/pastebin/css/app.bundle.css?30d6ece6979ee0cf5531
https://pastebin.com/
https://pastebin.com/doc_api
https://pastebin.com/tools
https://pastebin.com/faq
https://pastebin.com/login

Other scans of pastebin.com (7)

This host has been scanned before. Each scan is a separate observation, so a verdict here does not carry over to the others.

23 Aug 2026 - unknown · https://pastebin.com/download.php?i=DDD0rAXN
23 Aug 2026 - unknown · https://pastebin.com/
22 Aug 2026 - unknown · https://pastebin.com/
22 Aug 2026 - unknown · https://pastebin.com/
21 Aug 2026 - unknown · https://pastebin.com/raw/nvPqZVcV
21 Aug 2026 - unknown · https://pastebin.com/raw/hkytwPyt
20 Aug 2026 - unknown · https://pastebin.com/

Questions about pastebin.com

Is pastebin.com safe?: The scan of pastebin.com on 30 Jul 2026 reached no verdict either way (score -7). Too little was captured to judge it, which is an unknown rather than a pass.
How was pastebin.com checked?: A static pass resolved DNS, captured TLS and headers and followed the redirect chain, and where the standard tier allows, a headless browser rendered the page and recorded every request. Egress is SSRF-locked. Signatures that matched only page text are weighted far below one that matched a served file, because a page documenting malware matches the same rules.

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