Suspicious Link Checker: Is This URL Safe to Click?

Before you click a link from a text message, email, or social media DM you weren't expecting, paste it into TrustCan. In a few seconds you'll get a real, evidence-based read on the link — not a guess, and not a false "all clear" just because nothing was found.

Works on any link: a full URL, a bare domain, or an IP address.

• VirusTotal — cross-references dozens of malware and phishing detection engines.
• AbuseIPDB — checks the hosting IP for abuse reports from other security teams.
• Shodan — surfaces open ports and known vulnerabilities on the host.
• Domain age — very new domains are a common (though not definitive) phishing pattern.
• TLS certificate check — flags expired or untrusted certificates.
• Lookalike-domain detection — catches homograph tricks (mixed alphabets that look like Latin letters) and brand-impersonation patterns like "micr0soft-login.com."

• A URL shortener hiding the real destination.
• A domain that's one character off from a brand you trust.
• A redirect chain that bounces through several sites before landing you somewhere unexpected.
• Urgency in the surrounding message pressuring you to click without thinking.

TrustCan reports one of several honest states — from MALICIOUS down to NO KNOWN THREATS. Even a clean-looking result explicitly does not claim the link is proven safe — new phishing links routinely slip past reputation databases in their first hours. If the link matters (a payment page, a login page, a client's request), treat any result other than confirmed-malicious as "proceed carefully," not "all clear."