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Should I use URLhaus (abuse.ch)?

🤲🏼 NEW | abuse.ch Community Hub! Earn recognition 🏅 for the malware intelligence you share, climb the leaderboards 📈, and connect with like-minded contributors who share your hunting focus 🤝. - urlhaus.abuse.ch

· 1 day ago

URLhaus is a free community-run feed of malware URLs for teams that consume threat intel; evidence is thin, so confidence is low. Skip it if you want a supported commercial product with reviews and an SLA.

Confidence

Low. Based on 2 usable public sources; most crawled pages returned 404 errors.

Ratings

  • Value for money
  • Ease of useNo evidence in reviewed sources
  • Feature depthNo evidence in reviewed sources
  • Support quality
  • Security postureNo evidence in reviewed sources

Pricing

Free

Guess: Community feed

ModelNot disclosed
Monthly feesNot disclosed
HardwareNot disclosed
Free tierYes

Best for

  • SOC and threat intel teams
  • Malware researchers sharing findings
  • Automation of firewall blocklists

Not for

  • Buyers wanting vendor support and SLAs
  • Teams without tooling to process raw feeds
  • Non-technical buyers expecting a polished product
  • Compliance-driven shops needing vetted vendors

Gotchas - check before you buy

medium

Guess: community project support is best-effort. No SLAs for enterprise consumers.

medium

Guess: raw feeds need filtering and tooling before they help. Expect no onboarding.

low

Security page returned a 404 during the crawl. Likely a site quirk, not a breach.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Community hub gives recognition and leaderboards for shared malware intelligence.
  • Guess: free public malware URL feeds with API access.
  • Guess: run by, a long-standing non-commercial malware tracking project.

Cons

  • Guess: community-run, so no vendor support, SLAs, or onboarding.
  • No third-party user reviews found in reviewed sources.

Sources & method

- 2 sources - No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

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Key stats

  • Value for money: 5/5

    Rating

  • Free

    Starting price

  • 2

    Sources

  • Analyzed

  • Value for money: 5/5. Guess: free public feed, so value is high
  • Ease of use. No evidence in reviewed sources
  • Feature depth. No evidence in reviewed sources
  • Support quality: 2/5. Guess: community-run project, no vendor support
  • Security posture. No evidence in reviewed sources
  • Free Starting price Community-run abuse.ch project
  • Yes Free tier Public malware URL feeds
  • 0 User reviews found No third-party reviews in reviewed sources

Pricing

Guess: Community feed

Free

  • Public malware URL feed
  • API access for automation

Security

No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

What users say

Reviewed sources contain no user reviews of URLhaus.

Full analysis

Based on 2 usable public sources; most crawled pages returned 404 errors.

Free community malware URL feed from abuse.ch. Great raw intel for SOC teams, not a supported product. Evidence is thin.

Methodology

Based on 2 usable public sources; most crawled pages returned 404 errors.

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Sources

  1. URLhausurlhaus.abuse.ch
    official
  2. Product security pageurlhaus.abuse.ch
    security

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