Verdict
signal.org appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Official site content for Signal — an established nonprofit private messaging app emphasizing end-to-end encryption, open-source development, and donations. Contains downloads, help, blog, and contact info. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 1 report; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 25 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing had no flags for this domain; its hosting IP carries AbuseIPDB reports below the confidence level TrustSniffer treats as a flag.
Full analysis
Overview
signal.org is the public website for Signal, an independent nonprofit private-messaging project. It presents end-to-end encrypted messaging, open-source development, app downloads, help resources, community and developer information, and voluntary donation support, with the apparent purpose of distributing and sustaining a privacy-focused communications service.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage consistently presents Signal as a private messaging application and describes the Signal Protocol, open-source development, downloads, support, and donations without phishing, impersonation, deceptive investment, or other fraud indicators. External reputation checks recorded no malicious or suspicious detections and no blacklist or phishing hit. A strong public footprint and long registration history further support provenance consistent with an established site, although the real-world operator identity remains likely rather than independently verified.
- The homepage is identified as an organization page for Signal and contains no detected brand-impersonation, phishing, or other red-flag indicators.
- External reputation results recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and no blacklist or phishing hit; the site is ranked 2359 and is within the top 1 million domains.
- The domain was registered 2001-04-15; age 25.34 years; expiration 2028-04-15; registrar MarkMonitor Inc.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available pages describe a nonprofit software and communications project supported by grants and voluntary donations, rather than a financial, investment, or payment service requiring the type of licensing associated with regulated financial activity. No financial-service license claim or registration number is identified in the supplied site content; for this business model, that is a transparency item rather than evidence of fraud. Public contact, help, developer, careers, blog, and donation pathways provide a coherent organizational presentation. A separate broker-reputation dataset returned no match, which is contextual support but not a legal or regulatory determination. The evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website, while operator identity is not independently verified.
- The homepage describes an independent nonprofit model supported by grants and donations and provides links to downloads, help, developers, careers, blog, and donations.
- The site's transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by WE1, valid to 2026-10-05T17:16:42+00:00.
- The website is served from AS13335, CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- No match was returned in the supplied broker-reputation dataset.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an organization should independently confirm the operator identity through an authoritative corporate or nonprofit source, review the applicable donation terms and refund arrangements, and confirm that any downloaded application originates from the official distribution channel. Contact details should also be cross-checked through an independent route rather than relying solely on a page-linked communication path.
- The homepage provides the primary product description and official download entry point.
- The site's help and contact resources provide channels that can be compared with independently obtained organizational information.
- The donation pathway is presented as voluntary nonprofit support and should be checked against the applicable payment and refund information before a contribution.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk. Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website, with no observed scam, phishing, impersonation, or identity-conflict signals. The positive classification supports normal website use, subject to ordinary independent checks because operator identity is not independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare’s CDN and WAF, and all observed addresses were CDN edge servers rather than an identified origin server. This reduces direct exposure of the origin and is a mitigating infrastructure signal, not proof of organizational legitimacy. One abuse report was associated with a shared Cloudflare provider address; it was whitelisted, had zero confidence, and was discounted because it applied to shared infrastructure rather than being attributed specifically to this site.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and standard use are proportionate to the assessed posture; before entering credentials or making payments, ordinary independent checks of operator identity, terms, and payment protections should be completed.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-12 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 1 report on hosting IP 2606:4700::6812:b2f (Cloudflare, Inc., Content Delivery Network), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 73/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 74% |
- Trusted social count=1
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of signal.org.
- The request stayed on signal.org. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under MarkMonitor Inc.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-04-15. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | MarkMonitor Inc. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700::6812:b2f |
| Name servers | casey.ns.cloudflare.com, zita.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-05 |
| Domain age | 25.34 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-04-15 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 1 report | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about signal.org at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.