proxypal.net
Category: Anonymizers
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Description of proxypal.net
proxypal.net appears to be a web-based proxy service branded as "ProxyPal." Based on the page title, meta description, and on-page text, the site offers users a browser-accessible tool intended to help them browse anonymously and reach content that may be blocked by local network rules or geographic restrictions. The homepage also references common proxy use cases and presents itself as a free web proxy service.
The site is categorized by multiple web-classification providers under anonymizers, proxy avoidance, web proxy, and technology. Its interface appears relatively simple, with a URL input field for browsing through the proxy and supporting explanatory text about how web proxies work. The page also shows advertising and references infrastructure commonly used for content delivery and analytics.
Based on the available domain data, the domain has been registered for over a year and uses Cloudflare-hosted infrastructure with a valid TLS certificate. No clear information about a formal company operator is visible in the provided scan data, so the operating entity cannot be confirmed from this snapshot alone.
Safety Assessment for proxypal.net
This domain shows a mixed risk profile at the time of this scan. Multiple security engines flagged the site, with several classifying it as malicious or suspicious, while other checks were clean. The website's stated purpose as a free web proxy/anonymizer is also relevant context, because proxy-avoidance services are commonly restricted by schools, workplaces, and some security products even when they are not directly hosting malware. That means some detections may reflect the site's function rather than confirmed harmful payloads, but the multi-engine flags still warrant caution.
The malware scan did not identify flagged files, and major threat-database checks for phishing and malware distribution were clean at the time of this scan. However, one blacklist provider associated with the scan data did list the domain, and several page resources were marked with a generic heuristic label rather than a named malware family. Those generic heuristic findings are lower-confidence signals on their own, but they add to the overall caution when combined with the multi-engine detections.
Because this is a proxy service, visitors should also consider privacy and traffic-handling risks inherent to routing browsing activity through a third-party intermediary. Following a manual review by the PCRisk team, the published trust score has been adjusted to reflect additional context. Based on these findings, this website may pose potential risks to visitors.
Technical Description
The site uses a valid SSL/TLS certificate issued by a mainstream certificate authority, with expiry shown in late 2026. It is hosted behind Cloudflare infrastructure, with Cloudflare nameservers and a Cloudflare-served IP address. The web server is identified as Cloudflare, and the observed hosting location is Toronto, Canada, although CDN-based services can abstract the origin server's actual location.
DNSSEC appears to be unsigned, which is not uncommon but means DNS responses do not benefit from DNSSEC validation. No major phishing or malware blocklist hits were shown in the provided data, but the domain did receive several security-engine detections and one blacklist listing tied to the scan results. The page also loads third-party resources for mapping, analytics, and advertising.
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