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Listed in Google Safe Browsing

Google Safe Browsing (GSB) is Google's flagship anti-abuse blocklist used by Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Android. A listing means Google's automated and manual review systems classified the domain as malware, phishing, or unwanted software. GSB has very low false-positive rates, so a listing is a high-confidence malicious indicator.

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What it detects01

What does 'Listed in Google Safe Browsing' mean?

Google Safe Browsing (GSB) is Google's flagship anti-abuse blocklist used by Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Android. A listing means Google's automated and manual review systems classified the domain as malware, phishing, or unwanted software. GSB has very low false-positive rates, so a listing is a high-confidence malicious indicator.

Why it matters02

How reliable is a Google Safe Browsing listing?

Google Safe Browsing is one of the most trusted malicious-domain feeds in the industry. Listings are produced by Google's large-scale crawlers, sandbox detonation, machine-learning classifiers, and manual analyst review, and they directly drive browser-level warnings for billions of users. False positives are very rare because of the user-facing impact, so a GSB hit should be treated as high-confidence evidence of phishing, malware, or unwanted-software activity.

Often paired with:block_domain
Evidence shape

What Listed in Google Safe Browsing looks like in the response

A realistic shape of the entry the engine appends to the risk_signals array when this signal fires. Evidence keys are subgroup-default; per-signal overrides documented in the API reference.

json
{
  "slug": "google_safe_browsing",
  "name": "Listed in Google Safe Browsing",
  "group": "threat_intelligence_feed",
  "subgroup": "malware_association",
  "direction": "malicious",
  "evidence": {
    "sources_referencing": 12,
    "malware_families": [
      "emotet",
      "qakbot"
    ],
    "first_reference_days_ago": 11,
    "confidence": 0.91
  }
}
See in API reference
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