Anti-Malware · head-to-head
MalwareBazaar vs NoPhishy
MalwareBazaar, part of the abuse.ch threat-intel suite, is a community platform for submitting, tagging, and bulk-downloading real malware samples by hash, signature family, or YARA rule via its JSON API. A live POST to the real mb-api.abuse.ch host without an Auth-Key was rejected, and a bogus key returned {"query_status": "unknown_auth_key"}, confirming abuse.ch's mandatory Auth-Key authentication over HTTPS with no Access-Control-Allow-Origin header on either response. Use is free under abuse.ch's fair-use policy, with a separate paid commercial API tier for organizations needing higher volume or an SLA.
NoPhishy (listed on RapidAPI as Exerra Phishing Check) queries a maintained database of 299,000+ known phishing domains, refreshed roughly every two hours, to flag whether a submitted URL or domain is a known phishing attempt. A live GET through the real RapidAPI gateway host with an invalid x-rapidapi-key returned a 403 rejection rather than a network-level block, reconfirming API-key auth over HTTPS, and Access-Control-Allow-Origin echoed the request's Origin on that same call. Like other RapidAPI-distributed APIs it offers a free Basic plan alongside paid tiers for higher request volumes.
| MalwareBazaar | NoPhishy | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | API Key | API Key |
| Pricing | freemium | freemium |
| Formats | JSON | JSON |
| CORS | no | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
NoPhishy supports CORS, while MalwareBazaar doesn't — pick NoPhishy for direct browser calls.