# Moonlight SmartScan

> Moonlight SmartScan is a real-time threat intelligence & analysis tool that securely checks URLs for safety

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/moonlight-smartscan](https://chrome-stats.com/d/moonlight-smartscan)

## Overview

- **ID:** `moonlight-smartscan`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** thevill
- **Category:** privacy-security,alerts-updates,tabs
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 1.0.1
- **Last updated:** 2025-11-30
- **First published:** 2025-11-27
- **Size:** 51 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/moonlight-smartscan/)

## Description

Moonlight SmartScan is a browser extension that enhances user safety by checking the URLs of visited webpages against trusted threat intelligence sources, including Phishing DB, URLhaus, VirusTotal, and Google Safe Browsing. It displays real-time safety verdicts in a popup and alerts users to potentially malicious URLs via notifications, helping protect against malware, phishing, and other online threats.

## Rankings

- #90,769 — Overall
- #201 — scan

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `webNavigation`
- `notifications`
- `tabs`
- `unlimitedStorage`
- `alarms`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/moonlight-smartscan)