Extratorrnet.cc Proxy -

curl "http://extratorrnet.cc/announce?info_hash=%00%01...&peer_id=-qB0000...&port=6881&uploaded=0&downloaded=0&left=0&event=started"

The OP was confused. "I never set up a proxy," they wrote. "Is this malware?" extratorrnet.cc proxy

This was a preservation project, disguised as a proxy. Someone had indexed the old Extratorrent database (which had been publicly dumped years ago) and was serving magnet links through this domain. But why was it appearing as a proxy inside my BitTorrent client? curl "http://extratorrnet

http://extratorrnet.cc/announce

Intrigued, I decided to investigate. I found the same torrent, added it to a fresh, isolated virtual machine, and watched. Someone had indexed the old Extratorrent database (which

That was it. The torrent file, likely created years ago and re-uploaded to modern sites, still contained a dead tracker from the Extratorrent era. Some clever operator had bought the domain extratorrnet.cc and set up a lightweight, always-on announce proxy. Their server listened for scrape and announce requests, pretended to be the old Extratorrent tracker, and responded with a standard "peers list" — which was likely empty or synthetic.

I let the torrent run for an hour. The client kept trying extratorrnet.cc every few minutes, getting the same empty response, then falling back to the other working trackers. It caused no harm, no benefit, just a tiny trickle of bandwidth to a forgotten server.