Chrome Web Store
11Versions
3Code reviewed

No malware found

In code review (v2.0.10)

Our reviewer read version 2.0.10 — the most recent version we have reviewed — and found no malicious behaviour. The version shown here has not been individually reviewed yet.

What our analysis found

TG Content Downloader - Telegram Downloader, used by 50,000 people, showed no malicious code in Extension Auditor's review. It comes from a trusted publisher and was last updated in October 2026.

Analyst notes

Every network sink in the three JavaScript files provided is first-party: six ` /*` and ` /*` endpoints on [domain withheld] (:9818, 9842, 9867, 9935, 10016, 10069), one Google OAuth token-revoke call (:9893), and one `get-transaction` call in price.:1969 — nothing else, confirmed by enumerating all 11 `fetch(` sites. The media-download core in only ranged-GETs same-origin `[domain withheld] URLs it builds from Telegram's own `window.rootScope.managers.appMessagesManager` document locations (lines ~330-360) and saves them through a blob anchor (line ~520) — media bytes never leave the browser, so the ML `critical` score and the 6%-flagged permhash cluster are not corroborated by any code here. On the mandatory manifest cross-check: the bundled 2.0.10 manifest is a superset of the published summary (`identity`, `activeTab`, `[domain withheld], `[domain withheld]), which is exactly the delayed-malicious shape given the one recorded hand-off — but each addition maps to visible, benign code (`identity` → `launchWebAuthFlow` with scope `openid email` at:9801-9815; `[domain withheld]` → the revoke fetch at 9893; `[domain withheld]` → the licensing API and the ` ` web-accessible resource), and the bundled manifest actually *narrows* the published `<all_urls>` / `"*"` web-accessible-resource grant to two specific origins, so I read this as listing-snapshot lag on an extension updated 3 days ago rather than escalation. Confidence is capped at medium because three declared files are absent from the bundle — ` ` (the only privileged code that actually runs on [domain withheld]), ` `, and ` ` — against ML metadata citing 86 files and 5.9 MB of JS, so a backdoor in the content script cannot be ruled out. Two hygiene notes that are not findings: module `9b11` grants 24 hours of unlimited downloads in exchange for a store rating (incentivized reviews), so the,833-review score and chrome-stats' `good-user-rating` are weak corroboration; and `resolveAndDownload` will fetch a non-Telegram URL handed to it via the page-world `video_download` CustomEvent if DOM resolution fails, which is sloppy but only reaches page-origin fetch plus a user-visible download.

TG Content Downloader - Telegram Downloader

TG Content Downloader - Telegram Downloader Chrome extension security report

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Supported Languages

🇸🇦Arabic
🇧🇩Bengali
🇧🇷Brazilian Portuguese
🇬🇧British English
🇧🇬Bulgarian
🇪🇸Catalan
🇨🇳Chinese (Simplified)
🇹🇼Chinese (Traditional)
🇭🇷Croatian
🇨🇿Czech
🇩🇰Danish
🇺🇸English
🇪🇪Estonian
🇵🇭Filipino
🇫🇮Finnish
🇫🇷French
🇩🇪German
🇬🇷Greek
🇮🇳Gujarati
🇮🇱Hebrew
🇮🇳Hindi
🇭🇺Hungarian
🇮🇩Indonesian
🇮🇹Italian
🇯🇵Japanese
🇰🇷Korean
🇲🇽Latin American Spanish
🇱🇻Latvian
🇱🇹Lithuanian
🇲🇾Malay
🇮🇳Malayalam
🇮🇳Marathi
🇳🇴Norwegian
🇮🇷Persian
🇵🇱Polish
🇵🇹Portuguese
🇷🇴Romanian
🇷🇺Russian
🇷🇸Serbian
🇸🇰Slovak
🇸🇮Slovenian
🇪🇸Spanish
🇸🇪Swedish
🇮🇳Tamil
🇮🇳Telugu
🇹🇭Thai
🇹🇷Turkish
🇺🇦Ukrainian
🇺🇸US English
🇻🇳Vietnamese

Extension Info & Metadata

Status
Active
Version
2.0.11
Size
1.57 MB
Rating
4.8/5
Reviews
23,900
Users
50,000
Type
Extension
Updated
Oct 10, 2026
Category
Tools
Price
Free
Featured
No
Visibility
Listed
Mature
No
By Google
No
Trusted
Yes
This publisherTrack record
1extension
All still listed
Scanned by Extension Auditor — Low RiskDevelopers: embed this badge to link to this report.

Publisher Contextual Analysis

Trusted
Author
https://tgdownloader.com/
MX records exist
Yes
Domain exists
Yes
Is disposable
No
Is role-based
No
Mailbox exists
Yes
Website
Visit
Extensions
1
Active
1
Obsolete
0
Listed
1
Unlisted
0
Users
50,000

Email Change History

1 change
Oct 12, 2024
Domain changed

Screenshots & videos

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Install growth

Item
Type
Severity
Description
identity
Permission
High
This permission accesses Chrome identity service and user information. Rated High because it can obtain OAuth tokens, access connected accounts, and impersonate the user in authenticated service.
Contextual Risk Factors
Risk Factor
High
The following context increases the overall risk: • 19% increase: Access to sensitive domains increases potential impact
storage
Permission
Medium
This permission allows storing data locally in the browser. Rated Medium because it can persist sensitive user data, track user activities over time, and potentially store malicious payloads.
activeTab
Permission
Medium
This permission grants temporary access to the current tab. Rated Medium because it can access current page content when invoked, though limited to user-initiated actions.
https://web.telegram.org/*
Host
Medium
Host permission — access limited to this URL pattern.
https://*.tgdownloader.com/*
Host
Medium
Host permission — access limited to this URL pattern.
https://accounts.google.com/*
Host
Medium
Host permission — access limited to this URL pattern.
Access to Sensitive Domains
Risk Factor
Medium
This extension requests access to sensitive domains: https://accounts.google.com/*

About this extension

Download videos, images,stories, or music from Telegram Privacy Restrictions with only one click

Read the publisher’s full description

Free TG Content Downloader - Telegram Downloader, use it to download pictures, videos, stories, audio, music With this extension, you can easily download restricted content from web.telegram.org with just one click. 🚀 Features: 1. Supports pictures, videos, stories, audio, music 2. Small size (less than 1 MB) and high performance, no data collection. ⚡ 3. Supports batch downloads. ✅ 3. Supports Telegram K version. ✅ 4. Download messages in public and private channels. 🔓🔒 5. 24/7 developer support. 👩‍💻👨‍💻 Basic plan has a limit of 5 downloads per day. 📉 Premium plan has no limit forever. 📈 More features coming soon. 🚧 Disclaimer: This extension is completely independent and is not affiliated or endorsed by the official Telegram app/website in any way. It is a separately developed and maintained third-party application.

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Version
Size
Verdict
Findings
Permhash
2.0.11
Latest
1.57 MBNot scanned—
1bdcf3ee68882e87676f1b00dcd6ef16933fbec68bf3ec26c00ca96e65ed4d10
2.0.10
1.57 MBNo malware found0
1bdcf3ee68882e87676f1b00dcd6ef16933fbec68bf3ec26c00ca96e65ed4d10
2.0.5
1.27 MBNo malware found0
1bdcf3ee68882e87676f1b00dcd6ef16933fbec68bf3ec26c00ca96e65ed4d10
2.0.4
2.46 MBNot scanned—
1bdcf3ee68882e87676f1b00dcd6ef16933fbec68bf3ec26c00ca96e65ed4d10
2.0.2
1.76 MBNot scanned—
49a25f9feefaffecad0fcd30c50dc9331cff8b55ece53def6285c09e17e6f5d7
2.0.1
1.76 MBNot scanned—
49a25f9feefaffecad0fcd30c50dc9331cff8b55ece53def6285c09e17e6f5d7
2.0.0
1.76 MBNot scanned—
49a25f9feefaffecad0fcd30c50dc9331cff8b55ece53def6285c09e17e6f5d7
1.0.2
1.48 MBNo malware found0
43990a5002d66e8f943be6a9d9bbc2b15179138c05bd48123db8e9416ef16abd
1.0.1
1.48 MBNot scanned—
43990a5002d66e8f943be6a9d9bbc2b15179138c05bd48123db8e9416ef16abd
1.0.0
1.47 MBNot scanned—
43990a5002d66e8f943be6a9d9bbc2b15179138c05bd48123db8e9416ef16abd
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