Brand impersonation — not the real site
The page visually clones 9anime. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
Is 123animehub.cc legit or a scam?
Clone of 9anime offering free dubbed/subbed anime streams, flagged by scanners and tied to anti-piracy court orders.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as a free anime streaming platform with over 11,000 titles but explicitly brands itself as an alternate of 9anime. Visual analysis confirms it is a low-quality clone of both 9anime and 123animes.ru with heavy SEO keyword stuffing. Domain age is over six years, yet security scanners assign very low trust scores and note vendor blacklisting. It appears in reports of global anti-piracy court orders targeting hundreds of similar streaming domains. The combination of cloning behavior, poor scanner reputation, and legal mentions outweighs the older registration date.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
The page visually mimics 9anime
Page is a low-quality clone/alternative of 9anime focused on free anime streaming with heavy SEO spam text.
What our vision model saw
3 signalsRepetitive keyword-stuffed footer text promoting free anime streaming
Explicitly labels itself as "An Alternate of 9anime"
Basic centered layout with large logo and search bar but no functional content beyond SEO text
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for 123animehub.cc, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain 123animehub.cc registered July 26, 2019 (approx. 2498 days old as of query).
- Operates as free anime streaming site offering sub/dub HD content, ~11,000+ titles claimed.
- Security scanners report low trust: 8/100 (Gridinsoft, blacklisted by vendors), 22/100 (PCRisk, 5 engines flagged).
- Mentioned in Reddit post about global anti-piracy court order targeting 200+ streaming sites including this domain.
- Traffic: ~30k-2M+ monthly visits per SimilarWeb/Semrush; competitors include gogoanime.by, animixplay.fun.
- No MX records (email invalid); WOT has zero community reviews.
- Related/mentioned sites like 123animes.ru also flagged with low trust scores by same scanners.
- gridinsoft.comopen
"123animehub.cc should not be treated as a safe website . Gridinsoft gives it a 8/100 trust score, and multiple security vendors blacklist the domain."
- scanner.pcrisk.comopen
"Is 123animehub.cc safe to visit? Check our automated security scan: trust score 22/100, 5/91 engines flagged, SSL status, blacklist check."
- reddit.comopen
"New anti-piracy court order hits 1xAnime, 123animehub , AnimeKai, Anoboy & 200+ more streaming sites in global domain sweep."
- scam-detector.comopen
"The Scam Detector website Validator gives 123animehub.cc one of the higher trust scores on the platform: 84.3."
- filmora.wondershare.comopen
"123anime ( 123animehub.cc ). 123anime is a popular platform renowned for its extensive collection of dubbed Japanese anime series, movies, and TV shows."
Site name and content mirror other 123anime-branded anime streaming sites; listed alongside similar domains in competitor lists and anti-piracy actions
Our research found three scam-related mentions: Gridinsoft and PCRisk both give very low trust scores with vendor blacklisting noted, while a Reddit thread lists the domain among sites targeted by global anti-piracy court orders. Two positive mentions exist on review and article sites, but scanner and legal signals are stronger. No business registration records were located.
Scam Network Intelligence
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 3 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://123animehub.cc/
- 2200https://123animehub.cc/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Visual clone of 9anime detected in the screenshot.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Visual clone of 9anime detected in the screenshot.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with 123animehub.cc
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
- Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
- OpenReport the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review flags 123animehub.cc as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — 123animehub.cc scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. 123animehub.cc presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 89 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 123animehub.cc is 6.8 years old, registered on 7/26/2019 through Immaterialism Limited. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. 123animehub.cc is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- 123animehub.cc resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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