Is 1ball.pk legit or a scam?
Unauthorized sports streaming portal flagged by multiple security engines for malware and phishing risks.
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
Critical risk detected
6 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page (4 outright malicious). Multiple independent checks — antivirus engines, browser safety blocklists, and threat databases — flagged this site. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The site appears to be an unauthorized sports streaming portal offering free access to copyrighted broadcasts, a category frequently associated with intrusive advertising and potential malware delivery.
What our vision model saw
6 signalsOffers free live streaming of premium sports content which often indicates copyright infringement sites.
Promotes '100% Free' access to HD sources with no sign-ups or subscriptions required.
Uses a .pk (Pakistan) top-level domain for a site primarily targeting international sports leagues.
Heavy emphasis on joining a Discord server for community/support, common in grey-market streaming sites.
Displays live viewer counts and 'BIG GAME' badges to create engagement and perceived popularity.
Layout mimics professional sports broadcasting hubs but lacks official licensing or corporate information.
MT Intelligence
The site operates as a generic aggregator for pirated sports content, a category frequently used to distribute malware through intrusive advertising. Our antivirus network shows four engines, including Fortinet and Gridinsoft, flagging the domain for malware and phishing. The domain is only five months old and uses a .pk extension while targeting international sports leagues, which is a common pattern for ephemeral piracy sites. Independent trust aggregators have assigned it the lowest possible safety scores due to these risk factors. Furthermore, the site provides no contact information or business registration, making it impossible to hold the operators accountable.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for 1ball.pk, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered approximately January 20-21, 2026 (very young, ~5 months old as of June 2026)
- Multiple security vendors flag the site: 7 blacklist detections reported by Gridinsoft; heuristic phishing and risk signals
- Scamadviser trust score 0/100; low Tranco rank; reported as possibly harmful by Gridinsoft
- Site provides free live sports streaming (NBA, NHL, MLB, UFC, soccer, etc.) by aggregating third-party sources; no signup required
- Mentioned positively in Reddit (r/AFL, r/PiracyBackup) and Facebook groups as a working free sports stream link alongside other piracy sites
- Listed in FMHY GitHub wiki as a recommended stream aggregator for sports
- No public business registration, owner details, or user reviews found; WHOIS hidden
- Scamadviseropen
"The trust score of 1ball.pk is extremely low. This is a strong indicator that the website may be a scam."
- Gridinsoftopen
"Scam Website based on multiple risk signals, including 7 blacklist detections, a very young domain (5 months), and no established public user-review history."
- Scam-Detectoropen
"Our low trust score leans toward "yes." ... 13.1/100 ... Untrustworthy. Risky. Danger."
Antivirus Engines
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 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://1ball.pk/
- 2200https://1ball.pk/
Server Reputation
Avoid this site
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Do not interact with 1ball.pk
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Verify the business through independent channels
Check the company's social profiles, registry records, and search for recent news or reviews that are not hosted on the site itself.
- Never use irreversible payment methods
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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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags 1ball.pk as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — 1ball.pk scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. 1ball.pk presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 34 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 6 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged 1ball.pk as malicious or suspicious (4 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. 1ball.pk is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- 1ball.pk resolves to an IP operated by AlexHost SRL in MD (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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.
- Independent trust-rating sites currently show the following for 1ball.pk: ScamAdviser: 1/100. Those scores come from user reviews and their own heuristics, so they are worth comparing against our verdict.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 28, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around 1ball.pk have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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