Is animatearchiverevival.straw.page safe?
http://animatearchiverevival.straw.page/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (57 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Flash 'abandonware' archive tells visitors to disable antivirus before installing downloads
AnimateArchive Revival is a StrawPage-hosted fan page that republishes legacy Macromedia and Adobe Flash software as 'abandonware' and offers Download buttons that hand visitors off to MediaFire-hosted installers. The site itself is clean in the saved checks — no antivirus detections, no Safe Browsing warning, valid TLS — but its own instructions tell visitors to switch off their antivirus if installation produces 'weird messages', and it openly suggests pirating or cracking the software when no serial is listed. That combination of executable downloads from third-party hosting plus advice to bypass security software is the reason this lands in the High Risk band rather than Safe.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 38/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 3 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- StrongA primary play, convert, continue, or download control opened an unrelated external destination.-14 pts
- ModerateThe page tells visitors to disable their antivirus programs if installation produces 'weird messages', which normalises bypassing the control that would detect a tampered installer.-7 pts
- MinorNo direct contact email was found on the captured page and the site discloses no operator identity or registration, so there is no accountable party behind the downloads.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe page URL returned zero malicious and zero suspicious detections across 93 engines, the browser threat feed reported no threat warning, and the connection was encrypted — though these describe the page address, not the linked installer.
- SupportsThe site is a subdomain of straw.page, a free website builder whose registrable domain is 2284 days old; that age reflects the parent platform, not this subdomain.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 59 to 38 and split those 21 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger. Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
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01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
AnimateArchive Revival is a StrawPage-hosted fan page that republishes legacy Macromedia and Adobe Flash software as 'abandonware' and offers Download buttons that hand visitors off to MediaFire-hosted installers. The site itself is clean in the saved checks — no antivirus detections, no Safe Browsing warning, valid TLS — but its own instructions tell visitors to switch off their antivirus if installation produces 'weird messages', and it openly suggests pirating or cracking the software when no serial is listed. That combination of executable downloads from third-party hosting plus advice to bypass security software is the reason this lands in the High Risk band rather than Safe.
What the site actually offers and where the files come from
The page presents itself as a personal 'revival project' of a previously taken-down archive, and its main interactive element is a Download control. That control does not serve a file from the site itself — it opens an unrelated external destination, a MediaFire file named SETUP.EXE. The saved evidence records this as a primary download control leading to an off-site executable, which means the visitor's trust decision is really being made about a third-party file host, not about this page.
The catalogue is explicitly framed as abandoned software no longer supported by Adobe, and the operator states that if no serials are listed, visitors may 'pirate to crack those softwares'. That is not a neutral archive description; it is an invitation to run modified or unlicensed installers whose provenance the page does not establish.
The antivirus-bypass instruction is the decisive risk
The page anticipates a security warning: it asks 'Why my anti-virus acting weird when installing it?' and then answers that if installation produces 'weird messages', the visitor 'may just disable those anti virus programs'. Whatever the operator's intent, the practical effect is to train visitors to turn off the one control that would catch a tampered installer. This is the strongest adverse fact on the page and it is stated in the site's own words.
The saved technical checks do not contradict that concern, but they do not resolve it either. The URL itself returned zero malicious and zero suspicious detections across 93 engines, the browser threat feed reported no threat warning, and the connection was encrypted. Those results describe the page address, not the MediaFire-hosted SETUP.EXE that the Download button leads to, so they cannot vouch for the installer a visitor is being pushed toward.
Operator identity, hosting and the limits of what we can confirm
The operator is anonymous: no direct contact email was found on the captured page, and the site gives no business registration or verifiable identity. The page explains its own origin story — that the original AnimateArchive was taken down by Adobe and a second site was also removed — but that narrative is the operator's own account and does not establish who is behind the downloads.
The site sits on a subdomain of straw.page, a free website builder whose registrable domain is 2284 days old. That age belongs to the parent platform, not to this subdomain, so it says nothing about how long this particular page has existed or about the operator's track record. The page also links out to unrelated destinations such as newgrounds.com, github.com and flashpointarchive.org for tools and archives; those are ordinary reference links, not commercial funnels, and they do not change the download risk.
Why the score is 38
A primary play, convert, continue, or download control opened an unrelated external destination. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 57 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 36 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Unrated
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- BitDefendercomputersandsoftware
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerinformation technology
- Googletechnology
- Sophosinformation technology
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
Animate Archive REVIVAL Download
What the captured page showed
2 observations- 01
Animate Archive REVIVAL
- 02
Download
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
animatearchiverevival's strawpage
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
animatearchiverevival's strawpage
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 57 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
Malware & Deceptive Downloads
Service and business model
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The page tells visitors to disable their antivirus programs if installation produces 'weird messages', which normalises bypassing the control that would detect a tampered installer.
- 02No direct contact email was found on the captured page and the site discloses no operator identity or registration, so there is no accountable party behind the downloads.
- 03The site is a subdomain of straw.page, a free website builder whose registrable domain is 2284 days old; that age reflects the parent platform, not this subdomain.
Web research findings
Independent findings for animatearchiverevival.straw.page, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for animatearchiverevival.straw.page. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainanimatearchiverevival.straw.page
- Redirects toanimatearchiverevival.straw.page
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesnotebook.straw.page · cdnjs.cloudflare.com
Domain Timeline
- Jul 29, 2020Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 6 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 30, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
animatearchiverevival.straw.page is an established domain now carrying threat signals. An older domain that starts tripping security checks is a classic pattern for an asset that was sold, repurposed, or compromised — the age alone is not reassurance.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No direct contact email found on the captured page.
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
Certificate issued for straw.page.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
Security checks
- Cloudflare Turnstile
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- cdnjs
- Google Fonts
- jsDelivr
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://animatearchiverevival.straw.page/
- 2200https://animatearchiverevival.straw.page/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
suspiciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
A primary play, convert, continue, or download control opened an unrelated external destination. · The page tells visitors to disable their antivirus programs if installation produces 'weird messages', which normalises bypassing the control that would detect a tampered installer.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Oct 30, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 30, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 30, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 2 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 30, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 30, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 30, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 30, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 30, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result2 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 30, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 30, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Flash 'abandonware' archive tells visitors to disable antivirus before installing downloads
AnimateArchive Revival is a StrawPage-hosted fan page that republishes legacy Macromedia and Adobe Flash software as 'abandonware' and offers Download buttons that hand visitors off to MediaFire-hosted installers. The site itself is clean in the saved checks — no antivirus detections, no Safe Browsing warning, valid TLS — but its own instructions tell visitors to switch off their antivirus if installation produces 'weird messages', and it openly suggests pirating or cracking the software when no serial is listed. That combination of executable downloads from third-party hosting plus advice to bypass security software is the reason this lands in the High Risk band rather than Safe.
09 · Community
Community
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