Possible brand impersonation
Clone anime streaming mirror flagged for hidden ownership, recent registration, and explicit warnings from the official site. The page looks styled like a known brand but may not be authentic. Check the URL carefully and navigate to the brand's real site before signing in or paying.
Is animepahe.ru legit or a scam?
Clone anime streaming mirror flagged for hidden ownership, recent registration, and explicit warnings from the official site.
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 page presents itself as an anime streaming service but loads only a generic spinner with no real content visible. It is explicitly identified as a clone of animepahe.ch, which itself warns users about fake mirror domains. Independent sources note hidden WHOIS details, recent registration, and shared hosting with low-rated sites. The hosting IP shows a modest abuse score with several reports, and users have complained about aggressive pop-up ads. While major antivirus engines returned clean results and some Reddit users treat it as a working mirror, the combination of clone status and trust warnings outweighs those positives.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for animepahe.ru, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- animepahe.ru receives significant traffic: ~719K visits in April 2026 per Semrush, ranked #58k globally.
- uBlock Origin GitHub issues report persistent popups and nuisance ads on animepahe.ru (2022 reports).
- Scamadviser assigns low trust score (0) citing hidden WHOIS owner, recent registration, and shared server with low-rated sites.
- IPQualityScore flags i.animepahe.ru subdomain as high risk for abusive/scam behavior.
- Official animepahe.ch site explicitly warns users about fake/mirror domains.
- Reddit users frequently recommend or reference animepahe.ru as a working mirror when other domains fail.
- VirusTotal and SSL checks show clean malware/phishing flags but note secure HTTPS connection.
- Scamadviseropen
"animepahe.ru has a slightly low trust score. ... Caution Recommended ... The website's owner is hiding his identity on WHOIS using a paid service ... This website has only been registered recently."
- Checksite AIopen
"Warning—The site ahead may contain harmful programs. Attackers might attempt to trick you into installing ... Likely Unwanted App."
- Turi's VPNopen
"beware of clone sites in your search results, such as AnimePahe.ru . These “mirror” sites are often traps designed to phish for personal information or deliver more aggressive viruses than the original."
animepahe.ch states 'Beware of fake websites, our only official domain is animepahe.ch , animepahe.ng'; multiple sources refer to .ru as a mirror/clone.
independent review aggregator notes a low trust score citing hidden WHOIS and recent registration. Checksite AI warns of potential harmful programs. Turi's VPN explicitly cautions against clone sites like animepahe.ru that may phish or deliver malware. Reddit users in piracy communities mention it positively as an alternative domain, while the official animepahe.ch site warns about fake mirrors. Five complaints were recorded alongside uBlock Origin reports of aggressive ads.
Scam Network Intelligence
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.
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.
- 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.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
Possible brand impersonation
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Treat animepahe.ru as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- 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 marked animepahe.ru as suspicious. Several warning signs were detected; it may still turn out legitimate, but you should verify it through independent channels before trusting it with money or credentials.
- animepahe.ru currently scores 47/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged animepahe.ru as malicious or suspicious. Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. animepahe.ru is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- animepahe.ru resolves to an IP operated by Team Internet AG in CA (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.
- 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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