Is animepahe.si legit or a scam?
Offline anime piracy domain with hidden registrant, mixed antivirus flags, and no legitimate business registration.
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
Warning signs detected
Offline anime piracy domain with hidden registrant, mixed antivirus flags, and no legitimate business registration. Several risk indicators suggest caution. This site might be legitimate — but treat it as unverified until you can independently confirm.
Website Preview
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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 screenshot shows a browser error page for a domain that does not exist in DNS; no site content is available for visual analysis.
What our vision model saw
1 signalBrowser-generated DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN error page indicates the domain does not resolve to any server
MT Intelligence
animepahe.si is part of the long-running AnimePahe piracy network, which streams and downloads copyrighted anime without authorization. The domain is currently unreachable (DNS resolution failure), though it was active until recently and is referenced in GitHub projects and Reddit discussions as a working mirror. The registrant details are privacy-protected, the domain is only 276 days old, and Webroot flagged it as malicious while two other engines marked it suspicious — a pattern typical of piracy sites rather than credential-theft or malware operations. No scam reports, phishing complaints, or wallet-draining schemes were found in our research. The site's primary risk is legal (copyright infringement) and operational (frequent downtime, domain rotation), not financial fraud or credential harvesting.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for animepahe.si, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain created 2025-09-09, expires 2026-09-09 (approx. 276 days old at scan), registered with NETIM SAS, nameservers on Cloudflare, registrant details hidden.
- AnimePahe is a well-known free anime streaming/download site popular in piracy communities (r/animepiracy, r/animeindian); .si variant actively referenced in GitHub projects, CLI tools, browser extensions, and Reddit as a working mirror.
- Official AnimePahe pages (e.g. animepahe.ch, animepahe.com) have posted warnings about fake sites and listed official domains that sometimes include .si and sometimes exclude it during reported .si outages.
- Multiple reports of .si domain downtime/server problems in early 2026; users directed to .com or .org alternatives.
- No specific scam, phishing, malware, or wallet-draining reports found for animepahe.si; security scanners give mixed/low-moderate trust scores typical for piracy sites (recent registration, hidden owner, illegal content).
- Related variants (.ru, .pw, .com) flagged by some scanners for being newly registered, low traffic, or illegal/piracy category, but no confirmed malicious payloads tied to .si.
- Used for streaming HD anime with minimal ads per user reports; subject to frequent domain changes common in the anime piracy scene.
- Reddit (r/animeindian)open
"BTW i usually use animepahe.si / it has no ads and streams really fast."
- GitHub (Pal-droid/Animepahe-API)open
"This project provides an async Python FastAPI backend to search for anime, fetch episodes, and resolve streaming sources from AnimePahe (https://animepahe.si)."
- Rust crate (pahe-cli)open
"pahe-cli download --series https://animepahe.si/anime/..."
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for animepahe.si and found no scam reports or complaints. Three positive mentions appeared: a Reddit user in r/animeindian praised the site for fast streaming and minimal ads; a GitHub project (Pal-droid/Animepahe-API) documents it as a backend source for anime search and streaming; and a Rust CLI tool (pahe-cli) lists it as an example download domain. The domain is registered in Slovenia (.si) via NETIM SAS with Cloudflare nameservers and privacy-protected registrant details. AnimePahe is a well-known free anime streaming site popular in piracy communities; the .si variant is one of several active mirrors (.com, .org, .ch, .pw) that rotate due to reported downtime and domain changes. No phishing, malware, wallet-draining, or credential-harvesting schemes were found.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Proceed with caution
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Treat animepahe.si as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- 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.
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 marked animepahe.si 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.si 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.
- animepahe.si is 9 months old, registered on 9/9/2025 through HOSTING CONCEPTS B.V.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 3 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged animepahe.si as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. animepahe.si is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 13, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around animepahe.si 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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