Is anitaku.io legit or a scam?
Anitaku.io is a high-traffic piracy streaming site and Gogoanime clone flagged by multiple security engines for phishing and malicious behavior.
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
Brand impersonation — not the real site
5 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page (2 outright malicious). 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.
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 is a typical unauthorized anime streaming portal; while not a direct brand clone, the conflicting branding between the logo and page title is a common indicator of low-quality or high-risk media sites.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsLogo branding 'GOGO ANIME TV' conflicts with the page title 'Anitaku'
Site offers copyrighted anime content for free, a common pattern for piracy streaming sites
Layout mimics well-known anime streaming platforms to attract users looking for free content
Presence of multiple 'Completed' and 'Sub' badges on every thumbnail to drive engagement
High density of external links and media thumbnails typical of ad-heavy streaming portals
MT Intelligence
The site operates as an unauthorized streaming portal, which is a category frequently associated with aggressive advertising and malware distribution. Our antivirus network shows five different engines, including CRDF and Forcepoint, flagging the domain for phishing and malicious activity. Visual analysis confirms the site is a clone of the Gogoanime brand, a common tactic used by piracy sites to maintain traffic after previous domains are seized. Furthermore, sandbox testing has previously identified malicious activity and phishing tags associated with this specific URL. The lack of any verifiable business registration or contact information further reduces the site's reliability.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for anitaku.io, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered November 25, 2023 via NameCheap with privacy protection (Withheld for Privacy ehf); approximately 2 years 7 months old as of June 2026.
- Popular free anime streaming/piracy site (successor to Gogoanime) offering HD subbed/dubbed episodes; high traffic (ranked in top 35k-100k globally).
- PCrisk scan (May/June 2026): 39/100 trust score, flagged by 5/91 engines with one phishing label, multiple malicious-object detections on pages/assets, Quttera high-risk flags, and potential risks noted.
- ANY.RUN sandbox analysis tagged the domain as phishing with malicious activity verdict (April 2025 report).
- Targeted in ACE (Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment) subpoena for major anime piracy sites; Reddit users frequently discuss domain changes due to takedowns/DMCA.
- Scamadviser rates it as very likely safe/legit with high trust in one view (96 in updated snippet), citing age, SSL, and entertainment category; other checkers like EmailVeritas found no threats.
- No formal business registration or company details publicly linked; operates as an unauthorized streaming platform.
- PCrisk Scanneropen
"39 / 100 Trust Score ... Potentially Suspicious ... Flagged by 5 of 91 engines ... one phishing classification ... extensive heuristic malware-scan findings suggests elevated risk ... may pose potential risks to visitors."
- ANY.RUNopen
"Online sandbox report for anitaku.io , tagged as phishing, verdict: Malicious activity."
- Gridinsoftopen
"Anitaku.io Scam Check: Blacklist Warning (32/100 Trust Score) ... anitaku.io should not be treated as a safe website."
Multiple Reddit threads refer to anitaku.io as the current or successor domain for the long-running Gogoanime piracy site after previous domains were taken down; users discuss it as the updated/continued version of Gogoanime.
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.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://anitaku.io/
- 2200https://anitaku.io/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
1 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.
1 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.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with anitaku.io
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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags anitaku.io as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — anitaku.io scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. anitaku.io presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 32 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 5 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged anitaku.io as malicious or suspicious (2 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. anitaku.io is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- anitaku.io 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 26, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around anitaku.io 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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