Is aniwave.ru legit or a scam?
Copycat anime-streaming clone flagged for phishing risk, hidden WHOIS, and suspicious reputation by independent security analysts.
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
Copycat anime-streaming clone flagged for phishing risk, hidden WHOIS, and suspicious reputation by independent security analysts. 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.
MT Intelligence
The domain is a revival clone of aniwave.to, which shut down in 2024 following legal action over copyright infringement. Registration occurred approximately 9 months ago with WHOIS identity hidden behind a paid privacy service — a common pattern in piracy and phishing operations. Independent security analysts have flagged the site with low trust scores (0/100 on one platform, 30/100 on another) and marked it as suspicious due to phishing indicators, recent registration, and lack of legitimate business presence. The page itself is a parked domain landing page hosted on Reg.ru's infrastructure, with no functional content, no contact details, and no business registration in public records. One antivirus engine (Gridinsoft) flagged it as suspicious, and multiple independent review sites recommend avoiding the site entirely.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for aniwave.ru, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered approximately 9 months ago (around Sep 2025 per Scamadviser; WHOIS shows 2025-09-12 registration date)
- Scamadviser Trust Score 0/100; negative factors include hidden WHOIS, recent registration, no SSL certificate found, low visitor count, and IPQS phishing/suspicious flags
- Scam-Detector score 30/100; classified as questionable with medium risk, proximity to suspicious sites, and phishing/malware/spam risk factors
- Gridinsoft marks as Suspicious Website with blacklist warnings and low trust signals
- Part of post-shutdown revival/copycat ecosystem following original AniWave.to (ex-9anime) closure in 2024 due to legal/copyright issues (Wikipedia)
- Reddit users in r/aniwavebutdead and related threads discuss "Is Aniwave.ru safe" with mixed anecdotal reports of popups/ads on similar AniWave domains
- No evidence of financial scams, wallet theft, or specific malware samples directly tied to aniwave.ru in searches; primarily flagged for phishing risk and piracy-related concerns
- Scamadviseropen
"an iwave.ru has a low trust score. ... IPQS flagged this website for Phishing. IPQS has flagged this website as suspicious. In summary, the website might be a scam as we found several negative indicators for aniwave.ru."
- Scam-Detectoropen
"It's definitely questionable, and we don't recommend it based on its medium-low trust score. ... we recommend staying away from this website."
- Gridinsoftopen
"Aniwave.ru Scam Check: Blacklist Warning (35/100 Trust Score). ... Our system marks Aniwave.ru as suspicious."
Registered via REGRU-RU as Private Person; WHOIS identity hidden with paid service; no public company records found
Post-2024 shutdown of original AniWave (formerly 9anime), .ru domain is one of multiple copycat revival sites using the same branding for free anime streaming
Independent security analysts have flagged aniwave.ru with low trust scores and phishing warnings. One platform assigned a 0/100 trust score, citing hidden WHOIS registration, recent domain age, and IPQS phishing/suspicious flags. A second platform gave 30/100, classifying it as questionable with medium risk and phishing/malware/spam concerns. A third analyst marked it as a suspicious website with blacklist warnings. The domain is confirmed as a clone of aniwave.to, which was shut down in 2024 following legal action over copyright infringement; aniwave.ru is one of multiple copycat revival sites using the same branding. Reddit discussions in communities like r/aniwavebutdead show users asking about safety, with mixed anecdotal reports of popups and ads on similar AniWave domains. No evidence of financial scams, wallet theft, or specific malware samples directly tied to aniwave.ru was found; the primary concerns are phishing risk and piracy-related activity.
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
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 aniwave.ru
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 aniwave.ru as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — aniwave.ru scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. aniwave.ru presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa · GlobalSign GCC R3 DV TLS CA 2020, expiring in 120 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged aniwave.ru as malicious or suspicious. Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. aniwave.ru is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- aniwave.ru resolves to an IP operated by Selectel Network in RU (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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 16, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around aniwave.ru 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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