Is baiscope.lk safe?
http://baiscope.lk/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 92 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Long-running Sinhala subtitle catalogue with no technical detections, but no named operator and only on-site contact forms
Baiscope.lk is a Sri Lankan Sinhala-subtitle site for movies and TV series, listing 23,662 subtitle entries and a search box for films, series and actors. Our checks found no malware or phishing signals: the browser threat feed returned no warning, the connection is properly encrypted, and the hosting IP has a clean abuse record. The site has also been archived since February 2015, which fits a long-standing community subtitle destination rather than a throwaway domain. What holds the score in the low-risk band is operator transparency: the captured home, about and contact pages name no owner, registration number, email address, phone or postal address, and the only way to reach the site is through its own forms. Independent research surfaced only directory and traffic listings, not an ownership record.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scanSaved antivirus result from Aug 18, 2026: no detections across 59 enginesWhere 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 72/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. 1 finding pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateNo owner name, registration ID, email, phone or postal address is published; contact is possible only through on-site forms.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsSafe Browsing returned no warning, TLS is valid, and the hosting IP has zero abuse reports.
- SupportsThe home page has been captured by the Internet Archive since February 2015, with yearly captures unbroken from 2020 to 2026.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor).
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
Baiscope.lk is a Sri Lankan Sinhala-subtitle site for movies and TV series, listing 23,662 subtitle entries and a search box for films, series and actors. Our checks found no malware or phishing signals: the browser threat feed returned no warning, the connection is properly encrypted, and the hosting IP has a clean abuse record. The site has also been archived since February 2015, which fits a long-standing community subtitle destination rather than a throwaway domain. What holds the score in the low-risk band is operator transparency: the captured home, about and contact pages name no owner, registration number, email address, phone or postal address, and the only way to reach the site is through its own forms. Independent research surfaced only directory and traffic listings, not an ownership record.
A subtitle catalogue funded by advertising, not a shop or payment site
The captured pages show a film and TV catalogue: a counter reading "Sinhala Subtitles 23,662", a search field for movies, series and actors, and a header branding the site as a Sinhala-language subtitle provider. Screenshots show poster thumbnails and site statistics for subtitles, downloads and comments, consistent with a download-oriented content library rather than a storefront.
Money comes from advertising. An "Advertise with us" dialog asks for a name, email, contact number and message so the team can reply by phone or email, and a 728x90 slot invites advertisers to enquire. No checkout, subscription, deposit or order page was observed anywhere in the captured flow, so there is no billing or refund mechanism for a visitor to be caught in.
The only visitor-facing commercial actions are a "Support" button and a support-ticket flow that routes problems such as a video that will not play to an on-site form with a tracking reference. Both stay on the site's own domain; no cross-domain order or payment path appears in the evidence.
Clean technical checks, thin operator disclosure
Technical checks came back clean: no Safe Browsing threat warning, a valid encrypted connection, and a hosting IP with an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across zero saved reports. That means nothing malicious was detected at the time of the scan; it is not a review of who runs the site.
The operator side is weaker. No direct contact email was found on the captured page, and the contact form asks for a name, email, optional phone, subject and message without publishing any address of its own. No owner name, registration ID or postal address is disclosed, so a visitor has no way to verify who is behind the catalogue or where to escalate a dispute.
Longevity is the strongest counterweight. The Internet Archive first captured the home page on 14 February 2015, with unbroken yearly captures from 2020 to 2026 — archive dates, not a registration date, since the .lk registry offers no public lookup. Independent research found only a brand directory entry describing it as a Sinhala subtitle site and a traffic listing showing a month-on-month decline, neither of which confirms ownership.
What a visitor actually does here
A visitor browses or searches the subtitle catalogue and, if something breaks, opens a support ticket through the site's own form, receiving a reference to track it. That form collects a name, email and optional phone number, and the advertising enquiry form collects the same details plus a message — personal data submitted to an operator who publishes no identity.
No payment, subscription or download destination was captured, so the evidence does not show a billing, refund or delivery mechanism that could trap a visitor. The subtitle catalogue itself is third-party film and series material, which is a licensing question rather than a security finding.
Why the score is 72
The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 92
No detectionsSaved analysis from August 18, 2026 - stale
No detections across 59 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 33 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 92
All 92 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- 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 - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- Cluster25 - Unrated
- 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
- 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
- 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
- alphaMountain.aiSearch Engines/Portals
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerbusiness and economy
- Sophosentertainment
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
Visual context from the captured page
Header shows the Sinhala logo 'බයිස්කෝප් සිංහලෙන්' with a film-reel motif and the tagline 'Sri Lanka's Leading Subtitle Provider for Movies, Series & Everything In Between'. Top navigation: HOME, MOVIES, TV SERIES, CATEGORIES, COLLECTIONS, a search icon, a 'Support' button and a 'Become a Contributor' button. Below the search box the page displays 'Subtitles: 22.6K | Downloads: 157.5M | Comments: 724.6K'. An 'ADVERTISEMENT' panel labelled 1101 contains a 728x90 placeholder reading 'Enquire about advertising with us.' / 'Your ad could be here' with an 'Advertise with us' button. A cookie banner states 'Baiscope sets no cookies of its own. We use Google Analytics to see which pages get read — two cookies, up to 400 days, shared with Google.' with Accept all / Reject all / Choose buttons. Background and grid show movie/TV poster thumbnails (e.g. 'THE LOOMING TOWER', 'WHISPER MAN', 'TRUE', 'HARA') behind the hero, consistent with a film/series catalogue.
What the captured page showed
6 observations- 01
Header shows the Sinhala logo 'බයිස්කෝප් සිංහලෙන්' with a film-reel motif and the tagline 'Sri Lanka's Leading Subtitle Provider for Movies, Series & Everything In Between'.
- 02
Top navigation: HOME, MOVIES, TV SERIES, CATEGORIES, COLLECTIONS, a search icon, a 'Support' button and a 'Become a Contributor' button.
- 03
Below the search box the page displays 'Subtitles: 22.6K | Downloads: 157.5M | Comments: 724.6K'.
- 04
An 'ADVERTISEMENT' panel labelled 1101 contains a 728x90 placeholder reading 'Enquire about advertising with us.' / 'Your ad could be here' with an 'Advertise with us' button.
- 05
A cookie banner states 'Baiscope sets no cookies of its own. We use Google Analytics to see which pages get read — two cookies, up to 400 days, shared with Google.' with Accept all / Reject all / Choose buttons.
- 06
Background and grid show movie/TV poster thumbnails (e.g. 'THE LOOMING TOWER', 'WHISPER MAN', 'TRUE', 'HARA') behind the hero, consistent with a film/series catalogue.
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
බයිස්කෝප් සිංහලෙන් – Sinhala Subtitles – Sinhala Subtitles – සිංහල උපසිරසි වෙබ් අඩවිය
- Meta description
Movies, series and everything in between
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/aboutRead
- Contact page/contactRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
බයිස්කෝප් සිංහලෙන් – Sinhala Subtitles – Sinhala Subtitles – සිංහල උපසිරසි වෙබ් අඩවිය
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 6 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01No owner name, registration ID, email, phone or postal address is published; contact is possible only through on-site forms.
- 02The home page has been captured by the Internet Archive since February 2015, with yearly captures unbroken from 2020 to 2026.
- 03Safe Browsing returned no warning, TLS is valid, and the hosting IP has zero abuse reports.
Web research findings
Independent findings for baiscope.lk, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for baiscope.lk. 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.
Infrastructure map
- Domainbaiscope.lk
- Redirects towww.baiscope.lk
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesd36zzuvfojr38z.cloudfront.net · flickoo.com
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
Certificate issued for baiscope.lk.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
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://baiscope.lk/
- 2200https://www.baiscope.lk/
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
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No owner name, registration ID, email, phone or postal address is published; contact is possible only through on-site forms.
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 92 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Aug 18, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 5, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 5, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 6 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 5, 2026 |
| Independent research | 2 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 5, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 92 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Aug 18, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 5, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 5, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result6 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 5, 2026
- Independent research
- Result2 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 5, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is baiscope.lk a scam or is it safe?
Is baiscope.lk safe to use?
Has baiscope.lk been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is baiscope.lk on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Long-running Sinhala subtitle catalogue with no technical detections, but no named operator and only on-site contact forms
Baiscope.lk is a Sri Lankan Sinhala-subtitle site for movies and TV series, listing 23,662 subtitle entries and a search box for films, series and actors. Our checks found no malware or phishing signals: the browser threat feed returned no warning, the connection is properly encrypted, and the hosting IP has a clean abuse record. The site has also been archived since February 2015, which fits a long-standing community subtitle destination rather than a throwaway domain. What holds the score in the low-risk band is operator transparency: the captured home, about and contact pages name no owner, registration number, email address, phone or postal address, and the only way to reach the site is through its own forms. Independent research surfaced only directory and traffic listings, not an ownership record.
09 · Community
Community
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