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.
Is fmovies.cc legit or a scam?
Clone of the banned FMovies piracy site flagged by Fortinet and ADMINUSLabs with documented malware risks.
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
Website Preview
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Visual 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
We could not capture a fully-rendered screenshot of this page; visual analysis is inconclusive.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
Intelligence
The site presents itself as a free streaming platform but carries two direct malware detections from our antivirus network. It is explicitly identified as a post-shutdown clone of fmovies.to, which was taken down after Vietnamese authorities arrested its operators in 2024. The domain itself is only 2.6 years old, registered to an individual in Ukraine with no business registration found. Independent reports from Scam Detector, MacKeeper, and TroyPoint all flag FMovies mirrors for intrusive ads, redirects, and malware campaigns affecting over a million devices. The combination of active malware detections, confirmed clone status, and repeated malware associations outweighs the clean browser blocklist result.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for fmovies.cc, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain fmovies.cc registered 2023-11-14 via NETIM SAS; registrant listed as Goldun, Andrii, Kyiv, Ukraine (WHOIS data).
- Scam Detector assigns 11.4/100 trust score citing high-risk factors including malware score 52/100.
- FMovies original site shut down August 2024 after Vietnamese authorities arrested operators; fmovies.cc is a post-shutdown mirror/clone.
- Multiple sources link FMovies family sites to intrusive ads, pop-ups, redirects, and malware distribution risks.
- Reddit users in r/Piracy and r/PiracyArchive discuss fmovies.cc as one of several active but unreliable FMovies mirrors; some report it works slowly or is blocked.
- No Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, or ScamDoc reviews found specifically for fmovies.cc; similar FMovies domains flagged low-trust or unsafe by scanners.
- No evidence of legitimate business registration or company entity; operates as unauthorized free streaming site hosting copyrighted content.
- Scam Detectoropen
"Is fmovies.cc a scam? Our low trust score leans toward "yes." ... The Scam Detector’s algorithm gives this business the following rank: 11.4/100"
- Mackeeperopen
"FMovies is leaking malware and potential threats, and the likelihood of downloading a virus is extremely high, thus, it's best to avoid FMovies altogether."
- TroyPointopen
"Former Pirate Website 'FMovies' Linked to Malware Campaign ... The popular pirate website 'Fmovies' has been linked to a malware campaign affecting over one million devices worldwide."
Part of FMovies network of mirror/clone sites; original FMovies shut down in 2024 by authorities; multiple similar domains (fmovies.cc, fmoviesto.cc etc.) operate as unauthorized copies.
Scam Detector assigned fmovies.cc an 11.4/100 trust score citing high malware risk. MacKeeper warned that FMovies leaks malware and carries an extremely high chance of virus downloads. TroyPoint reported the original FMovies linked to a malware campaign affecting over one million devices. Reddit users in piracy communities describe fmovies.cc as one of several active but unreliable mirrors. No positive reviews or legitimate business registrations were located for this specific domain.
Domain Timeline
- Nov 14, 2023Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 2.6 years old today.
- Jul 8, 2026Latest security review — Flagged as dangerous
This scan re-ran every check; the current findings are detailed above.
fmovies.cc is an established domain now carrying threat signals. An older domain that starts tripping security checks is a classic pattern for an asset that was sold, repurposed, or compromised — the age alone is not reassurance.
Threat Detection
Scam Network
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
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.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedContact 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
What to do
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with fmovies.cc
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.
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Final Verdict
fmovies.cc is a clone of the shut-down FMovies piracy site. Two antivirus engines flagged it as malicious and multiple sources link the FMovies family to malware distribution.
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 fmovies.cc as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — fmovies.cc scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. fmovies.cc presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E7, expiring in 33 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- fmovies.cc is 2.6 years old, registered on 11/14/2023 through NETIM SAS. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 5 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged fmovies.cc as malicious or suspicious (2 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. fmovies.cc is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- fmovies.cc resolves to an IP operated by Linode 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 July 8, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around fmovies.cc 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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