Possible brand impersonation
Unofficial clone of HiAnime anime streaming site flagged by its own community as not legitimate. The page looks styled like a known brand but may not be authentic. Check the URL carefully and navigate to the brand's real site before signing in or paying.
Is hianime.cv legit or a scam?
Unofficial clone of HiAnime anime streaming site flagged by its own community as not legitimate.
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
MT Intelligence
The page presents itself as a free HD anime streaming platform with the same branding and content focus as the original HiAnime service. Our fingerprinting shows it is a direct clone of hianime.to. Reddit threads from the official community explicitly state that hianime.cv is not an included domain and recommend avoiding it. The domain is 455 days old with no business registration or contact information found. Antivirus and IP checks returned clean, yet the lack of official affiliation creates a clear risk for users seeking the real service.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
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
Clean, fully rendered anime streaming landing page with modern dark theme and no visible scam indicators such as fake badges, urgency timers, or intrusive elements.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for hianime.cv, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain hianime.cv registered March 6, 2025 via Dynadot (expires March 6, 2026); ~15 months old.
- Reddit r/HiAnimeZone explicitly states: 'Hianime.cv is NOT included. It is not our domain.'
- Scamadviser rates hianime.cv as 'very likely not a scam but legit and reliable.'
- Gridinsoft reports 'strong legitimacy signals' and 'low-risk verdict' for hianime.cv.
- Site presents as free HD anime streaming platform with title matching hianime.to/.tv mirrors.
- Multiple sources note main HiAnime domains (.to/.tv) as down or shut down; .cv appears as alternative/mirror.
- No business registration, company ownership, or formal complaints identified in searches.
- Reddit r/HiAnimeZoneopen
"Hianime. cv is NOT included . It is not our domain. Our real proxy domains will always be in Hianime.tv . You may try one of the domains below."
- Reddit r/HiAnimeZoneopen
"It is not official therefore we cannot guarantee the safety of it . I do not recommend using that website. Use any other domain listed on ..."
Reddit community (r/HiAnimeZone) states it is not an official domain; mirrors anime streaming content of HiAnime sites.
Reddit threads in r/HiAnimeZone explicitly state that hianime.cv is not an official domain and recommend using only listed domains on hianime.tv. Two third-party review sites gave positive legitimacy scores, but no business registration records were located.
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://hianime.cv/
- 2200https://hianime.cv/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 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.
0 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.
Possible brand impersonation
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Treat hianime.cv as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- 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.
Trust History
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 from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review marked hianime.cv 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.
- hianime.cv currently scores 54/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- Yes. hianime.cv presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 71 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- hianime.cv is 1.2 years old, registered on 3/6/2025 through netim. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 91 antivirus engines in our malware network report hianime.cv as clean.
- No. hianime.cv is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- hianime.cv 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.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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