Brand impersonation — not the real site
Unverified clone of the defunct hianime.to anime piracy site carrying phishing and malware warnings from news and community reports. 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 hianime.dk legit or a scam?
Unverified clone of the defunct hianime.to anime piracy site carrying phishing and malware warnings from news and community reports.
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 site presents itself as a free anime streaming platform with the same branding and content as the original HiAnime service that shut down in March 2026. Evidence shows it is explicitly identified as an unauthorized mirror by YouTube investigations and Outlook India reporting, both warning of phishing or malware risks on .dk clones. No business registration exists and the domain carries no traffic ranking, consistent with short-lived copycat operations. While browser blocklists remain clean and the hosting IP shows zero abuse reports, the confirmed clone status and community warnings outweigh these neutral signals. The combination of impersonation, lack of legitimacy, and direct scam alerts leads to a malicious classification.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for hianime.dk, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- hianime.dk hosts identical content and branding to original HiAnime piracy streaming site (page title/description match)
- Original HiAnime (hianime.to) shut down ~March 13, 2026 with message 'It's time to say goodbye'
- Multiple sources (YouTube, news) explicitly warn hianime.dk and similar .dk/.al domains are unverified clones with phishing/malware risks
- Users on Facebook/YouTube/Instagram reference hianime.dk as 'the new site' post-shutdown
- Original HiAnime described as major anime piracy platform (~15% US anime piracy, millions of users) per analyses
- No official business registration or legitimate company info found for hianime.dk or original
- Reddit/Trustpilot discuss ad/malware issues on HiAnime family sites; community notes no official Instagram or donation requests
- YouTube (HiAnime Is Back... Or Is It a Trap?)open
"DK versions are popping up — and none of them are verified yet. In this video, we break down what’s actually happening, why these mirrors could be risky, and how phishing sites take advantage of situations like this."
- Outlook India (respawn.outlookindia.com)open
"all legitimate domains are inactive, with warnings issued against false clones (such as HiAnime.dk,.se, and.cv) suspected of phishing or malware distribution."
Multiple sources identify hianime.dk as unverified mirror/clone of original HiAnime (hianime.to) which shut down March 2026; original had goodbye message and community warnings against new domains
YouTube and Outlook India both flag hianime.dk and similar .dk mirrors as unverified clones carrying phishing or malware risks after the original hianime.to shutdown. Community posts on Facebook and YouTube casually reference the domain as the new site, but no official registration or positive trust signals were located.
Scam Network Intelligence
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.dk/
- 2200https://hianime.dk/
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.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with hianime.dk
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 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 flags hianime.dk as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — hianime.dk scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. hianime.dk presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 83 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. hianime.dk is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- hianime.dk 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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