Possible brand impersonation
Clone of HiAnime anime streaming site flagged on Reddit as fake after original domain issues. 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 hianimez.org legit or a scam?
Clone of HiAnime anime streaming site flagged on Reddit as fake after original domain issues.
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 called Hianime offering subbed and dubbed content. Our fingerprinting confirms it is a direct clone of the known hianime.to domain. A Reddit discussion explicitly warns that hianimez.org is not the real site and should be avoided. No company registration or contact details appear anywhere, which is unusual for a legitimate service. While antivirus scans and the hosting IP show clean results, the combination of cloning and community warnings lowers trust significantly.
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 hianimez.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- hianimez.org presents as 'Hianime' free anime streaming site with sub/dub, HD, no ads/registration claims.
- Reddit thread titled 'Is hianimez.org the real domain of hianime?' with comment calling it a clone after Hanime/HiAnime shutdown.
- Multiple references to hianimez.to, hianimez.is as similar domains with user scripts, scrapers, and uptime checks.
- HiAnime community subreddit warns of fake domains, impersonators, and potential malware on non-official sites.
- No official business registration or company details found for the domain.
- Malware scanner reports for hianimez.org and similar show clean results in available scans.
- Domain age listed as 418 days; active anime content mirroring popular titles like One Piece, Solo Leveling.
- reddit.comopen
"Hanime shut down , anything claiming to be them is a clone site."
Reddit discussions and community posts indicate hianimez.org and variants like hianimez.to are clones/fakes of the original HiAnime site, which has faced shutdown issues; official domains referenced as hianime.to or hianime.me.
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://hianimez.org/
- 2200https://hianimez.org/
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 hianimez.org 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.
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 hianimez.org 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.
- hianimez.org currently scores 48/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- Yes. hianimez.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 68 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- hianimez.org is 1.1 years old, registered on 4/10/2025 through Spaceship, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 95 antivirus engines in our malware network report hianimez.org as clean.
- No. hianimez.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- hianimez.org 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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