Is hicine.info legit or a scam?
Unauthorized clone of hicine.app promoting free pirated streaming with phishing flags and ad-redirect patterns.
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
Brand impersonation — not the real site
Unauthorized clone of hicine.app promoting free pirated streaming with phishing flags and ad-redirect patterns. 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.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
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
The page presents a single-card layout promoting free access to premium OTT content with no sign-up, a pattern commonly associated with piracy portals, ad-redirect chains, or malware distribution lures. The implausible 'official free streaming' claims and opaque CTA button are notable risk indicators.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsClaim of 'OFFICIAL FREE STREAMING' with access to '20+ OTT platforms completely free' is implausible and characteristic of piracy or ad-redirect lure pages
Prominent 'Click Here' call-to-action button with no destination disclosure is a common pattern used to drive traffic through ad networks or malware redirects
Page content is almost entirely a single centered modal card with minimal surrounding UI, suggesting a landing/redirect page rather than a functional streaming service
Claims of 'No subscription. No sign-up. Instant access' combined with '4K quality' and 'Free forever' are unrealistic promises used to entice clicks
The label 'hicine.app' displayed below the CTA button suggests the modal may be an embed or redirect widget rather than native site content
MT Intelligence
hicine.info is a confirmed clone of the legitimate hicine.app, which explicitly disavows any affiliation with this domain. The page presents implausible claims of free access to 20+ premium OTT platforms without sign-up or subscription, a classic lure pattern used by piracy portals and ad-redirect schemes. Independent trust aggregators assigned it a Trust Score of 0 and flagged it for phishing based on IPQS reports. The visual analysis reveals a single-card modal layout with an opaque 'Click Here' button — a hallmark of malware-distribution and ad-network redirect pages. The domain is 290 days old with hidden WHOIS data and no legitimate business registration, and it loads external domains associated with ad networks and tracking. The combination of clone-site status, phishing flags, implausible free-content claims, and opaque redirect patterns indicates this is a malicious phishing and piracy distribution vector.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for hicine.info, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- hicine.info is a free movie/series/anime streaming site with high traffic (~3M visits/month, primarily India)
- ScamAdviser assigns it a Trust Score of 0, citing IPQS flags for phishing and suspicious activity; summary states "unsure if the website is legit" and "Caution Recommended"
- The claimed "official" Hicine site at hicine.app states that hicine.info (and hicine.net) are unauthorized and not affiliated
- Domain age approximately 290 days (~9-10 months); no public business registration or owner information found (WHOIS hidden)
- No official presence on app stores; distributed as APK for streaming content that aggregates from major OTT platforms without licensing
- urlquery.net has a scan report for the domain; additional low-trust mentions on review aggregators like Scam-Detector
- Instagram and social videos promote it for free 4K streaming but some label it "Dangerous"
- ScamAdviseropen
"IPQS flagged this website for Phishing. IPQS has flagged this website as suspicious. ... we are unsure if the website is legit."
- hicine.appopen
"hicine.app is the only official Hicine website. Sites like hicine.net or hicine.info are unauthorized and not affiliated with us."
- Instagram (Hicine App Review)open
"ScamAdviser flagged hicine.info with a low trust score due to phishing reports by IPQS, noting no official app store presence and potential copyright issues"
hicine.app explicitly warns that hicine.info is an unauthorized copy and not affiliated
Our research found three scam reports and complaints about hicine.info. Independent trust aggregators assigned it a Trust Score of 0 and flagged it for phishing based on IPQS reports, noting 'Caution Recommended' and uncertainty about legitimacy. The official hicine.app website explicitly states that hicine.info and hicine.net are unauthorized and not affiliated with the legitimate service. Scam-report databases document phishing warnings and note the site's lack of official app-store presence and potential copyright issues. No positive reviews were found.
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://hicine.info/
- 2200https://hicine.info/
Server Reputation
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.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with hicine.info
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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags hicine.info as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — hicine.info scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. hicine.info presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 47 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- hicine.info is 9 months old, registered on 8/29/2025 through Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged hicine.info as malicious or suspicious. Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. hicine.info is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- hicine.info 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 15, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around hicine.info 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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