Is hll-tv.com legit or a scam?
A malicious clone of HLTV.org created 7 days ago to harvest Counter-Strike player credentials through deceptive login prompts.
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
Domain was registered only 7 days ago — brand-new sites are higher-risk by default. 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.
No scam visual patterns detected
The page displays a highly professional and functional interface for a well-known esports news site, showing no visual indicators of scam or phishing patterns.
What our vision model saw
6 signalsProfessional layout consistent with a high-traffic esports news and statistics portal
Complex, functional navigation menu with multiple sub-categories
Dynamic content including live match schedules, news feeds, and community forums
Consistent branding for HLTV throughout the page elements
No deceptive urgency tactics, fake trust badges, or suspicious pop-ups detected
Presence of legitimate advertisements and community-driven interaction metrics
MT Intelligence
The site is a pixel-perfect clone of the well-known Counter-Strike news portal HLTV.org, but it is hosted on a typosquatted domain registered just one week ago. Our analysis detected multiple security flags from engines like SOCRadar and Fortinet, which identify the site as a phishing and spam threat. While the visual layout appears professional, it is entirely copied from the original source to deceive users into logging in. Furthermore, the page includes suspicious calls to action like 'Synchronize your in-game settings' and 'Install your pickets,' which are common lures used in gaming-related credential theft. The lack of any legitimate business registration or contact information confirms this is a fraudulent operation.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for hll-tv.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered approximately 7 days ago (as of June 28, 2026)
- Homepage fully clones HLTV.org with identical title "HLTV.org - Official Website :: News and reports about Counter-Strike 2", matching description, CS2 news articles, player rankings, transfers, and live streams section
- Contains suspicious non-gaming elements including "Install your pickets", "+ Synchronize your in-game settings", "elections", and "Final begins SOON" which align with reported Countdown/Urgency scam patterns
- Listed as an active suspected phishing site on PhishTank (submitted June 28, 2026)
- Appears in recent urlscan.io sitemap alongside other scanned domains, indicating security tool scrutiny
- No official business registration, contact details, or legitimate company information identified
- No positive reviews, Trustpilot/ScamAdviser entries, or mentions of legitimacy found
- PhishTankopen
"https://hll-tv.com/ added on Jun 28th 2026 12:21 PM, by tuanphuong, Unknown, ONLINE"
Page title, description, news headlines, rankings, transfers, and forum-style content are copied verbatim from the legitimate HLTV.org Counter-Strike site
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.
- Countdown timer or 'limited time' urgency pressure detected.
- Scam family match: Countdown / Urgency.
- Phone number listed (2014-2025).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 scam-type patterns detected
2 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.
- Domain is a typosquat of hltv.org.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- Domain is a typosquat of hltv.org.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing / data-harvesting.
2 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.
- Domain is a typosquat of hltv.org.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- Domain is a typosquat of hltv.org.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing / data-harvesting.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with hll-tv.com
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 hll-tv.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — hll-tv.com scored 3/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. hll-tv.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 82 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- hll-tv.com is 7 days old, registered on 6/21/2026 through NICENIC INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO., LIMITED. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 2 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged hll-tv.com as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. hll-tv.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- hll-tv.com 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 28, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around hll-tv.com 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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