Critical risk detected
Long-running illegal streaming site offering pirated movies with known pop-up and malware risks, operating as a clone of kino.to. Our security stack flagged multiple threat indicators on this website. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Is kinox.to legit or a scam?
Long-running illegal streaming site offering pirated movies with known pop-up and malware risks, operating as a clone of kino.to.
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 movie and series streaming platform with a login form and extensive listings of recent films. Its domain is over 14 years old and the hosting IP shows no abuse reports, yet Wikipedia explicitly documents it as an illegal video-on-demand service distributing copyrighted content. Evidence includes eight complaints, two scam-related mentions highlighting frequent pop-ups and virus risks, and confirmation it is a direct clone of the earlier kino.to site. No legitimate business registration exists and the page loads external scripts from multiple CDNs while using a free-mail contact address. These factors together indicate high risk despite the clean technical scan on the IP itself.
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 kinox.to, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain kinox.to registered via .to registrar (Tonga); WHOIS shows no owner details
- Active illegal German-language streaming site since ~July 2011 per Wikipedia
- 4.98M visits in April 2026 per Semrush; ranked #552 in DE
- Frequently discussed on Reddit as piracy/streaming link aggregator (not direct host)
- Multiple articles note ad/pop-up issues, malware risks, and ISP warnings in Germany/EU
- Successor to Kino.to; involved in past disputes with other clones like Video2k.to
- Trustpilot page exists with 9 reviews; no detailed excerpts available in searches
- de.wikipedia.orgopen
"Kinox.to ist eine deutschsprachige Video-on-Demand-Website, die urheberrechtlich geschützte Kinofilme, Serien und Dokumentationen illegal zugänglich macht."
- fastestvpn.comopen
"Kinox.to is a mess in 2026. Half the time, the site is down, the other half you’re closing 20 pop-ups and praying you didn’t just download a virus."
- techpoint.africaopen
"Kinox.to has long been my TV pastime platform for streaming movies and series in German because it offers various decent international films dubbed in the local language."
Successor/clone to previously shut-down Kino.to site; launched with similar design and database
Wikipedia documents kinox.to as an illegal German streaming site for copyrighted films and series. fastestvpn.com reports frequent downtime, pop-ups, and malware risks. Eight complaints were found alongside mentions on Reddit as a piracy link aggregator. One positive review highlights dubbed content but does not address legality or safety.
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 email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- Contact address uses a free-mail provider (gmail.com) — unusual for a real business.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (01.06.2026).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://kinox.to/
- 2200https://kinox.to/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 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 malware / drive-by / cracked app.
- 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 malware / drive-by / cracked app.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
Malware distribution detected
Signals suggest this page may deliver malicious files or exploit the browser.
- Do not interact with kinox.to
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- If you downloaded or ran a file from here
Disconnect the device from the internet, run a full scan with a reputable antivirus (Malwarebytes, ESET, Bitdefender), and consider a second-opinion scanner. Change passwords on any account you used from the device afterwards — ideally from a different device.
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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 kinox.to as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — kinox.to scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. kinox.to presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 67 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- kinox.to is 14.9 years old, registered on 6/26/2011 through Government of Kingdom of Tonga. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. kinox.to is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- kinox.to 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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