SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

Security Review

Is lunarscans.org legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 73/100

Scanlation site offering free manga and anime with a clean 3-year domain history and no scam reports found.

lunarscans.orgScanned 10d ago
0
Trust score
SAFE
Heuristics 75·MT 72
Category tags
mangascanlation75% MT confidence
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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
Data unavailable
Domain Age
3 years old
Registered Mar 18, 2023
MT Intelligence
Safe
Low likelihood · 75% confidence

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust72/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The site presents as a simple dark-themed page with buttons linking to free manga, anime, and novel reading, consistent with a scanlation group. Strongest positive signal is the domain age of over three years combined with zero scam reports or complaints in our research. Supporting signals include a clean hosting IP with minimal abuse history and two positive mentions on independent review sites and Reddit. The low-effort visual layout and lack of traffic indexing lower confidence slightly but do not indicate malice. No login forms, redirects, or malicious code patterns were detected.
Full dossier
Analysis complete

Page Content

Minimal dark-themed layout with five large buttons for free manga, anime, and novel reading plus a privacy policy link. No contact details, forms, or promotional overlays present.

Infrastructure

Valid SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt, hosting IP shows zero abuse score, and no redirects or external malicious domains loaded beyond standard analytics.

Domain History

Domain registered 1164 days ago through Dynadot with no privacy protection; associated with the Lunar Scans scanlation group on manga platforms.

Web Reputation

No scam reports or complaints located; two positive references found describing the site as legitimate for early manhwa releases.

Risk Factors
3
  • Page uses a low-effort template with placeholder elements and no visible business contact information.
  • Not indexed in global traffic rankings, indicating very low visibility.
  • Offers unofficial free access to copyrighted manga and anime content.
Positive Signals
4
  • Domain is over three years old with consistent history tied to a known scanlation group.
  • Hosting IP has a clean abuse score of 0/100.
  • Independent review sites and Reddit users describe the site positively with no scam mentions.
  • No malware detections, phishing flags, or malicious scripts reported.
AI Recommendation
The site appears safe for casual browsing of its manga content. Avoid entering personal details or downloading files from any linked external pages.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Website Preview

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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.

60
/ 100
High visual risk

Visual red flags detected in the screenshot

Page shows a low-effort dark template with generic free-content buttons and placeholder side shapes. No major brand cloning, trust seals, timers, or overlays are visible.

Visual risk60/100

What our vision model saw

3 signals

Dark-themed page with five large centered buttons promising 'READ FREE MANGA ONLINE', 'WATCH 9ANIME FREE', 'WATCH FREE ANIME', 'READ FULL NOVEL ONLINE', and 'FREE ONLINE READING'

Blurred solid blue rounded rectangles flanking both sides of the button stack, resembling placeholder or incomplete UI elements

Minimal layout containing only a domain header, 'Related Searches:' label, and 'Privacy policy' footer link

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for lunarscans.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Domain age
3.2 yrs
Registered Mar 2023
Business registration
No public record found
Could not match the site to a registered company — common for small sites.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
2 positive
Key findings
7 headline facts from open-web research
  • Domain lunarscans.org associated with Lunar Scans scanlation group on MangaDex (adult/Korean manhwa projects).
  • GitHub issue (Aug 2025) reports Lunar Scans source website as closed/down.
  • Reddit users reference lunarscans.org positively for early manhwa/pornhwa releases.
  • Scamadviser checks on ww16.lunarscans.org and ww25.lunarscans.org conclude the site is legit/safe.
  • Site mentioned in Hakuneko GitHub request (2023) as https://lunarscan.org (note singular spelling variant).
  • No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews located in searches.
  • Domain age given as 1164 days (~3.2 years); traffic analytics exist for similar lunarscan.org.
Positive reviews (2)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • Scamadviseropen

    "In summary, we think ww16.lunarscans.org is legit and safe for consumers to access."

  • Reddit (r/AnimeFunny)open

    "Lunarscans.org is a good site."

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above
Our research located two positive mentions on independent review sites and Reddit describing lunarscans.org as a legitimate scanlation site for manga reading, with no scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews found anywhere.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

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.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No phone number listed on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age3 years old
RegistrarDynadot Inc
RegisteredMar 18, 2023
ExpiresMar 18, 2027
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · E7
ExpiresAug 2, 2026 (67d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingCloudflare, Inc.
Server locationUS

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file1
ISPCloudflare, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Still, stay alert

No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.

  • Double-check the exact URL in your address bar

    Confirm you are actually on lunarscans.org and not a lookalike like l-unarscans.org.com or an IDN homoglyph.

  • Use a password manager

    Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.

  • Discuss this site on the forum

    If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.

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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
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AbuseIPDB
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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 found no threat indicators on lunarscans.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.

Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·lunarscans.org
SAFE

Lunarscans.org is a scanlation site for free manga and manhwa reading. Our analysis finds it safe due to a 3-year-old domain, clean hosting IP, and positive mentions on review platforms with zero scam reports. Visit only if comfortable with unofficial content sources.

The site appears safe for casual browsing of its manga content. Avoid entering personal details or downloading files from any linked external pages.

AV engines
MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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