Is malhanga.com safe?
http://malhanga.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Malhanga is a long-running Mozambique-focused link portal with clean current checks but stale antivirus phishing flags
Malhanga presents itself as a personal portal and digital library about Mozambique, with a news headline block and a digital book library, credited to Magno Antunes. The domain is very old, registered in 2002, and current checks show a valid encrypted connection and no browser threat feed warning. However, a saved antivirus observation records three independent engines flagging the domain as malicious or phishing in historical reports, which is the main reason this site is rated Low Risk rather than Safe. The site's own pages were reviewed and show no checkout, no account creation, and no commercial funnel; the only monetization visible is third-party advertising.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 72/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. 1 finding pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Decisive3 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 8944 days old, consistent with a long-running personal portal.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
Malhanga presents itself as a personal portal and digital library about Mozambique, with a news headline block and a digital book library, credited to Magno Antunes. The domain is very old, registered in 2002, and current checks show a valid encrypted connection and no browser threat feed warning. However, a saved antivirus observation records three independent engines flagging the domain as malicious or phishing in historical reports, which is the main reason this site is rated Low Risk rather than Safe. The site's own pages were reviewed and show no checkout, no account creation, and no commercial funnel; the only monetization visible is third-party advertising.
A personal Mozambique portal, not a shop or service
The homepage is headed with a Mozambique news label and includes a section described as a digital book library, indicating the site is a content aggregator rather than a store or login service. The footer credits the copyright to Magno Antunes, which is the only operator identity disclosed on the page.
The page links out to a long list of external news and media outlets, including Portuguese and international titles such as Jornal de Negócios, Observador, SIC Notícias, RTP, Expresso, Mail Online, The Sun, Mirror and El Confidencial. These are cross-site links to editorial destinations, not commercial checkout paths, and the link graph shows no affiliate or monetized relationship attached to them.
Clean current checks, but unresolved historical phishing flags
Current technical checks are reassuring: the browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection. The domain is also very old, registered in 2002, which is consistent with a long-standing personal project rather than a throwaway scam domain.
Against that, a saved antivirus observation records three independent engine families reporting an adverse result, naming alphaMountain.ai, Fortinet and Webroot, with the detection described as real but potentially stale. Our review does not explain why those engines flagged the domain, and no current page content shows a phishing form or credential-harvesting flow. This unresolved historical flag is the reason the site is not rated Safe.
What a visitor actually experiences
A visitor arriving at Malhanga sees a news and library portal with outbound links to external media sites. There is no visible checkout, no account registration, and no request for payment or personal data on the reviewed page content.
The site carries third-party advertising, including Google AdSense served via cross-domain scripts, and the footer identifies the operator as Magno Antunes. The advertising is the only monetization visible in the reviewed evidence, and no affiliate or transaction relationship is attached to the outbound links.
Why the score is 72
The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
3/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from October 20, 2026 - stale
3 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 3
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| alphaMountain.aiMalicious | phishing |
| FortinetMalicious | phishing |
| WebrootMalicious | malicious |
All 93 engine results
- alphaMountain.ai - phishing - Malicious
- Fortinet - phishing - Malicious
- Webroot - Malicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiPhishing
- WebrootPhishing and Other Frauds
- BitDefendersearchengines
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekersearch engines and portals
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
Malhanga Home Page
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Malhanga Home Page
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Malhanga Home Page
- Meta description
Malhanga Home Page, Biblioteca Moçambique, Música Moçambicana, Música Francesa, Música Italiana, Mapa de Maputo com o nome das antigas ruas e avenidas do tempo colonial, Jornais e Revistas, Videos "no outro lado do tempo", Videos anteriores a 1975, etc.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Malhanga Home Page
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
1 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 013 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
- 02The registrable domain is 8944 days old, consistent with a long-running personal portal.
- 03The browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
Web research findings
Independent findings for malhanga.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for malhanga.com. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainmalhanga.com
- Redirects tomalhanga.com
- Hosted byDream Fusion - IT Services, Lda
- Referencespagead2.googlesyndication.com · maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com
Domain Timeline
- Apr 27, 2002Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 24 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 22, 2026Saved security review — Rated Low Risk
This saved scan found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
malhanga.com has operated for years and this review found no material threat — a long track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for *.malhanga.com.
Analytics and ads
- Google AdSense
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://malhanga.com/
- 2206https://malhanga.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
suspiciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
3 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 3 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 20, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result3 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 20, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is malhanga.com a scam or is it safe?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Malhanga is a long-running Mozambique-focused link portal with clean current checks but stale antivirus phishing flags
Malhanga presents itself as a personal portal and digital library about Mozambique, with a news headline block and a digital book library, credited to Magno Antunes. The domain is very old, registered in 2002, and current checks show a valid encrypted connection and no browser threat feed warning. However, a saved antivirus observation records three independent engines flagging the domain as malicious or phishing in historical reports, which is the main reason this site is rated Low Risk rather than Safe. The site's own pages were reviewed and show no checkout, no account creation, and no commercial funnel; the only monetization visible is third-party advertising.
09 · Community
Community
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