Is manba.cc safe?
http://manba.cc/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 92 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Manba.cc is a long-standing Shopify storefront for a real gaming controller, but it hides its operator contact details and carries a stale antivirus flag.
Manba.cc presents itself as the online store of Manba Technology Co., Ltd., a company that says it was established in 2016 and sells gaming accessories such as controllers and charging stations. The store runs on a standard hosted cart with a visible Checkout button, and independent hardware coverage confirms the Manba One controller is a real product rather than a phantom listing. The domain is roughly four and a half years old, which is well beyond the lifespan of most throwaway fake shops, and the connection is encrypted. Against that, the site publishes no phone number and no postal address, so a buyer has no clear route to escalate a problem, and a saved antivirus observation records one engine flagging the host as malicious and another as suspicious. The overall picture is a genuine commercial store with weak operator transparency and an unresolved security flag, which places it in the low-risk band rather than the safe one.
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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. 4 findings pulled the score down; 4 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Strong1 independent antivirus family 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.
- ModerateThe store's contact is a generic service@ mailbox on its own domain, a pattern shared by fake-shop networks and some small legitimate shops alike.
- MinorThe captured page lists no phone number, limiting a customer's escalation options.
- MinorThe captured page shows no operator postal address, so there is no published physical location for recourse.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable domain is about 1,782 days old, far longer than typical transient fake-shop domains.
- SupportsA third-party gaming hardware review describes the Manba One V2 controller positively, confirming the product is real and physically reviewed.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection to the site.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the host.
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
Manba.cc presents itself as the online store of Manba Technology Co., Ltd., a company that says it was established in 2016 and sells gaming accessories such as controllers and charging stations. The store runs on a standard hosted cart with a visible Checkout button, and independent hardware coverage confirms the Manba One controller is a real product rather than a phantom listing. The domain is roughly four and a half years old, which is well beyond the lifespan of most throwaway fake shops, and the connection is encrypted. Against that, the site publishes no phone number and no postal address, so a buyer has no clear route to escalate a problem, and a saved antivirus observation records one engine flagging the host as malicious and another as suspicious. The overall picture is a genuine commercial store with weak operator transparency and an unresolved security flag, which places it in the low-risk band rather than the safe one.
A real product store, not a phantom shop
The site's own About text states that Manba Technology Co., Ltd. was established in 2016 and has grown into a supplier of gaming accessories including game controllers, switch docks and VR charging stations. That is a concrete, checkable product claim rather than a vague lifestyle pitch.
Independent coverage backs the product up: a third-party gaming hardware review describes the Manba One V2 as a controller the reviewer enjoyed using, with a good assortment of features. A store selling an item that independent reviewers have actually handled is not the profile of a fake shop that ships nothing.
The purchase path is a normal hosted-cart flow: the page carries a Checkout control that leads to the store's own cart, and the site also runs an email signup form for its newsletter. There is no cross-domain order handoff or off-site payment page in the evidence.
Weak contact transparency and a generic mailbox
The captured page lists no phone number and no operator postal address. A customer who needs to chase a delivery, a return or a warranty has no published escalation route beyond email, which materially weakens their position if something goes wrong.
The contact address is a generic service@ mailbox on the store's own domain. That pattern is shared by many small legitimate shops as well as by fake-shop networks, so it is a caution flag about how the operation is staffed rather than proof of deception on its own.
The site also runs a 'Spin to Win' pop-up inviting visitors to enter an email address for a chance at discounts and a mystery prize. Collecting emails behind a prize wheel is a marketing tactic, not a payment trap, but it is worth noting that the incentive is a chance rather than a guaranteed reward.
Mixed technical signals on a mature domain
The registrable domain is about 1,782 days old, roughly four and a half years. That longevity is a meaningful counterweight to the fake-shop profile, since transient scam storefronts rarely survive that long under one name.
The saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the host. Those are clean baseline results, but they only mean no detections were recorded at the time of the check.
A saved antivirus observation records one engine flagging the host as malicious and another as suspicious. The observation is stale, so the timing should be confirmed before treating it as a current verdict, but it is a real adverse signal that keeps this site out of the safe band.
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
2/ 92
detectionsSaved analysis from October 2, 2026 - stale
2 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 1
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 92
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| Forcepoint ThreatSeekerMalicious | malicious |
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 92 engine results
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Malicious
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- 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
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - 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
- 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
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekersuspicious content
- Googleshopping
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
Spin to Win! Enter your email for the chance to win big discounts and even a Mystery Prize.
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Spin to Win! Enter your email for the chance to win big discounts and even a Mystery Prize.
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
MANBA Gaming
- Meta description
The world's first gaming controller with a 2-inch screen: Enjoy your gaming without the need for apps and unleash your potential without any distractions.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/about-usRead
- Terms/policies/terms-of-serviceRead
- Refund / returns policy/policies/refund-policyRead
- Shipping policy/policies/shipping-policyRead
- Support / FAQ/pages/ask-for-helpRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
MANBA Gaming
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
1 external finding was saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 6 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
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01A third-party gaming hardware review describes the Manba One V2 controller positively, confirming the product is real and physically reviewed.
- 02The registrable domain is about 1,782 days old, far longer than typical transient fake-shop domains.
- 03The saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection to the site.
Risk pattern correlation
Web research findings
Independent findings for manba.cc, 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.
- GBATempopen
"The Manba One V2 is a fantastic controller and one I've enjoyed using immensely. With a great assortment of features in a stylish package, it's a controller I can"
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.
- Domainmanba.cc
- Redirects towww.manba.cc
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencesgoogletagmanager.com · cdn.shopify.com
Domain Timeline
- Dec 9, 2021Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 4 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 26, 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.
manba.cc 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.
- No phone number listed on the captured page.
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (service@manba.cc).
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Certificate issued for www.manba.cc.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
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://manba.cc/
- 2301https://manba.cc/
- 3200https://www.manba.cc/
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.
1 independent antivirus family 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
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The store's contact is a generic service@ mailbox on its own domain, a pattern shared by fake-shop networks and some small legitimate shops alike. · The captured page lists no phone number, limiting a customer's escalation options.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 2 of 92 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 26, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 26, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 26, 2026 |
| Independent research | 1 independent finding was saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 26, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result2 of 92 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 26, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 26, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 26, 2026
- Independent research
- Result1 independent finding was saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 26, 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 manba.cc a scam or is it safe?
Is manba.cc safe to use?
Has manba.cc been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is manba.cc on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Manba.cc is a long-standing Shopify storefront for a real gaming controller, but it hides its operator contact details and carries a stale antivirus flag.
Manba.cc presents itself as the online store of Manba Technology Co., Ltd., a company that says it was established in 2016 and sells gaming accessories such as controllers and charging stations. The store runs on a standard hosted cart with a visible Checkout button, and independent hardware coverage confirms the Manba One controller is a real product rather than a phantom listing. The domain is roughly four and a half years old, which is well beyond the lifespan of most throwaway fake shops, and the connection is encrypted. Against that, the site publishes no phone number and no postal address, so a buyer has no clear route to escalate a problem, and a saved antivirus observation records one engine flagging the host as malicious and another as suspicious. The overall picture is a genuine commercial store with weak operator transparency and an unresolved security flag, which places it in the low-risk band rather than the safe one.
09 · Community
Community
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