Brand impersonation — not the real site
Adult video piracy mirror site that replaced a seized domain, with one malware engine detection but no financial scam reports. 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.
Is missav.ws legit or a scam?
Adult video piracy mirror site that replaced a seized domain, with one malware engine detection but no financial scam reports.
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 functions as a high-traffic JAV streaming platform that mirrors content from a previously seized domain. Our fingerprinting directly links it as a clone of missav.com with ongoing domain rotation to evade enforcement. One engine in our antivirus network marked it malicious while the rest stayed clean and major browser lists raised no alerts. No business registration appears in searches and contact routes to Telegram instead of standard channels. High global traffic and positive mentions on adult directories indicate real usage rather than a throwaway scam operation.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
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 screenshot shows a fully rendered adult video streaming site with standard navigation, search, and video thumbnails; no scam indicators visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for missav.ws, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- missav.ws is the active domain for the MissAV JAV streaming platform following seizure of missav.com and thisav.com on Jan 13, 2025 by Will Co. Ltd (FANZA) via US court order for copyright infringement.
- Domain registered June 28, 2024; expires June 28, 2026 per Scamdoc WHOIS data.
- Site self-describes as 'Best Japan AV porn site, free forever, high speed, no lag, over 100000 videos, daily update'.
- High traffic: ~389M visits in April 2026 per Semrush; ranked among top sites globally.
- Multiple sources confirm it as a piracy/mirror site with ongoing domain hopping (e.g., to .ai, .live) due to enforcement actions.
- Scam checkers (ScamAdviser, Checksite.ai) rate it as likely safe/legit for access with valid SSL; no financial scam reports found.
- Contact form redirects to Telegram; no standard business transparency.
missav.ws is the replacement domain after missav.com seizure in Jan 2025; redirects and mirrors the same JAV piracy platform.
Our research located mentions on review sites describing the site as a replacement domain for a Japanese adult video platform after earlier domains were seized over copyright claims. Two sources rated access as safe or average with no financial scam reports. Positive notes appear on adult content directories regarding traffic and functionality. No business registration records were located.
Scam Network Intelligence
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 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 a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- 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 a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with missav.ws
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.
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 missav.ws as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — missav.ws scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. missav.ws presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 31 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 1 out of 91 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged missav.ws as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. missav.ws is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- missav.ws 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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