Is movie-hd.live legit or a scam?
A 3-day-old clone of the shut-down FMovies brand that lacks operator transparency and carries high risks of malicious advertising.
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
Brand impersonation — not the real site
Domain was registered only 3 days ago — brand-new sites are higher-risk by default. 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.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
The domain was registered just 3 days ago, which is a major red flag for any site claiming to be an established streaming platform. It explicitly impersonates FMovies, a brand that was officially shut down by international authorities for copyright infringement. Our analysis shows the site uses a low-trust .live extension and provides no physical address, phone number, or official contact email. While no antivirus engines have flagged the URL yet, the combination of its extreme youth and its status as a brand clone indicates a high risk to users. Sites like this often monetize through aggressive, malicious advertising or by harvesting user data.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for movie-hd.live, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain is only 3 days old (registered approximately June 29, 2026).
- Site presents itself as FMovies/FMovies.to, a well-known pirate streaming brand shut down by Vietnamese authorities and ACE in August 2024 for massive copyright infringement.
- Page explicitly acknowledges the original FMovies shutdown and states that 'several mirror sites continue to operate, mimicking the original platform's functionality.'
- Disclaimer on site: 'This site does not store any files on its server. All contents are provided by non-affiliated third parties.'
- Content warns of safety risks on FMovies/mirror sites including malware, intrusive ads, and phishing; recommends ad-blocker, antivirus, and VPN.
- No reviews, scam reports, Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, or Reddit mentions found specifically for movie-hd.live.
- No business registration, contact information, or verifiable operator details located.
Page title and content heavily impersonate the defunct FMovies brand, using 'Fmovies - Watch HD Movies Online Free F movies | FMovies.to' and referencing the original site's 2016 launch, 2024 shutdown by authorities, and ongoing mirrors. Disclaimer states it does not host files.
Scam Network Intelligence
Antivirus Engines
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 contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://movie-hd.live/
- 2200https://movie-hd.live/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
1 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.
1 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 movie-hd.live
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.
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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags movie-hd.live as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — movie-hd.live scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. movie-hd.live presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 86 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- movie-hd.live is 3 days old, registered on 6/29/2026 through NameCheap, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report movie-hd.live as clean.
- No. movie-hd.live is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- movie-hd.live 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on July 2, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around movie-hd.live have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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