Brand impersonation — not the real site
Domain was registered only 0 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.
Is movie152.com legit or a scam?
Zero-day clone of 123Movies using SEO-stuffed text and a suspicious redirect button to lure users into ad-heavy or malicious streams.
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
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual 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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The site leverages a well-known piracy brand to attract users, utilizing SEO-heavy text and a suspicious redirect button typical of sites that host malicious advertisements or unwanted software.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsSite uses the branding of 123Movies, a known piracy-related brand.
Keyword-stuffed text block designed for search engine manipulation rather than users.
Minimal functional interface consisting primarily of a search bar and SEO text.
Prominent 'Use the old 123movies? Click here' button likely leading to ad-heavy or malicious redirects.
Lack of legitimate corporate information, terms of service, or contact details.
Intelligence
The domain movie152.com was registered on 2026-07-07, making it literally hours old. The page copies the 123Movies name and description verbatim while offering free movie streaming without any signup. Visual analysis shows keyword-stuffed SEO text and a prominent button that likely leads to ad-heavy or malicious redirects. No business registration, email, address, or terms of service appear anywhere on the site. Our antivirus network returned clean results, but the combination of brand impersonation, zero domain age, and missing corporate information outweighs that single clean signal.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for movie152.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain movie152.com registered 2026-07-07 (0 days old as of July 08, 2026).
- Site title: "123movies - Watch Free Movies Online | 123 movies"; description promotes free streaming of movies/series without signup.
- Original 123Movies network ceased operations in 2018; numerous mirror and clone sites continue using the brand name.
- No specific scam reports, Trustpilot reviews, ScamAdviser scores, or Reddit complaints found referencing movie152.com.
- 123Movies clones generally associated with illegal streaming, heavy ads, pop-ups, and malware risks per multiple sources.
- No business registration, ownership, or company details identified for the domain.
- Domain not listed in any 2026 123Movies mirror site compilations searched.
Page title and description directly replicate 123Movies branding; original 123Movies network shut down in 2018 with numerous mirror/clone sites emerging since.
Domain Timeline
- Jul 7, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 0 days old today.
- Jul 8, 2026Latest security review — Flagged as dangerous
This scan re-ran every check; the current findings are detailed above.
movie152.com was registered very recently and is already flagged. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, and a young domain with active threat signals warrants extra caution.
Threat Detection
Scam Network
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
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.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedContact 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 postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (2026 123).
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Trust History
What to do
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with movie152.com
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.
Safer Alternatives
Trying to watch something? Use a safe option instead
Looking for something to watch? These are legal, malware-free ways to stream — several have free, ad-supported tiers, so there's no need to risk a sketchy pirate site.
Anime, subbed & dubbed — free ad-supported tier.
Thousands of movies & shows, completely free (ads).
Free live channels and on-demand, no account needed.
Large catalogue incl. anime; paid subscription.
Movies, TV & anime; paid / Prime membership.
Suggestions for safety only — not endorsements. Always verify the address bar before signing in or paying, even on well-known sites.
Final Verdict
This is a brand-new clone of the defunct 123Movies piracy site. The domain was registered today and carries none of the contact or business details a legitimate streaming service would have.
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 movie152.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — movie152.com scored 16/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. movie152.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 89 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- movie152.com is 0 days old, registered on 7/7/2026 through Gransy, s.r.o.. 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 movie152.com as clean.
- No. movie152.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- movie152.com 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 8, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around movie152.com 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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