Warning signs detected
Free movie streaming site with app downloads flagged as suspicious by multiple trust checkers due to hidden ownership and low domain age. Several risk indicators suggest caution. This site might be legitimate — but treat it as unverified until you can independently confirm.
Is moviebox.ac legit or a scam?
Free movie streaming site with app downloads flagged as suspicious by multiple trust checkers due to hidden ownership and low domain age.
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 page presents itself as a MovieBox streaming service offering free HD movies and TV shows while promoting APK downloads. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned clean results with no malicious detections. However, the evidence package shows independent review aggregator and Gridinsoft both assign very low trust scores, citing hidden WHOIS data and an 8-month domain age. The site loads content from multiple external CDNs and is linked in malware reports for its associated app. No business registration or positive reviews were located, and Reddit discussions mention functionality and piracy concerns around similar MovieBox domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for moviebox.ac, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain moviebox.ac listed as an 'official' MovieBox site in Instagram reels alongside movie-box.tv and moviebox.biz.
- ScamAdviser assigns very low trust score to moviebox.ac, citing hidden WHOIS owner identity.
- Gridinsoft flags moviebox.ac as suspicious (35/100), notes domain age of approximately 8 months.
- moviebox.ac referenced in malware analysis report for MovieBox Premium APK, with connections to app domains and assetlinks.json.
- Page title and description match free online movie/TV streaming service promoting app downloads.
- Related MovieBox sites and apps frequently discussed on Reddit for functionality issues, antivirus flags, and piracy concerns.
- No direct user scam complaints or positive reviews specifically mentioning moviebox.ac found.
independent review aggregator reports a very low trust score for moviebox.ac and warns users of a strong likelihood of scam activity due to hidden ownership. Gridinsoft assigns a 35/100 trust score and labels it a suspicious website with an 8-month domain age. Related MovieBox domains appear in malware reports for the Premium APK and are discussed on Reddit for antivirus flags and piracy issues, though no direct user complaints about moviebox.ac itself were located.
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 email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (201.79086).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://moviebox.ac/
- 2200https://moviebox.ac/
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 malware / drive-by / cracked app.
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 malware / drive-by / cracked app.
Possible malware risk
Signals suggest this page may deliver malicious files or exploit the browser.
- Treat moviebox.ac as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- If you downloaded or ran a file from here
Disconnect the device from the internet, run a full scan with a reputable antivirus (Malwarebytes, ESET, Bitdefender), and consider a second-opinion scanner. Change passwords on any account you used from the device afterwards — ideally from a different device.
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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 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 marked moviebox.ac as suspicious. Several warning signs were detected; it may still turn out legitimate, but you should verify it through independent channels before trusting it with money or credentials.
- moviebox.ac currently scores 53/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- Yes. moviebox.ac presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01, expiring in 172 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report moviebox.ac as clean.
- No. moviebox.ac is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- moviebox.ac resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, 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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