Brand impersonation — not the real site
Clone of moviesda.io.in offering pirated Tamil and 18+ movie downloads on a 4-month-old domain flagged by multiple trust scanners. 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 moviesda18.com legit or a scam?
Clone of moviesda.io.in offering pirated Tamil and 18+ movie downloads on a 4-month-old domain flagged by multiple trust scanners.
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 presents itself as a free movie download portal focused on Tamil full movies and adult content but is explicitly identified as a clone of moviesda.io.in with redirects to other moviesda variants. The domain is only 123 days old with no established business registration or positive reviews. Independent security reports highlight low trust scores, blacklist detections, and distribution of illegal pirated material. Clean browser blocklists and valid SSL do not outweigh the cloning evidence and scam signals. Visual capture failed due to slow rendering, leaving the page analysis inconclusive but not changing the overall risk assessment.
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 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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
We could not capture a fully-rendered screenshot of this page; visual analysis is inconclusive.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for moviesda18.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered January 25, 2026 (age ~4 months / 123 days); registrar Dynadot Inc.
- Redirects to moviesda30.com; related domains include moviesda17.com, moviesda19.com, moviesda.io.in, moviesda.top.
- Gridinsoft trust score 24/100 with 2 blacklist detections; Scamadviser trust score 0 and flags illegal/pirated content.
- Site content: Tamil full movies download, 1080p HD, 18+ adult movies; classified under Bollywood & South Asian Films.
- No user complaints, reviews, or Reddit discussions specifically about moviesda18.com found in searches.
- Instagram/Facebook posts link to the site for movie downloads; traffic signals in India per Semrush/SimilarWeb.
- SSL valid (Google Trust Services); hosted on Cloudflare; young domain with some traffic but no established reviews.
- Gridinsoftopen
"Suspicious Website This site is classified as Suspicious Website based on multiple risk signals, including 2 blacklist detections, a very young domain (4 months), and no established public user-review history."
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, moviesda18.com has a low trust score. The website may be a scam."
- Scamadviseropen
"This website appears to be distributing illegal content. This is carried out by providing links to pirated movies and video games..."
Part of moviesda* domain series (moviesda17.com, moviesda19.com, moviesda30.com); redirects to moviesda30.com; shares traffic patterns with moviesda.io.in
Scam Network Intelligence
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://moviesda18.com/
- 2301https://moviesda18.com/
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 moviesda18.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.
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 moviesda18.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — moviesda18.com scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. moviesda18.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 84 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- moviesda18.com is 4 months old, registered on 1/24/2026 through Dynadot Inc. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. moviesda18.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- moviesda18.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.
- 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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