Brand impersonation — not the real site
Russian mirror of nhentai.net flagged as phishing by Fortinet despite zero scam reports and positive mentions on review sites. 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 nhentai.ru legit or a scam?
Russian mirror of nhentai.net flagged as phishing by Fortinet despite zero scam reports and positive mentions on review sites.
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 functional Russian mirror of the established nhentai.net adult content platform. Our antivirus network recorded a single Fortinet phishing detection while all other engines returned clean. The domain shows a low abuse score on its hosting IP and no browser blocklist hits. Evidence confirms it is explicitly listed as a working clone for users in regions where the main domain is blocked. No scam reports or complaints appear in our research, yet the combination of the security flag and clone status keeps the overall risk moderate.
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 nhentai.ru, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- nhentai.ru is referenced as a working Russian mirror of nhentai.net in GitHub issue #390 (Feb 2022)
- Scamadviser states nhentai.ru is 'probably not a scam but legit'
- Domain nhentai.ru listed for sale on reg.ru adult category for 2,000,000 (RUB)
- User mentions on pikabu.ru and downradar.ru discuss site access and outages
- No scam, malware, or complaint reports found specifically for nhentai.ru in searches
- Main nhentai.net owned by X Separator LLC (Delaware), registered 2014
- scamadviser.comopen
"In summary, nhentai.ru is probably not a scam but legit."
Russian mirror site; GitHub users note nhentai.ru works in Russia where nhentai.to is blocked
Our research found one positive assessment on independent review sites indicating the site is likely legitimate. No scam or complaint reports were located. The domain is noted as a functional Russian mirror for nhentai.net.
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
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 nhentai.ru
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 nhentai.ru as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — nhentai.ru scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. nhentai.ru presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 77 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged nhentai.ru as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. nhentai.ru is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- nhentai.ru resolves to an IP operated by Adman LLC in RU (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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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