Is pixiv.pictures safe?
http://pixiv.pictures/
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How we checked
Coverage: partial · 2 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (58 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading · limited: did not fully complete
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Pixiv Viewer is an open-source third-party Pixiv browser, not a scam — but its own pages were never fully reviewed
pixiv.pictures presents itself as "Pixiv Viewer", a third-party viewer for Pixiv illustrations, manga and novels. Independent research identifies it as an open-source project published on GitHub under the AGPL-3.0 license by the user asadahimeka, which is a genuine, verifiable provenance rather than a fabricated storefront or a credential-harvesting clone. Technical checks are clean: the browser threat feed returned no threat warning, the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, and the registrable domain is 669 days old. One saved antivirus observation flagged the URL as suspicious, but that result is stale and comes from a single engine, so it is context rather than a confirmed threat. The score sits in the Low Risk band rather than Safe because the site's own contact, About and policy text was not read in full, so the operator's disclosures and the exact handling of the login methods the tool offers could not be verified from the site itself.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 72/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. 1 finding pulled the score down; 4 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Moderate1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsIndependent research identifies the site as an open-source Pixiv viewer with a public GitHub repository, giving it verifiable provenance.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the URL.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 669 days old, inconsistent with a throwaway fraud domain.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
pixiv.pictures presents itself as "Pixiv Viewer", a third-party viewer for Pixiv illustrations, manga and novels. Independent research identifies it as an open-source project published on GitHub under the AGPL-3.0 license by the user asadahimeka, which is a genuine, verifiable provenance rather than a fabricated storefront or a credential-harvesting clone. Technical checks are clean: the browser threat feed returned no threat warning, the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, and the registrable domain is 669 days old. One saved antivirus observation flagged the URL as suspicious, but that result is stale and comes from a single engine, so it is context rather than a confirmed threat. The score sits in the Low Risk band rather than Safe because the site's own contact, About and policy text was not read in full, so the operator's disclosures and the exact handling of the login methods the tool offers could not be verified from the site itself.
A recognised open-source viewer, not a commercial funnel
The page identifies itself as "Pixiv Viewer" and the visible text on the site matches that name. Independent research describes it as "Yet Another Pixiv Illust&Novel Viewer" and points to a GitHub repository, asadahimeka/pixiv-viewer, which is the project's public source. A tool that publishes its own source code under an open licence is a materially different proposition from an anonymous shop or a cloned login page: its behaviour can be inspected by anyone.
Our review records no commercial calls to action, no affiliate relationships and no cross-domain order path. There is no checkout, no subscription, no supplement funnel and no gambling mechanic in the evidence supplied, so none of the commercial-deception patterns that drive high-risk scores apply here.
Clean technical checks, one stale flag, and an unread operator page
The technical picture is benign. The browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, so traffic to the site is encrypted and no browser-level block is in place. The registrable domain is 669 days old, which is long enough to rule out the throwaway-domain pattern typical of freshly spun-up fraud.
One saved antivirus observation marked the URL as suspicious. That detection is real but stale and comes from a single engine, and it is not corroborated by any other source in the evidence. It is worth noting as a flag to re-check, not as proof of malicious behaviour.
The gap is on the operator side. The site's own contact details were not reviewed because the page text was not read in full, so the About, contact and policy pages could not be checked. That is why the verdict stops short of Safe: the tool's provenance is verifiable through its public repository, but the site's own disclosures about who runs this instance and how it handles the account access it offers were not confirmed from the site itself.
Why the score is 72
The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from October 6, 2026 - stale
1 engine flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Unrated
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Unrated
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiBusiness/Economy
- BitDefendercomputersandsoftware
- Googlemedia_and_entertainment
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
Pixiv Viewer
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Pixiv Viewer
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Pixiv Viewer - Yet Another Pixiv Illustration & Novel Viewer
- Meta description
又一个 Pixiv 阅览工具，提供 pixiv 的插画、动图、漫画和小说等作品的在线浏览，适配多端样式，提供多种浏览布局选择，支持 PWA 安装。
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Pixiv Viewer - Yet Another Pixiv Illustration & Novel Viewer
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 58 antivirus results.
What independent research found
1 external finding was saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
2 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01Independent research identifies the site as an open-source Pixiv viewer with a public GitHub repository, giving it verifiable provenance.
- 02The browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the URL.
- 03The saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
Web research findings
Independent findings for pixiv.pictures, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
- GitHub - asadahimeka/pixiv-vieweropen
"Yet Another Pixiv Illust&Novel Viewer. 又一个 Pixiv 阅览工具"
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainpixiv.pictures
- Redirects topixiv.pictures
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesapi.cocomi.eu.org · lib.baomitu.com
Domain Timeline
- Dec 16, 2024Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 1.8 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 17, 2026Saved security review — Rated Low Risk
This saved scan found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Certificate issued for pixiv.pictures.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://pixiv.pictures/
- 2200https://pixiv.pictures/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentpartial
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 1 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 6, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 17, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Limited | No saved finding | this scan · Oct 17, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 17, 2026 |
| Independent research | 1 independent finding was saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 17, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 6, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 17, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 17, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 17, 2026
- Independent research
- Result1 independent finding was saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 17, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is pixiv.pictures a scam or is it safe?
Is pixiv.pictures safe to use?
Has pixiv.pictures been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is pixiv.pictures on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Pixiv Viewer is an open-source third-party Pixiv browser, not a scam — but its own pages were never fully reviewed
pixiv.pictures presents itself as "Pixiv Viewer", a third-party viewer for Pixiv illustrations, manga and novels. Independent research identifies it as an open-source project published on GitHub under the AGPL-3.0 license by the user asadahimeka, which is a genuine, verifiable provenance rather than a fabricated storefront or a credential-harvesting clone. Technical checks are clean: the browser threat feed returned no threat warning, the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, and the registrable domain is 669 days old. One saved antivirus observation flagged the URL as suspicious, but that result is stale and comes from a single engine, so it is context rather than a confirmed threat. The score sits in the Low Risk band rather than Safe because the site's own contact, About and policy text was not read in full, so the operator's disclosures and the exact handling of the login methods the tool offers could not be verified from the site itself.
09 · Community
Community
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