Warning signs detected
Piracy portal distributing copyrighted movies, TV, software, and games with malware and ad risks.
Is tfpdl.is legit or a scam?
Piracy portal distributing copyrighted movies, TV, software, and games with malware and ad risks.
This is a piracy site offering unauthorized downloads of movies, TV shows, software, and games. The page carries a high visual risk score and independent trust aggregators rate it at 40/100. Avoid downloading anything from this site.
Score breakdown
See the live page ↓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. Marker positions are approximate. 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 website presents as a repository for pirated digital content, which is frequently associated with malware distribution, intrusive advertising, and phishing risks.
What our vision model saw
3 signalsSite appears to be a media piracy portal focused on unauthorized distribution of movies, TV shows, and software
Minimalist layout with a search bar and navigation menu typical of high-risk file-sharing or streaming sites
Lack of legitimate business information, privacy policies, or contact details
Intelligence
The site presents itself as a direct-download hub for copyrighted movies, TV series, software, and games. Antivirus engines returned zero malicious flags, yet one engine marked it suspicious and the visual assessment flagged it as a high-risk media piracy portal. The domain shows no business registration, no contact details, and no privacy policy. Evidence from Scamadviser and Gridinsoft notes the illegal nature of the downloads and warns of pop-up ads and malware redirects. Similar mirror domains exist, indicating an operator that rotates addresses to evade blocks. These signals together place the site in the suspicious category rather than outright malicious or safe.
Web Research Findings
Independent findings for tfpdl.is, 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.
- TFPDL is a website that provides direct download links for movies, TV series, software, and games, often involving copyrighted material.
- Security services frequently flag the site with mixed or cautionary trust scores (e.g., 60-68/100) due to the nature of its content and potential for malicious redirects.
- The site is frequently associated with pop-up advertisements and redirects, which are common vectors for malware or unwanted software.
- The domain has been active for several years, but it is not a legitimate or authorized distributor of the media it hosts.
- Similar domains (tfpdl.to, tfpdl.cc, tfpdl.se) exist, suggesting a strategy of maintaining multiple mirrors to avoid downtime or blocking.
- Users are advised to exercise caution, as downloading files from such sites carries a risk of malware infection.
- Scamadviseropen
"The website allows you to download movies (at least it seems). There are many companies that offer such service safely. However, when considering downloading movies, please be aware that several scammers are offering illegal downloads of mo"
- Gridinsoftopen
"Current analysis does not clearly confirm that tfpdl.is is safe. Signals such as security-provider warnings and a domain age of 4.9 years support this assessment."
Threat Detection
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.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedThe 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.
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
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://tfpdl.is/
- 2200https://tfpdl.is/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
Proceed with caution
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Treat tfpdl.is as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- Verify the business through independent channels
Check the company's social profiles, registry records, and search for recent news or reviews that are not hosted on the site itself.
- Never use irreversible payment methods
Crypto, gift cards, wire transfers, and cash apps offer zero buyer protection. Use a credit card or PayPal if you must pay.
- OpenShare your experience
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Final Verdict
This is a piracy site offering unauthorized downloads of movies, TV shows, software, and games. The page carries a high visual risk score and independent trust aggregators rate it at 40/100. Avoid downloading anything from this site.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- tfpdl.is looks like a likely scam site — avoid interacting with it. Our review tagged it for malware. 1 of 92 security engines flag it. It may not be an outright scam, but the risk is high enough that you should verify it independently before trusting it with money or data.
- Proceed with caution — tfpdl.is scores 57/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend verifying it through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- If you've already paid or handed over details on tfpdl.is, act quickly. 1) Contact your bank or card issuer immediately and ask to dispute the charge or open a chargeback — the sooner you act, the better your odds. 2) Report the site to the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov or the FBI's IC3 at ic3.gov, and in the UK to Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. 3) If you entered a password, change it on tfpdl.is and anywhere you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. 4) Watch your bank and email for follow-up fraud, and keep screenshots as evidence.
- Often yes, if you act fast. Payments made by credit or debit card can frequently be reversed through a chargeback or dispute — contact your bank right away and explain it was a fraudulent site. Bank transfers and gift-card or voucher payments are much harder to recover, but you should still report them to your bank and to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov) or Action Fraud (actionfraud.police.uk). Avoid any "refund" or "recovery" service that contacts you first — it's usually a follow-up scam.
- Just viewing a scam page is usually low-risk on an up-to-date browser — the real danger is what it asks you to DO (enter details, download a file, send money). If you downloaded anything, run a full antivirus scan and treat the file as untrusted. If you entered a password or card number, change the password everywhere you reused it and contact your bank.
- You can report tfpdl.is through several official channels: the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at ic3.gov, and — in the UK — Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. You can also flag it to Google Safe Browsing (safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish) so other browsers warn about it, and report it to the company being impersonated if there is one. Reporting helps get scam sites taken down faster.
- Modern scams are built to look convincing. A valid SSL padlock, a polished template, stock photos, fake reviews, and a trust badge can all be added in minutes and prove nothing about who runs the site. Scammers buy cheap domains, clone real designs, and copy legal pages wholesale. That's exactly why an automated review that checks the domain's age, hosting, blacklists, and behaviour — rather than just how the page looks — is more reliable than a first impression.
- Yes. 1 of 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged tfpdl.is as suspicious. Even a single detection from a reputable engine is a meaningful warning, and multiple detections rarely happen by accident.
- No — tfpdl.is is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- Yes — tfpdl.is presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, valid for another 88 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
- tfpdl.is resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
- Independent trust-rating sites currently show ScamAdviser (40/100) for tfpdl.is. Those scores mix user reviews with their own automated heuristics, so they're useful to compare against our verdict — but treat any single source, including review sites that can be gamed with fake reviews, as one data point rather than the final word.
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