Critical risk detected
Download proxy subdomain flagged for phishing and malware activity with multiple scam reports and no business registration. Our security stack flagged multiple threat indicators on this website. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Is tunnel5.dlproxy.uk legit or a scam?
Download proxy subdomain flagged for phishing and malware activity with multiple scam reports and no business registration.
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 subdomain serves as a download tunnel for game files from piracy-related sites. PCRisk and SecureFeed both mark the host for phishing and malware-related behavior. Four separate complaints appear on Reddit threads discussing failed or risky downloads from dlproxy.uk subdomains. No business registration exists for the domain, and global traffic data shows it is not indexed as a legitimate service. The 323-day age and clean browser blocklist are outweighed by the direct malicious-activity reports.
Website Preview
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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
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What our vision model saw
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Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for tunnel5.dlproxy.uk, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Parent domain dlproxy.uk registered July 16, 2025 via Cloudflare; expires July 16, 2026; no owner info public
- tunnel5.dlproxy.uk flagged malicious by SecureFeed (malware activity) and PCRisk (phishing category, 19/100 trust score, 7/91 engines)
- Multiple Reddit threads in r/Anker_Games_, r/FitGirlRepack, r/PiratedGames reference dlproxy.uk subdomains for game downloads with connection/safety concerns
- dlproxy.uk receives ~5.9M visits in April 2026 per Semrush, mainly from ankergames.net
- Similar subdomains (nova, orion, tunnel1) linked in Hybrid Analysis malware samples and flagged by VirusTotal/URLQuery
- Domain age ~323 days; behind Cloudflare with Google Trust Services SSL
- Reddit r/Anker_Games_open
"the page tunnel5.dlproxy.uk has refuse the connection . try: check your connection check your proxy and firewall ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED"
- PCRisk Scanneropen
"Category: **Phishing** ... trust score 19/100, 7/91 engines flagged"
- SecureFeedopen
"Host has shown activity related to malware."
- Reddit r/ScamCheckeropen
"Score: 94/100. Risk Level: High Risk. Domain Age: 286 days. dlproxy.uk is likely unsafe"
Reddit threads in r/Anker_Games_ and r/ScamChecker report connection refusals and label dlproxy.uk subdomains as high-risk. PCRisk categorizes the host as phishing with a 19/100 trust score. SecureFeed notes malware activity on the domain. No positive reviews or business registrations were located.
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 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.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
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.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
Malware distribution detected
Signals suggest this page may deliver malicious files or exploit the browser.
- Do not interact with tunnel5.dlproxy.uk
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- 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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Trust History
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 tunnel5.dlproxy.uk as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — tunnel5.dlproxy.uk scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. tunnel5.dlproxy.uk presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 73 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- tunnel5.dlproxy.uk is 10 months old, registered on 7/16/2025 through Cloudflare, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. tunnel5.dlproxy.uk is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- tunnel5.dlproxy.uk 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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