Brand impersonation — not the real site
Domain is only 42 days old. 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 vidbox.dev legit or a scam?
Newly registered clone of vidbox.cc offering free streaming, flagged as spam by two engines and carrying scam reports.
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 HD streaming service for movies and TV shows with no registration required. Its domain was registered only 42 days ago through Tucows, which is unusually recent for a legitimate streaming platform. Two antivirus engines labeled it suspicious or spam, and independent reports from PCRisk and Reddit users note Google warnings and question its safety. The site is explicitly identified as a clone of vidbox.cc, with redirects linking the two. While the hosting IP shows no abuse history and browser blocklists are clean, the combination of extreme youth, cloning, and external complaints outweighs the clean technical signals.
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
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 vidbox.dev, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered April 21, 2026 via Tucows Domains Inc., expires April 21, 2027; first seen May 4, 2026
- PCRisk security scan (May 25, 2026): Spam/Newly Registered category, 30/100 trust score, flagged by 2/91 engines
- Functions as free movie/TV streaming site (HD content, no registration), associated with/redirect from vidbox.to and vidbox.cc
- Reddit r/ScamChecker post questions legitimacy after Google flagged unsafe/high risk
- Promoted on X and Instagram for free streaming (e.g. new episodes of shows), often with adblocker advice
- Hosted on Cloudflare (Toronto, Canada); Tranco rank ~139k (moderately popular, 100K–1M monthly visitors est.)
- No Trustpilot/Scamadviser reviews or business registration specific to vidbox.dev found
Multiple references note vidbox.cc/home redirects to vidbox.dev
PCRisk categorized vidbox.dev as Spam/Newly Registered and assigned a low trust score. A Reddit thread in r/ScamChecker shows users questioning its safety after Google warnings. No positive reviews or business registrations specific to this domain were found.
Scam Network Intelligence
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://vidbox.dev/
- 2403https://vidbox.dev/
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 vidbox.dev
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 vidbox.dev as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — vidbox.dev scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. vidbox.dev presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E7, expiring in 47 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- vidbox.dev is 1 month old, registered on 4/21/2026 through Tucows Domains Inc. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 2 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged vidbox.dev as malicious or suspicious. Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. vidbox.dev is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- vidbox.dev 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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