Is yaoiscan.me safe?
http://yaoiscan.me/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (60 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Young manga-aggregator site with a suspicious-vendor flag and an undisclosed operator, but no confirmed scam mechanics
YaoiScan is a manga, manhwa and manhua reading site presenting itself with a header of 'YAOISCAN', 'HOME', 'ALL MANGA', 'SIGN IN' and 'SIGN UP', plus 'POPULAR TODAY' and 'LATEST MANHWA UPDATES' listings. The domain is only 79 days old and was registered on August 5, 2026 through NameCheap, and one security vendor, Gridinsoft, currently classifies the site as a Suspicious Website. Technical checks are clean — the browser threat feed returned no warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection — so the concern is not a live technical threat. The concern is that a very new content aggregator operated anonymously, with no business name, address, or legal entity disclosed and no direct contact email found on the captured page, carries unverified operator risk. There is no evidence in our review of malicious downloads, credential theft, gambling traps, or fraudulent checkout mechanics, and it would be wrong to assert those. The score of 62 reflects a moderate-risk position: not a proven scam, but not a site we can vouch for given its age and lack of verified reputation.
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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 62/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 4 findings pulled the score down; 1 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateOne public warning on a scam-warning or security site: "Gridinsoft currently classifies this site as Suspicious Website."
- 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.
- MinorThe registrable domain is 79 days old and was registered on August 5, 2026 through NameCheap, so the site has no operating history to evaluate.
- MinorNo direct contact email was found on the captured page, and the operator does not disclose a business name, address, or legal entity.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
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
YaoiScan is a manga, manhwa and manhua reading site presenting itself with a header of 'YAOISCAN', 'HOME', 'ALL MANGA', 'SIGN IN' and 'SIGN UP', plus 'POPULAR TODAY' and 'LATEST MANHWA UPDATES' listings. The domain is only 79 days old and was registered on August 5, 2026 through NameCheap, and one security vendor, Gridinsoft, currently classifies the site as a Suspicious Website. Technical checks are clean — the browser threat feed returned no warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection — so the concern is not a live technical threat. The concern is that a very new content aggregator operated anonymously, with no business name, address, or legal entity disclosed and no direct contact email found on the captured page, carries unverified operator risk. There is no evidence in our review of malicious downloads, credential theft, gambling traps, or fraudulent checkout mechanics, and it would be wrong to assert those. The score of 62 reflects a moderate-risk position: not a proven scam, but not a site we can vouch for given its age and lack of verified reputation.
A brand-new aggregator with a clean technical surface
The page displays a simple scanlation-style layout: a header reading 'YAOISCAN', 'HOME', 'ALL MANGA', 'SIGN IN' and 'SIGN UP', followed by a 'POPULAR TODAY' module with various manga titles and cover art and a 'LATEST MANHWA UPDATES' feed. That is the behavior of a content aggregator, and the 'Sign In' and 'Sign Up' controls indicate an optional user-account layer rather than a paywall or storefront.
On the technical side there is nothing alarming to report. The saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning, meaning the scanned surface showed no malicious redirects, download lures, or known-hostile content at the time of review.
What is missing is history. The registrable domain is 79 days old and was registered on August 5, 2026 through NameCheap, so there is no track record of reliable operation to fall back on.
Anonymous operator and a security-vendor suspicion flag
Gridinsoft currently classifies this site as a Suspicious Website, and the saved antivirus observation likewise marked the URL as suspicious. This is a real, target-bound detection rather than a category guess, though it is a reputation-heuristic flag from a young-domain signal, not proof of a specific malicious mechanism.
The captured page also showed no direct contact email. Combined with an operator who does not disclose a business name, physical address, or legal entity, that leaves anyone using the site with no verified party to hold accountable if something goes wrong.
Why the score is 62
One public warning on a scam-warning or security site: "Gridinsoft currently classifies this site as Suspicious Website.". 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 14, 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 - Clean
- 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 - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiEntertainment
- BitDefendermisc
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekersex
- Googledownloads_and_sharing
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
The website displays a header with 'YAOISCAN', 'HOME', 'ALL MANGA', 'SIGN IN', and 'SIGN UP'. Below, it lists 'POPULAR TODAY' with various manga titles and cover art, followed by 'LATEST MANHWA UPDATES'.
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
The website displays a header with 'YAOISCAN', 'HOME', 'ALL MANGA', 'SIGN IN', and 'SIGN UP'. Below, it lists 'POPULAR TODAY' with various manga titles and cover art, followed by 'LATEST MANHWA UPDATES'.
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
YaoiScan - Read Yaoi Manga, BL Manhwa & Manhua Online
- Meta description
Read Yaoi manga, BL manhwa, manhua and Boys' Love comics online for free. Discover popular yaoi series, new chapters, doujinshi, oneshots and more, updated daily.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Privacy policy/privacy-policy/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
YaoiScan - Read Yaoi Manga, BL Manhwa & Manhua Online
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 60 antivirus results.
What independent research found
2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 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
- 01The registrable domain is 79 days old and was registered on August 5, 2026 through NameCheap, so the site has no operating history to evaluate.
- 02One public warning on a scam-warning or security site: "Gridinsoft currently classifies this site as Suspicious Website."
- 031 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.
Web research findings
Independent findings for yaoiscan.me, 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.
- Gridinsoftopen
"Gridinsoft currently classifies this site as Suspicious Website."
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.
- Domainyaoiscan.me
- Redirects toyaoiscan.me
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesstatic.cloudflareinsights.com
Domain Timeline
- Aug 5, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 79 days old when this review was saved.
- Oct 24, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.
yaoiscan.me was registered very recently when this review was saved. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, so a young domain whose evidence is mixed or incomplete warrants extra caution.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No direct contact email found on the captured page.
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
A certificate issued weeks or days before the scan on a domain registered recently is common on short-lived sites, though new legitimate sites look the same.
Certificate issued for yaoiscan.me.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
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://yaoiscan.me/
- 2200https://yaoiscan.me/
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 contentcomplete
- 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
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
One public warning on a scam-warning or security site: "Gridinsoft currently classifies this site as Suspicious Website." · The registrable domain is 79 days old and was registered on August 5, 2026 through NameCheap, so the site has no operating history to evaluate.
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 14, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 24, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 24, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 24, 2026 |
| Independent research | 2 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Oct 24, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 14, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 24, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 24, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 24, 2026
- Independent research
- Result2 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 24, 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 yaoiscan.me a scam or is it safe?
Is yaoiscan.me safe to use?
Has yaoiscan.me been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is yaoiscan.me on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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Does yaoiscan.me have a valid SSL certificate?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Young manga-aggregator site with a suspicious-vendor flag and an undisclosed operator, but no confirmed scam mechanics
YaoiScan is a manga, manhwa and manhua reading site presenting itself with a header of 'YAOISCAN', 'HOME', 'ALL MANGA', 'SIGN IN' and 'SIGN UP', plus 'POPULAR TODAY' and 'LATEST MANHWA UPDATES' listings. The domain is only 79 days old and was registered on August 5, 2026 through NameCheap, and one security vendor, Gridinsoft, currently classifies the site as a Suspicious Website. Technical checks are clean — the browser threat feed returned no warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection — so the concern is not a live technical threat. The concern is that a very new content aggregator operated anonymously, with no business name, address, or legal entity disclosed and no direct contact email found on the captured page, carries unverified operator risk. There is no evidence in our review of malicious downloads, credential theft, gambling traps, or fraudulent checkout mechanics, and it would be wrong to assert those. The score of 62 reflects a moderate-risk position: not a proven scam, but not a site we can vouch for given its age and lack of verified reputation.
09 · Community
Community
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