Is yibababa.com legit or a scam?
A well-established Chinese media directory and TV link aggregator with a 12-year history and positive community reputation.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
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
The page appears to be a fully-rendered directory or portal for news and media links in Chinese, with no immediate visual indicators of a scam.
What our vision model saw
1 signalPage is in Chinese; visual cues neutral
MT Intelligence
The domain has been registered for over 4,300 days, which is a strong indicator of legitimacy compared to short-lived scam sites. Our antivirus network and malware engines found no threats across 93 different scanners. The site functions as a portal for the Chinese diaspora, providing links to live news and sports broadcasts like CCTV-5. Our research found the site mentioned positively on platforms like Reddit and GitHub for several years. There are no signs of credential harvesting, fake shops, or malicious downloads.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for yibababa.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain active for ~12 years (registered around 2014 based on 4358 days age as of 2026).
- Site aggregates and links to live TV streams (CCTV-5 sports, CCTV channels, Phoenix, CTi News, ABC, FOX, CBS) and VOD without hosting videos itself.
- Repeated disclaimers: "We do NOT store or host this video. Email us to delete this page if your copyright is infringed." Contact: Bin(a)Yibababa.com.
- Used and recommended on Reddit, Chinese forums (huaren.us, wenxuecity), GitHub IPTV projects, and YouTube tutorials for accessing CCTV5 overseas.
- Safety scanners (webrate.org) report no malware, phishing, or unwanted software; described as safe.
- Publishes articles on US life, scams, investments, and news targeted at Chinese-speaking audience in the US.
- No scam reports, complaints, or negative reviews found across searches on Reddit, forums, or review sites.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
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://yibababa.com/
- 2200https://www.yibababa.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on yibababa.com and not a lookalike like y-ibababa.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on yibababa.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- yibababa.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 80/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. yibababa.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 66 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- yibababa.com is 11.9 years old, registered on 7/14/2014 through Launchpad.com Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 93 antivirus engines in our malware network report yibababa.com as clean.
- No. yibababa.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- yibababa.com resolves to an IP operated by Network Solutions, LLC in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 19, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around yibababa.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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