What Is Hotstar.com?
Hotstar (hotstar.com) is a streaming and online TV site and one of India’s largest streaming sites. As of December 2022, the site hotstar.com gets an estimated 283.7 million monthly views, according to SimilarWeb. The Wayback Machine suggests hotstar.com was founded on December 26, 1996.
Website: https://www.hotstar.com/
Is Hotstar.com Safe?
I conducted a series of malware tests to find out if hotstar.com is safe and legit. Here are the results:
I installed the Malwarebytes Browser Guard on my Edge browser and was able to browse the site hotstar.com without any issues.
To check this further I ran malware scans with Malwarebytes and Spybot on my computer after browsing the site hotstar.com and they returned no malware detection. I also ran a system-wide scan with Microsoft Defender and no malware was found.
To confirm that the site is clean, I also checked the site hotstar.com on the online malware scanner Sucuri and the scan failed. You can see the same here: Sucuri scan for the site Hotstar.com.
Whenever the scan fails, Sucuri automatically lists the site as a medium security risk.
Sucuri wasn’t able to complete its scan for malware but it was able to detect some other minor issues listed below:
HTTPS mixed content found. Your HTTPS website is referring to an HTTP resource:
http://secure-media.hotstar.com/static/sunset/us/assets/web/disney_bundle.png on https://www.hotstar.com/us
There were also some missing security headers listed below:
Missing security header for ClickJacking Protection. Alternatively, you can use Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors ‘none’.
Missing security header to prevent Content Type sniffing.
Missing Strict-Transport-Security security header.
Missing Content-Security-Policy directive. We recommend adding the following CSP directives (you can use default-src if all values are the same): script-src, object-src, base-uri, frame-src
On a positive note, the site hotstar.com was already using a Website firewall to protect it against hacks and DDoS attacks.
Lastly, I ran a malware scan with VirusTotal on the domain hotstar.com and no security vendors flagged the domain as malicious. You can see the same here: VirusTotal scan for the site Hotstar.com.
In conclusion, Sucuri wasn’t able to scan the site hotstar.com for malware; however, no security vendors blacklisted the site. Moreover, no security vendors on VirusTotal have flagged the domain as malicious. Though Sucuri lists it as a medium security risk. it’s likely safe to browse this site.