What Is Nicovideo.jp?
Nicovideo.jp is a Japenese streaming site. As of December 2022, the site nicovideo.jp gets an estimated 192.9 million monthly views, according to SimilarWeb. The Wayback Machine estimates nicovideo.jp was founded on January 7, 2007. Nicovideo.jp does have some subdomains set up for its different categories. So when you click on the category menu, it loads subdomains for those categories. We will scan those subdomains in our audit below.
Website: https://www.nicovideo.jp/
Is Nicovideo.jp Safe?
I conducted a series of malware tests to find out if Nicovideo.jp 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 nicovideo.jp without any issues.
To check this further I ran malware scans with Malwarebytes and Spybot on my computer after browsing the site nicovideo.jp 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 nicovideo.jp on the online malware scanner Sucuri and it returned with no issues. You can see the same here: Sucuri scan for the site Nicovideo.jp.
I also scanned the 17 subdomains which are visible from the main site menu and they returned with no issues as well.
Sucuri concludes no malware was found and that the site is not blacklisted by any security vendor.
Some improvements can be made such as fixing the missing security headers listed below:
Missing security header for ClickJacking Protection. Alternatively, you can use Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors ‘none’. Affected pages:
https://sp.nicovideo.jp/ for iPad’s UAMissing security header to prevent Content Type sniffing. Affected pages:
https://sp.nicovideo.jp/ for iPad’s UAMissing Strict-Transport-Security security header.
Missing Content-Security-Policy directive. We recommend to add the following CSP directives (you can use default-src if all values are the same): script-src, object-src, base-uri, frame-src
There was also no website firewall detected during the scan which means the site is vulnerable to hacks and DDoS attacks.
Lastly, I ran a malware scan with VirusTotal on the domain nicovideo.jp and no security vendor has flagged the domain as malicious. You can see the same here: VirusTotal scan for the site Nicovideo.jp.
In conclusion, the site nicovideo.jp is safe to visit. There is no malware, the site isn’t blacklisted by any security vendor associated with Sucuri and no security vendor associated with VirusTotal has flagged the domain as malicious.