Critical risk detected
URL shortener on videy.yt flagged malicious by Webroot and Gridinsoft with phishing reports and Reddit complaints about auto-closing tabs. Our security stack flagged multiple threat indicators on this website. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Is cdn.videy.yt legit or a scam?
URL shortener on videy.yt flagged malicious by Webroot and Gridinsoft with phishing reports and Reddit complaints about auto-closing tabs.
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 page presents itself as a legitimate URL shortener called shortmylink with standard features and a clean visual appearance. However, our antivirus network detected one malicious flag from Webroot and a suspicious flag from Gridinsoft. The evidence package shows four separate scam reports including phishing classifications from PCRisk and malicious domain detections from Hybrid Analysis. Five user complaints were also located, including Reddit posts describing links that open and immediately close tabs. No business registration or positive reviews exist to offset these signals.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
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.
No scam visual patterns detected
The screenshot shows a fully rendered, clean URL shortener landing page with standard features and no visible scam indicators.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for cdn.videy.yt, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Subdomain of videy.yt primarily hosts video files (e.g. https://cdn.videy.yt/XNbjQnCX.mp4)
- Multiple security scanners (PCRisk, Hybrid Analysis, SecureFeed, Gridinsoft) flag the domain/subdomain as suspicious, phishing, or malicious with low trust scores (35-40/100)
- Reddit threads discuss user concerns after clicking videy.yt links that open and immediately close tabs
- Page title matches shortmylink.site, a URL shortener service
- Similar domain cdn.videy.co discussed on Cloudflare community as video hosting for communities.win (Reddit clone site)
- No WHOIS or business registration details located; .yt TLD is for Mayotte
- PCRiskopen
"Category: **Phishing And Other Frauds** Scanned: **May 14, 2026, 12:34 PM UTC** · First seen: **May 5, 2026** · Threat Engines: **2 / 92**"
- Hybrid Analysisopen
"Malicious domain detected SUBMITTED URL: "https://cdn.videy.yt/XNbjQnCX.mp4" contacted related malicious domain: "videy.yt""
- Gridinsoftopen
"Cdn.videy.yt Scam Check: Blacklist Warning (35/100 Trust Score) Multiple security vendors blacklist Cdn.videy.yt"
- Redditopen
"Accidentally clicked on a videy.yt link, it opened a tab and immediately closed it."
PCRisk lists the domain under phishing and frauds with a low engine detection count. Hybrid Analysis flagged related video URLs as contacting malicious domains. Gridinsoft issued a blacklist warning with a 35/100 trust score. Reddit users described suspicious behavior where videy.yt links opened and closed tabs automatically. No positive reviews or company registrations were located.
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
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 phishing.
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 phishing.
Phishing site — act fast
This page shows signs of attempting to steal credentials or impersonate a trusted brand.
- Do not interact with cdn.videy.yt
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- If you already typed your password — change it now
Change the password on the legitimate site and anywhere else you re-used it. Turn on two-factor authentication. Review recent account activity.
- OpenReport the phishing URL
APWG (Anti-Phishing Working Group) accepts phishing reports at reportphishing@apwg.org. Google Safe Browsing reports help protect other users.
- OpenGet help on the forum
MalwareTips members can help you assess damage and next steps.
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 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 cdn.videy.yt as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — cdn.videy.yt scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. cdn.videy.yt presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 71 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 2 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged cdn.videy.yt as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. cdn.videy.yt is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- cdn.videy.yt 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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