Is en.yts-official.org legit or a scam?
A deceptive YTS movie clone flagged by multiple security engines for hosting malicious content and impersonating a defunct piracy brand.
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
Brand impersonation — not the real site
3 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page (2 outright malicious). This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
The site is a clear imitation of the original YTS/YIFY brand, which was permanently shut down by authorities in 2015. Our analysis shows that several antivirus engines, including ADMINUSLabs and CyRadar, flag this specific domain as malicious. While the domain has existed for over 1,000 years, it lacks any verifiable business registration or contact information. The page structure is designed to mimic a legitimate streaming service to trick users into interacting with high-risk torrent links. We have high confidence that this is an unofficial copycat site operated by unknown parties.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for en.yts-official.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain age approximately 2.8–3 years (consistent with ~1009 days provided); hosted in the US.
- Gridinsoft analysis (last checked Jan 21, 2026) rates it 11/100 as a 'Suspicious Website' with 6 blacklist detections from vendors including Fortinet (Phishing), alphaMountain.ai (Malicious), and others.
- AdGuard filters specifically target en.yts-official.org for anti-adblock scripts (GitHub issue from Nov 2024).
- Reddit users in r/torrents (e.g., post from late 2024/early 2025) explicitly ask if https://en.yts-official.org is legit, noting it looks similar to old YTS but is not confirmed as official.
- Original YIFY/YTS site shut down permanently in 2015 by MPAA; all current 'official' YTS domains (yts.mx, yts.lt, etc.) are unofficial clones or successors per Wikipedia.
- The site self-identifies as 'the official YIFY website' and promotes 720p/1080p/4K YIFY-style torrents, a common claim among many competing copycat torrent sites.
- No Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, or ScamDoc scores available in results; no positive independent reviews found.
- Gridinsoftopen
"en.yts-official.org should not be treated as a safe website. Gridinsoft gives it a 11/100 trust score, and multiple security vendors blacklist the domain."
- Gridinsoftopen
"Suspicious Website... 6 security-provider warnings, multiple malware or phishing blacklist detections (alphaMountain.ai Malicious, CyRadar Malicious, Fortinet Phishing, Seclookup Malicious, Certego Suspicious)"
Site heavily mimics the official YTS/YIFY branding, design, and movie torrent offerings. Multiple Reddit users question if it is 'legit' or the 'official' site; it is one of many copycat domains following the 2015 shutdown of the original.
Scam Network Intelligence
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://en.yts-official.org/
- 2200https://en.yts-official.org/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
1 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 a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
1 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 a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with en.yts-official.org
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
- Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
- OpenReport the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
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 flags en.yts-official.org as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — en.yts-official.org scored 12/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. en.yts-official.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 85 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- en.yts-official.org is 2.8 years old, registered on 9/19/2023 through easyDNS Technologies Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 3 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged en.yts-official.org as malicious or suspicious (2 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. en.yts-official.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- en.yts-official.org 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 25, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around en.yts-official.org 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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