Is joyjak.st safe?

http://joyjak.st/

High RiskStatus

Coveragepartial2 of 4 applicable core capabilities

Verdict

joyjak.st is a bait-and-switch shock site that triggers loud audio, visual shocks, and unexpected file downloads when users interact with the page.

The site presents itself as an imageboard for sharing 'joyjaks' but functions as a Kekma-style screamer that delivers malicious shocks and downloads upon clicking anywhere on the page. Multiple antivirus engines flag the domain as malicious or suspicious, and external documentation confirms its deceptive behavior.

Avoid visiting joyjak.st entirely. The site is designed to deliver unwanted downloads and audio/visual shocks through deceptive bait-and-switch tactics.
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Calibrated safety spectrum

Where this site sits

  1. Dangerous1–20
  2. High Risk21–44
  3. Moderate Risk45–69
  4. Low Risk70–84
  5. Safe85–100

The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.

01 · Investigation Brief

Investigation Brief

The site presents itself as an imageboard for sharing 'joyjaks' but functions as a Kekma-style screamer that delivers malicious shocks and downloads upon clicking anywhere on the page. Multiple antivirus engines flag the domain as malicious or suspicious, and external documentation confirms its deceptive behavior.

Security detections and external documentation

Three independent antivirus engines (alphaMountain.ai, Fortinet, and Gridinsoft) have flagged joyjak.st as malicious or suspicious, with Gridinsoft specifically classifying it as a Suspicious Website.

External research documentation identifies the site as a 'Joyjak Screamer' that appears as a normal imageboard with boards for posting joyjaks, but when users click anywhere, they experience AI-generated slot machine sounds, loud noises, and strange files being downloaded.

Observed site behavior and visitor exposure

The site lacks any direct contact email or transparent ownership information, presenting itself as an anonymous imageboard while hosting deceptive content designed to shock visitors.

The domain is hosted on GitHub Pages infrastructure, which has a moderate abuse confidence score, though this alone does not determine the malicious nature of the content served.

Why the score is 25

2 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.

02 · Security Evidence

Security evidence

Collected signals and independent provider data for this URL.

Antivirus Engines

3/ 92

detections

Saved result - stale

3 engines flagged this URL

Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.

Malicious
2
Suspicious
1
Total
92
Adverse antivirus results
EngineFinding
alphaMountain.aiMaliciousmalicious
FortinetMaliciousphishing
GridinsoftSuspicioussuspicious
All 92 engine results
  • alphaMountain.ai - malicious - Malicious
  • Fortinet - phishing - Malicious
  • Gridinsoft - suspicious - Suspicious
  • 0xSI_f33d - unrated - Clean
  • Abusix - clean - Clean
  • Acronis - clean - Clean
  • ADMINUSLabs - clean - Clean
  • AILabs (MONITORAPP) - clean - Clean
  • AlienVault - clean - Clean
  • AlphaSOC - unrated - Clean
  • Antiy-AVL - clean - Clean
  • ArcSight Threat Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • AutoShun - unrated - Clean
  • Bfore.Ai PreCrime - unrated - Clean
  • BitDefender - clean - Clean
  • Bkav - unrated - Clean
  • BlockList - clean - Clean
  • Blueliv - clean - Clean
  • Certego - clean - Clean
  • ChainPatrol - unrated - Clean
  • Chong Lua Dao - clean - Clean
  • CINS Army - clean - Clean
  • CRDF - clean - Clean
  • Criminal IP - clean - Clean
  • CSIS Security Group - unrated - Clean
  • CTX AI - clean - Clean
  • Cyan - unrated - Clean
  • Cyble - clean - Clean
  • CyRadar - clean - Clean
  • desenmascara.me - clean - Clean
  • DNS8 - unrated - Clean
  • Dr.Web - clean - Clean
  • EmergingThreats - clean - Clean
  • Emsisoft - clean - Clean
  • Ermes - unrated - Clean
  • ESET - clean - Clean
  • ESTsecurity - clean - Clean
  • Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - unrated - Clean
  • Fortra - unrated - Clean
  • G-Data - clean - Clean
  • GCP Abuse Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • Google Safe Browsing - clean - Clean
  • GreenSnow - clean - Clean
  • GreyNoise - unrated - Clean
  • Guardpot - unrated - Clean
  • Heimdal Security - clean - Clean
  • Hunt.io Intelligence - unrated - Clean
  • IPsum - clean - Clean
  • Juniper Networks - clean - Clean
  • K7AntiVirus - unrated - Clean
  • Kaspersky - clean - Clean
  • LevelBlue - clean - Clean
  • Lionic - clean - Clean
  • Lumu - unrated - Clean
  • Malwared - clean - Clean
  • MalwarePatrol - clean - Clean
  • MalwareURL - unrated - Clean
  • Mimecast - unrated - Clean
  • Netcraft - unrated - Clean
  • OpenPhish - clean - Clean
  • PhishFort - unrated - Clean
  • Phishing Database - clean - Clean
  • Phishtank - clean - Clean
  • PREBYTES - clean - Clean
  • PrecisionSec - unrated - Clean
  • Quick Heal - clean - Clean
  • Quttera - clean - Clean
  • Rising - clean - Clean
  • SafeToOpen - unrated - Clean
  • Sangfor - clean - Clean
  • Sansec eComscan - unrated - Clean
  • Scantitan - clean - Clean
  • SCUMWARE.org - clean - Clean
  • Seclookup - clean - Clean
  • Snort IP sample list - unrated - Clean
  • SOCRadar - unrated - Clean
  • Sophos - clean - Clean
  • StopForumSpam - clean - Clean
  • Sucuri SiteCheck - clean - Clean
  • Synthient - unrated - Clean
  • ThreatHive - clean - Clean
  • URLhaus - clean - Clean
  • URLQuery - unrated - Clean
  • Viettel Threat Intelligence - clean - Clean
  • VIPRE - unrated - Clean
  • ViriBack - clean - Clean
  • VX Vault - clean - Clean
  • Webroot - clean - Clean
  • Xcitium Verdict Cloud - clean - Clean
  • Yandex Safebrowsing - clean - Clean
  • ZeroCERT - clean - Clean
  • ZeroFox - unrated - Clean

Security Scans

Browser Threat Feed
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.

What we observed

CAPTURED PAGE
joyjak.st
What our review noticed on this page
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

joyjak.party, (or just the jorty) is an imageboard dedicated to the creation, posting, and sharing of joyjaks.

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    joyjak.party, (or just the jorty) is an imageboard dedicated to the creation, posting, and sharing of joyjaks.

03 · Investigation Story

Investigation story

The behavior, reputation, and operator evidence that explains how this site may affect a visitor.
  1. What the site claims

    joyjak.party

  2. What we observed

    Saved browser evidence recorded deceptive download controls.

  3. What independent research found

    2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.

  4. What remains unverified

    2 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.

What kind of site and risk is this?

Threat category

Malware & Deceptive Downloads

Service and business model

Content

Unknown

Observed behavior

Deceptive Download Controls

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 01Site triggers unexpected downloads and audio/visual shocks upon interaction
  2. 022 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.

Web research findings

Independent findings for joyjak.st, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.

Business registration
No public record found
Could not match the site to a registered company — common for small sites.
Clone check
No clone detected
The completed research found no supported clone indicator.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The completed research found no supported look-alike match.
Web mentions
2 scam reports
Scam reports (2)
Direct quotes from public scam databases, forums, and news.
  • SNCApediaopen

    "joyjak.st, formerly joyjack.party, also known as the Joyjak Screamer, is a Kekma style bait-and-switch site that appears as a normal imageboard with 2 boards (/joy/ and /qa/) for the purpose of posting Joyjaks, but when you click anywhere, you WILL be shocked with AI 'slot, 'o, loud noises and strange files downloaded to your computer."

  • Gridinsoftopen

    "Suspicious Website Gridinsoft currently classifies this site as Suspicious Website. The report highlights 1 blacklist detections"

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
ListedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

04 · Domain & Infrastructure

Domain & infrastructure

Timeline · identity · encryption · redirects · hosting

The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.

Infrastructure map

How the saved page connected to the wider web.

  1. Domainjoyjak.st
  2. Redirects tojoyjak.st
  3. Hosted byGitHub, Inc.

Contact Verification

Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No direct contact email found on the captured page.

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YR2
ExpiresDec 18, 2026 (73d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingGitHub, Inc.
Server locationUS
Web serverGitHub.com

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://joyjak.st/
  • 2206https://joyjak.st/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score38%
Reports on file45
ISPGitHub, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

Coverage, provenance, and source freshness remain separate so a missing check is never mistaken for a clean result.
  1. Antiviruspartial
  2. Browser threat feedcomplete
  3. Page contentpartial
  4. Analysiscomplete
  5. Visual evidencecomplete
Completed analysis

The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.

Technical threat

suspicious

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

Additional evidence review · Additional evidence review

Operator / customer risk

suspicious

Complaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.

Additional evidence review

Source coverage and freshness

Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.

Antivirus
Result3 of 92 engines flagged
CompletionLimited
FindingAdverse
Freshnessstale fallback · Oct 6, 2026
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Page content
ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
CompletionLimited
FindingNo saved finding
FreshnessNot available
Visual evidence
Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
FreshnessNot available
Independent research
Result2 independent findings were saved
CompletionCompleted
FindingAdverse
FreshnessNot available

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

Proceed with caution

Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.

  1. Analyst recommendation

    Avoid visiting joyjak.st entirely. The site is designed to deliver unwanted downloads and audio/visual shocks through deceptive bait-and-switch tactics.

  2. Treat joyjak.st as unverified

    Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.

  3. Verify the business through independent channels

    Check the company's social profiles, registry records, and search for recent news or reviews that are not hosted on the site itself.

  4. Never use irreversible payment methods

    Crypto, gift cards, wire transfers, and cash apps offer zero buyer protection. Use a credit card or PayPal if you must pay.

  5. Share your experience

    If you have additional context, drop a comment below or post on the MalwareTips forum.

    Open

07 · Safety FAQ

Safety FAQ

Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.

Is joyjak.st a scam or a legit download site?
joyjak.st looks like a likely malware & deceptive downloads — avoid interacting with it. Our review tagged it for malware. 3 of 92 security engines flag it (2 as outright malicious). It may not be an outright scam, but the risk is high enough that you should verify it independently before trusting it with money or data.
Is joyjak.st safe to use?
joyjak.st has a Safety Score of 25/100 (High Risk). Analysis coverage is partial at 69%. Avoid login, payment and downloads.
I already paid or entered my details on joyjak.st — what should I do?
If you've already paid or handed over details on joyjak.st, act quickly. 1) Contact your bank or card issuer immediately and ask to dispute the charge or open a chargeback — the sooner you act, the better your odds. 2) Report the site to the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov or the FBI's IC3 at ic3.gov, and in the UK to Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. 3) If you entered a password, change it on joyjak.st and anywhere you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. 4) Watch your bank and email for follow-up fraud, and keep screenshots as evidence.
Can I get my money back from joyjak.st?
Often yes, if you act fast. Payments made by credit or debit card can frequently be reversed through a chargeback or dispute — contact your bank right away and explain it was a fraudulent site. Bank transfers and gift-card or voucher payments are much harder to recover, but you should still report them to your bank and to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov) or Action Fraud (actionfraud.police.uk). Avoid any "refund" or "recovery" service that contacts you first — it's usually a follow-up scam.
Is my device infected after visiting joyjak.st?
Simply loading a page is usually lower-risk than downloading or running a file from it. If you downloaded or opened anything from joyjak.st, run a full scan with reputable antivirus software and consider it untrusted. If you only viewed the page, keep your browser and OS updated, watch for unexpected pop-ups or new programs, and change passwords from a clean device if you entered any.
How do I report joyjak.st?
You can report joyjak.st through several official channels: the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at ic3.gov, and — in the UK — Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. You can also flag it to Google Safe Browsing (safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish) so other browsers warn about it, and report it to the company being impersonated if there is one. Reporting helps get scam sites taken down faster.
joyjak.st looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Modern scams are built to look convincing. A valid SSL padlock, a polished template, stock photos, fake reviews, and a trust badge can all be added in minutes and prove nothing about who runs the site. Scammers buy cheap domains, clone real designs, and copy legal pages wholesale. That's exactly why an automated review that checks the domain's age, hosting, blacklists, and behaviour — rather than just how the page looks — is more reliable than a first impression.
Has joyjak.st been flagged by antivirus engines?
Yes. 3 of 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged joyjak.st, 2 of them as outright malicious. Even a single detection from a reputable engine is a meaningful warning, and multiple detections rarely happen by accident.
Is joyjak.st on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — joyjak.st is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
Does joyjak.st have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — joyjak.st presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR2, valid for another 73 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
Where is joyjak.st hosted?
joyjak.st resolves to an IP operated by GitHub, Inc. in US (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
How often is the joyjak.st report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on October 6, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about joyjak.st has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.

08 · Final Verdict

Final verdict

The saved conclusion, decisive evidence, and practical action in one final view.
Verdict score
25/100
High Risk

joyjak.st is a bait-and-switch shock site that triggers loud audio, visual shocks, and unexpected file downloads when users interact with the page.

Saved capturejoyjak.stCapture-safe
Captured during this scan. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

The site presents itself as an imageboard for sharing 'joyjaks' but functions as a Kekma-style screamer that delivers malicious shocks and downloads upon clicking anywhere on the page. Multiple antivirus engines flag the domain as malicious or suspicious, and external documentation confirms its deceptive behavior.

Recommended actionAvoid visiting joyjak.st entirely. The site is designed to deliver unwanted downloads and audio/visual shocks through deceptive bait-and-switch tactics.
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09 · Community

Community

First-hand experiences add human context after the scanner has reached its conclusion.