No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is pornhub.com legit or a scam?
Official Pornhub adult site with a 25-year-old domain, clean security scans, and no malware detections.
Analysis Summary
AI Security Analysis
The site is the well-known Pornhub adult platform with matching title, meta description, and login forms. Its domain age exceeds 25 years with valid SSL from DigiCert and zero flags from our antivirus network. The hosting IP carries a moderate abuse score and 19 reports, but this does not affect the main domain. Evidence shows the company is registered and active under Aylo in Canada. User complaints focus on billing and age verification rather than outright fraud, while phishing reports target fake impersonator domains instead of the real site.
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
This is the standard Pornhub age-verification landing page with no scam indicators visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for pornhub.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain age exceeds 25 years (9345 days as provided)
- Owned and operated by Aylo Holdings (rebranded from MindGeek in 2023), private equity owned by Ethical Capital Partners
- FTC and Utah filed complaint Sept 2025 alleging deception regarding CSAM/NCM moderation on Pornhub and related sites
- Pornhub official blog (2023) warns models of phishing emails from fake accounts/domains
- PissedConsumer lists 561 reviews (avg 2.5/5) with frequent billing/refund complaints
- Trustpilot reviews for pornhub.fr include complaints about age verification and billing resets
- Snopes documented 2022 email scam impersonating Pornhub subscription confirmations
- Snopesopen
"A scam email that claimed to be from Pornhub asked users to confirm your subscribe for a subscription confirmation and said to stop receiving these emails from ..."
- Pornhub Model Blogopen
"Attention all Pornhub Models! Please be aware of phishing scams which involve malicious attempts to obtain your personal information. These attempts may appear in the form of emails or direct messages and include suspicious links or attachm"
- Trustpilot (pornhub.fr)open
"i went to the site .They have this age verification scam set up each time you pay you take pic of your I D card but when you go back it resets to start ..."
- PissedConsumeropen
"I paid for access and was never able to get on the videos!!! This was a total rip off. I would highly suggest not subscribing."
- Reddit (r/ComputerHardware)open
"Pornhub is generally fine, just try to avoid clicking links and ads as much as possible. As a general rule, if something seems sketchy, it most likely is."
- Reddit (r/TooAfraidToAsk)open
"Pornhub is a legit company. Those "sex" banner ads that you see on PH are advertisers trying to get you to sign up to a dating website or some ..."
Owned by Aylo (formerly MindGeek), acquired by Ethical Capital Partners in 2023; private company with ~1,400 employees historically
Our research found four scam-related mentions, mostly phishing emails pretending to be from Pornhub and billing complaints on independent review aggregator and PissedConsumer. Two positive discussions on Reddit describe the site as legitimate when users avoid suspicious ads. Business records confirm ownership by Aylo Holdings with active Canadian registration.
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 phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Scam family match: Tech-Support Scam.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (support@pornhub.com).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://pornhub.com/
- 2301https://pornhub.com/
- 3200https://www.pornhub.com/cross-domain
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.
- Classic tech-support scare copy found (fake Microsoft/Apple alert, remote-access instructions).
- Primary scraped category: fake tech-support page.
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.
- Classic tech-support scare copy found (fake Microsoft/Apple alert, remote-access instructions).
- Primary scraped category: fake tech-support page.
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on pornhub.com and not a lookalike like p-ornhub.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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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 found no threat indicators on pornhub.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- pornhub.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 75/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. pornhub.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · DigiCert Global G3 TLS ECC SHA384 2020 CA1, expiring in 240 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- pornhub.com is 25.6 years old, registered on 10/31/2000 through EuroDNS S.A.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report pornhub.com as clean.
- No. pornhub.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- pornhub.com resolves to an IP operated by Reflected Networks, 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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