No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is rutube.ru legit or a scam?
Legitimate Russian video platform founded 2006 with clean scans, active business registration, and perfect trust scores from validators.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page presents itself as a major Russian video portal offering TV, movies, and user content, matching its title and description exactly. Strongest signal is the confirmed business history: founded in 2006, now owned by Gazprom-Media with active registration in Russia. Supporting signals include clean browser blocklist status, very low IP abuse score, valid SSL certificate, and no scam families or complaints detected. Our research found one independent validator giving it a 100/100 trust score and zero scam mentions across searches. These factors together confirm a long-operating legitimate service rather than any fraudulent operation.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for rutube.ru, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Russian video hosting platform at rutube.ru founded 2006 by Oleg Volobuev and Mikhail Paulkin
- Owned by Gazprom-Media (sole owner of OOO Ruform since Dec 2020); Wikipedia pages in Russian and English confirm history and operations
- Described as Russia's leading video portal with TV, movies, user content; 77M monthly active users per Wikipedia
- Scam-detector.com assigns 100/100 trust score
- No scam, fraud or complaint reports found in web searches including Reddit and Russian terms for мошенничество
- Active apps on Google Play, RuStore; official VK presence; domain matches page title/description exactly
- Searches for 'rutube.ru scam' return discussions of site usage or unrelated scam videos hosted on it
- scam-detector.comopen
"The Scam Detector website Validator gives rutube.ru the absolute highest trust score on the platform: 100. It signals that the business is best defined by the ..."
Owned by Gazprom-Media / OOO Ruform (100% consolidated 2020); founded 2006 in Oryol by Oleg Volobuev and Mikhail Paulkin; HQ Moscow; ~80-400 employees
Our research found no scam reports or complaints for rutube.ru. Business records confirm ownership by Gazprom-Media since 2020 with the company founded in 2006. An independent validator assigned a perfect 100/100 trust score, and searches including Russian fraud terms returned only unrelated results.
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://rutube.ru/
- 2200https://rutube.ru/
Server Reputation
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 rutube.ru and not a lookalike like r-utube.ru.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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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 rutube.ru. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- rutube.ru passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 92/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. rutube.ru presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa · GlobalSign GCC R6 AlphaSSL CA 2025, expiring in 202 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. rutube.ru is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- rutube.ru resolves to an IP operated by OOO <<Ruform>> in RU (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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