Is v23.www-y2mate.com legit or a scam?
This y2mate clone is a dangerous media downloader that distributes trojans and adware through fake buttons and malicious browser extensions.
Score breakdown
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
This y2mate clone is a dangerous media downloader that distributes trojans and adware through fake buttons and malicious browser extensions. 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. See full visual analysis →
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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The site presents as a typical media downloader which carries inherent risks of aggressive advertising, potentially unwanted extensions, and copyright infringement facilitation.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsProminent 'Download Chrome Extension' floating button which often leads to adware or browser hijackers
Service facilitates downloading copyrighted content from YouTube and other social platforms
Minimalist layout designed to funnel users into a single input field for external links
Mentions of 'Y2meta' in the body text while the header says 'Y2mate' suggests inconsistent branding or template reuse
Claims of being 'reliable, user-friendly and completely free' without visible monetization beyond potential extension installs
MT Intelligence
The domain is a known mirror of a service that was legally shut down in late 2025, suggesting this version is operated by third parties for malicious purposes. Our analysis identified a visual risk score of 65 due to a prominent 'Download Chrome Extension' button, which is a common delivery method for browser hijackers. Security researchers and user reports on Reddit and tech news sites confirm that visiting this specific network leads to trojan infections and aggressive redirects. The site also exhibits inconsistent branding, switching between 'Y2mate' and 'Y2meta', which is a hallmark of low-quality scam templates. While the domain itself is over four years old, its current behavior is focused on distributing potentially unwanted programs.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for v23.www-y2mate.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain v23.www-y2mate.com appears to be a mirror/subdomain variant of y2mate.com (YouTube downloader service).
- y2mate.com registered August 10, 2016 (approx. 9 years 10 months old as of 2026).
- Multiple user reports on Reddit of malware, trojans, redirects, and adware after visiting y2mate sites.
- y2mate.com and 11 other stream-ripping sites permanently shut down in October 2025 following IFPI enforcement action in Vietnam.
- ScamAdviser and similar checkers rate similar vXX.www-y2mate.com subdomains as 'legit/safe' with valid SSL.
- No Trustpilot, ScamDoc, or official business registration records found for the service.
- Common complaints center on aggressive pop-ups, fake download buttons, and redirects to malicious sites rather than direct financial scams.
- Mediumopen
"Y2mate is a website that allows users to download video and audio from YouTube. However, Y2mate also contains a lot of malware downloads, ads, links, and pop-ups, all of which can redirect users to unsafe sites."
- Comparitechopen
"The short answer: No, Y2Mate is not safe. ... Malicious sites: Y2Mate users are often bombarded with intrusive ads and pop-ups, many of which lead to websites with nefarious intents."
- Reddit r/malwaresopen
"Used Y2Mate to download a YouTube video yesterday and now my PC is infected with malware. Ran Malwarebytes and found 3 trojans - that site is dangerous, don't use it."
- Reddit r/softwareopen
"Yeah I've used it plenty of times. You just might get a few ads on the way. But yeah, it's safe!"
Domain uses subdomain pattern v23.www-y2mate.com mirroring known y2mate mirrors (v22.www-y2mate.com, en1.y2mate.is); page title/description identical to y2mate service.
Scam Network Intelligence
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Technical checksdomain · encryption · redirects · server reputation
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://v23.www-y2mate.com/
- 2200https://v23.www-y2mate.com/
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 v23.www-y2mate.com
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 v23.www-y2mate.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — v23.www-y2mate.com scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. v23.www-y2mate.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE2, expiring in 81 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- v23.www-y2mate.com is 4.2 years old, registered on 4/22/2022 through Web Commerce Communications Limited dba WebNic.cc. 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 v23.www-y2mate.com as clean.
- No. v23.www-y2mate.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- v23.www-y2mate.com 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 July 3, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around v23.www-y2mate.com 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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