Is v39.www-y2mate.com safe?
http://v39.www-y2mate.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (58 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Y2mate mirror domain pairs a video-downloader front end with reported pop-up and redirect malvertising
v39.www-y2mate.com presents itself as a Y2mate YouTube downloader, offering a search/paste field and a Start button for video conversion. Independent research describes this as a mirror domain rather than the original Y2mate.com address, and warns that pop-up ads and redirects on such pages can install adware or worse, with users reporting shady push notifications and forced redirects. The site also pushes a Chrome extension download. Technical checks are clean — no Safe Browsing warning and a valid TLS connection — and the registrable domain is over four years old, but the operator is not disclosed and no direct contact email was found on the captured page. The combination of an undisclosed operator, a mirror-domain pattern, and adverse malvertising reports places this in the High Risk band.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 42/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 4 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "The site also uses a mirror domain instead of the original Y2mate.com address."
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Pop-up ads and redirects can install adware or worse. Users report shady push notifications and forced redirects."
- ModerateThe page promotes a 'DOWNLOAD Chrome Extension', a browser-level install path with no independent provenance evidence in the dossier.
- MinorNo direct contact email was found on the captured page, and the operator is not disclosed.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 1639 days old, indicating a long-standing operation rather than a brand-new throwaway domain.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
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01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
v39.www-y2mate.com presents itself as a Y2mate YouTube downloader, offering a search/paste field and a Start button for video conversion. Independent research describes this as a mirror domain rather than the original Y2mate.com address, and warns that pop-up ads and redirects on such pages can install adware or worse, with users reporting shady push notifications and forced redirects. The site also pushes a Chrome extension download. Technical checks are clean — no Safe Browsing warning and a valid TLS connection — and the registrable domain is over four years old, but the operator is not disclosed and no direct contact email was found on the captured page. The combination of an undisclosed operator, a mirror-domain pattern, and adverse malvertising reports places this in the High Risk band.
Mirror-domain pattern and reported malvertising
Research evidence states that the site uses a mirror domain instead of the original Y2mate.com address. This is consistent with the site's own branding as 'Y2mate - Youtube Downloader' on the v39.www-y2mate.com host, and with the presence of language links pointing to a separate wvw-y2mate.com host, indicating a network of regional mirror sites rather than a single canonical service.
A second research item warns that pop-up ads and redirects on this type of page can install adware or worse, and that users report shady push notifications and forced redirects. This is adverse external evidence describing harm, not merely a directory listing. The site's own primary interaction — a Start button for conversion — is the kind of control that such malvertising flows are commonly attached to.
The site also promotes a 'DOWNLOAD Chrome Extension', which is a browser-level install path that can carry additional risk if the extension is not from an official store or is bundled with unwanted software. No independent verification of that extension's provenance is present in the evidence.
Clean technical checks do not offset operator opacity
The browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection. These are supportive technical facts, but they only mean no detection was recorded at scan time; they do not establish that the operator or the advertising supply chain is safe.
The registrable domain is 1639 days old, which is a supportive longevity signal and argues against a brand-new throwaway domain. However, age alone does not disclose who runs the service or how it monetizes visitors.
No direct contact email was found on the captured page, and the operator is not disclosed. Combined with the mirror-domain pattern, this leaves the party responsible for the site's ads, redirects, and extension promotion unidentified.
Why the score is 42
2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "The site also uses a mirror domain instead of the original Y2mate.com address.". Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsSaved analysis from October 10, 2026 - stale
No detections across 58 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 35 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- BitDefendercomputersandsoftware
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerinformation technology
- Googledownloads_and_sharing
- Sophosdownload freeware and shareware
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
Y2mate - Youtube Downloader DOWNLOAD Chrome Extension
What the captured page showed
2 observations- 01
Y2mate - Youtube Downloader
- 02
DOWNLOAD Chrome Extension
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Y2mate - Youtube Downloader | Download Youtube Video Free
- Meta description
Y2mate is a Popular free YouTube video Downloader that allows users to easily convert and download videos from YouTube in High quality quickly and easily.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/about-us/Read
- Terms/terms-condition/Read
- Contact page/contact/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Y2mate - Youtube Downloader | Download Youtube Video Free
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 58 antivirus results.
What independent research found
2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 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
Aggressive Ads & Malvertising
Service and business model
Downloader
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 012 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "The site also uses a mirror domain instead of the original Y2mate.com address."
- 022 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Pop-up ads and redirects can install adware or worse. Users report shady push notifications and forced redirects."
- 03No direct contact email was found on the captured page, and the operator is not disclosed.
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What a visitor actually encounters
A visitor arrives on a page branded as a Y2mate YouTube downloader and is invited to paste a link and press Start to convert a video. That action is the primary conversion CTA on the page.
If this is a scam, how it works
The evidence-backed path
Each stage below is preserved from the grounded analysis and linked to saved evidence.
According to the adverse research, the environment around such downloader pages includes pop-up ads and redirects that can install adware or worse, with users reporting shady push notifications and forced redirects. The exposure therefore begins at the point of using the downloader, not only after a file is saved.
The page additionally offers a Chrome extension download. Installing a browser extension from a mirror downloader site expands the visitor's exposure to the browser itself, beyond the single video-conversion task.
Avoid using this mirror domain for downloads. If you need to convert or download a video, use a reputable service or the platform's own official tools, and do not install the Chrome extension offered here. If you have already used the site, review your browser extensions and notification permissions, and remove anything you did not intentionally install.
Web research findings
Independent findings for v39.www-y2mate.com, 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.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
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.
- Domainv39.www-y2mate.com
- Redirects tov39.www-y2mate.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesv1.y2mate-uk.com · wvw-y2mate.com
Domain Timeline
- Apr 22, 2022Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 4 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 18, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
v39.www-y2mate.com is an established domain now carrying threat signals. An older domain that starts tripping security checks is a classic pattern for an asset that was sold, repurposed, or compromised — the age alone is not reassurance.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No direct contact email found on the captured page.
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Certificate issued for www-y2mate.com.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://v39.www-y2mate.com/
- 2200https://v39.www-y2mate.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "The site also uses a mirror domain instead of the original Y2mate.com address." · 2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Pop-up ads and redirects can install adware or worse. Users report shady push notifications and forced redirects."
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Oct 10, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 18, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 18, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 2 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 18, 2026 |
| Independent research | 2 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Oct 18, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 10, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 18, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 18, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result2 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 18, 2026
- Independent research
- Result2 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 18, 2026
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 it safe to download from v39.www-y2mate.com?
Is v39.www-y2mate.com safe to use?
Will I get a virus from v39.www-y2mate.com?
Why does v39.www-y2mate.com show several "Download" buttons?
Has v39.www-y2mate.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is v39.www-y2mate.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the v39.www-y2mate.com domain?
Does v39.www-y2mate.com have a valid SSL certificate?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Y2mate mirror domain pairs a video-downloader front end with reported pop-up and redirect malvertising
v39.www-y2mate.com presents itself as a Y2mate YouTube downloader, offering a search/paste field and a Start button for video conversion. Independent research describes this as a mirror domain rather than the original Y2mate.com address, and warns that pop-up ads and redirects on such pages can install adware or worse, with users reporting shady push notifications and forced redirects. The site also pushes a Chrome extension download. Technical checks are clean — no Safe Browsing warning and a valid TLS connection — and the registrable domain is over four years old, but the operator is not disclosed and no direct contact email was found on the captured page. The combination of an undisclosed operator, a mirror-domain pattern, and adverse malvertising reports places this in the High Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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