No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is vtb.ru legit or a scam?
Official VTB Bank site with clean scans, valid SSL, and registration dating to 1990 as a major state-owned Russian bank.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page displays standard banking services for VTB Bank including cards, loans, and mortgages in Russian. No malware detections appeared across our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned clean. The hosting IP shows zero abuse reports and the SSL certificate is valid. Evidence confirms this is the primary registered domain for the real bank, listed on official Russian financial registries since 1990. One isolated complaint exists but is outweighed by business registration details and positive employee feedback on independent sites.
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 vtb.ru, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official website of Банк ВТБ (ПАО) / VTB Bank (PJSC), Russia's second-largest bank by assets, state-owned with ~60.9% stake by Federal Agency for State Property Management.
- Domain vtb.ru confirmed as official in CBR registry (ИНН 7702070139, ОГРН 1027739609391, registered 17.10.1990) and Wikipedia.
- Bank maintains dedicated security pages warning about phishing, SMS fraud, and impersonation scams targeting customers.
- Subdomains (e.g., pay.vtb.ru, db.vtb.ru) rated 'legit and reliable' by Scamadviser.
- Employee reviews on Glassdoor: 78% would recommend VTB Bank as employer.
- No evidence of domain being a typosquat or clone of another brand; it is the primary domain for the real VTB Bank.
- Reddit discussions reference VTB accounts and services in context of normal banking in Russia.
- WikiFXopen
"Scam and 1 more time scam. I asked for a refund. And they still keep calling me."
Registered with Central Bank of Russia (CBR) since 17.10.1990; ИНН 7702070139, ОГРН 1027739609391; PJSC, majority state-owned.
Our research found one scam report on WikiFX describing refund issues. Three positive references appeared, including Glassdoor reviews where 78% of employees recommend the bank. The domain is confirmed as the official site of VTB Bank with active registration since 1990 and majority state ownership. Four general complaints were noted but no widespread fraud patterns.
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 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://vtb.ru/
- 2301https://vtb.ru/
- 3503https://www.vtb.ru/cross-domain
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 vtb.ru and not a lookalike like v-tb.ru.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 vtb.ru. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- vtb.ru passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 89/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. vtb.ru presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa · GlobalSign GCC R3 DV TLS CA 2020, expiring in 125 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report vtb.ru as clean.
- No. vtb.ru is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- vtb.ru resolves to an IP operated by VTB Bank (Public Joint-Stock Company) in RU (usage type: Commercial). 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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