Is yesmovies.ag legit or a scam?
Illegal piracy platform hosting copyrighted movies and games, flagged by antivirus engines and documented as a malware-ad vector by security researchers.
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
Critical risk detected
3 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. Multiple independent checks — antivirus engines, browser safety blocklists, and threat databases — flagged this site. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
YesMovies.ag operates as part of a long-running piracy network distributing copyrighted films, TV shows, games, and software cracks without authorization. Three antivirus engines (Chong Lua Dao, CRDF, CyRadar) classify it as malicious, and three others flag it as suspicious. Independent security researchers consistently report that the site relies on heavy ad networks, pop-ups, and redirects that lead to phishing pages and malware distribution. The domain is registered in Vietnam with redacted ownership details, and scam-report aggregators assign it a trust score of 0/100 due to unlawful content and hidden operator identity. While our sandbox did not detect direct malware payload delivery, the documented pattern of malicious redirects and ad-injection attacks creates a high-risk environment for users.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for yesmovies.ag, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered 2019-09-26 via Tucows, expires 2031-09-26; registrant details redacted for privacy, listed in Vietnam
- Scamadviser trust score 0/100: "Very Likely Unsafe" due to hidden owner identity and unlawful content (pirated movies, games, cracks)
- Multiple sources classify YesMovies sites (including .ag) as illegal piracy platforms hosting copyrighted material without authorization
- Heavy reliance on ads, pop-ups, and redirects reported, with risks of malware, phishing, and privacy breaches noted in reviews
- Frequently recommended in Reddit piracy communities (r/Piracy, r/PiracyArchive) as a working free streaming mirror
- High traffic (hundreds of thousands of visits/month per SimilarWeb/Semrush data); one of several competing YesMovies domains
- No evidence of direct malware distribution in scans, but piracy-related risks (copyright infringement, malicious ads) are consistently highlighted
- Scamadviseropen
"This website has been identified as having unlawful content. This website appears to be spreading illegal content. This is achieved by providing links to pirated movies and video games, as well as commercial software keys and cracks."
- vpswala.orgopen
"Yes, YesMovies is unsafe for the majority of the users. Yesmovie, known as illegal movie streaming website... YesMovies is neither safe nor legal to use."
- iTop Screen Recorderopen
"YesMovies is neither safe nor legal to use. Although YesMovies doesn’t directly bundle malware or virus, it is supported by heavy pop-ups, ads and links that probably redirect you to malicious websites or phishing attempts."
Independent security researchers and scam-report aggregators consistently identify YesMovies.ag as an illegal piracy platform. an independent review aggregator assigns a trust score of 0/100, citing unlawful content (pirated movies, games, software cracks) and hidden operator identity. Multiple sources report the site relies on heavy ad networks, pop-ups, and redirects that lead to phishing pages and malware distribution. Security analysts note that while the site does not directly bundle malware, the malicious ad ecosystem creates a high-risk environment for users. No positive reviews or legitimate business registration were found.
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://yesmovies.ag/
- 2301https://yesmovies.ag/
- 3200https://ww2.yesmovies.ag/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Avoid this site
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Do not interact with yesmovies.ag
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Verify the business through independent channels
Check the company's social profiles, registry records, and search for recent news or reviews that are not hosted on the site itself.
- Never use irreversible payment methods
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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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags yesmovies.ag as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — yesmovies.ag scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. yesmovies.ag presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 56 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 6 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged yesmovies.ag as malicious or suspicious (3 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. yesmovies.ag is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- yesmovies.ag 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.
- Yes. yesmovies.ag sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 15, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around yesmovies.ag 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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