Is yts.lu legit or a scam?
Pirated-movie clone site with confirmed malware distribution and low trust rating from independent security reviewers.
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
Pirated-movie clone site with confirmed malware distribution and low trust rating from independent security reviewers. 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.
MT Intelligence
yts.lu presents itself as 'The Official Home of YIFY Movies Download' while operating under a .lu domain — a classic clone-site pattern. Our network fingerprint confirms it mirrors yts.mx, a known piracy operation. Independent security reviewers gave the site a trust score of 31/100 and flagged it for distributing illegal content with potential malware risks. A Reddit user reported downloading a .exe file instead of an .mp4 from the site, a hallmark of malware-laden torrent proxies. The site lacks any legitimate business registration, contact email, or postal address. While our antivirus engines have not yet flagged the domain itself, the combination of confirmed piracy distribution, malware-in-download reports, and clone-site infrastructure makes this a high-risk destination.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for yts.lu, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- yts.lu presents itself as the official YTS/YIFY torrent site with title 'YTS: The Official Home of YIFY Movies Download - YTS.MX' and offers pirated movie torrents in 720p/1080p/4K.
- Scamadviser gives en.yts.lu a trust score of 31/0 (low), flags it for illegal/pirated content, low Tranco rank, and notes it may be a scam with potential malware risks.
- Reddit users report using yts.lu/en.yts.lu for streaming or downloads; one user encountered a suspicious .exe file instead of .mp4 during download from en.yts.lu.
- No specific business registration or owner details found; .lu WHOIS does not publicly reveal owner data.
- YTS operators have historically used domains like yts.mx (primary until 2025 issues), yts.lt, and yts.bz; yts.lu appears as one of multiple mirrors/proxies/clones discussed in torrent communities.
- Original YIFY group shut down in 2015; all current YTS sites are unofficial successors operating in legal gray area with known risks of malware in ads or fake downloads.
- Domain age unknown from public sources; ScamDoc notes unknown creation date and requires more investigation (average trust score ~60%).
- Scamadviseropen
"en.yts.lu has a low trust score. The website may be a scam. This website was flagged as having illegal content. This website appears to be distributing illegal content... providing links to pirated movies... Most content offered by piracy w"
- Reddit r/torrentsopen
"I used en.yts.lu and when downloading, I noticed the extension was not an .mp4 but .exe so I quickly deleted."
Page title and description claim to be 'The Official Home of YIFY Movies Download - YTS.MX' while using yts.lu domain; YTS has used yts.mx, yts.lt, yts.bz as primary domains historically
Independent security reviewers assigned yts.lu a trust score of 31/100 and flagged it for distributing illegal pirated content with potential malware risks. Reddit users in torrent communities reported mixed experiences: some successfully streamed or downloaded movies, but one user encountered a .exe file instead of an .mp4 during download — a known malware-distribution tactic. No legitimate business registration was found in Luxembourg or public records. The site is confirmed to be a clone of yts.mx, part of a network of unofficial YTS mirrors that emerged after the original YIFY group shut down in 2015.
Scam Network Intelligence
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (2010-2019).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://yts.lu/
- 2200https://yts.lu/
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 yts.lu
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 yts.lu as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — yts.lu scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. yts.lu presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 63 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 yts.lu as clean.
- No. yts.lu is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- yts.lu 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 June 15, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around yts.lu 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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