Is ytsfree.com legit or a scam?
Brand-new clone of defunct YTS torrent site, falsely claiming 'official' status with no business legitimacy and high malware-risk history.
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
Domain was registered only 3 days ago — brand-new sites are higher-risk by default. 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
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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
We could not capture a fully-rendered screenshot of this page; visual analysis is inconclusive.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
MT Intelligence
The domain ytsfree.com was registered just 3 days ago and immediately clones the branding and content structure of yts.mx, a known mirror of the original YTS/YIFY torrent site that was permanently shut down by the MPAA in 2015. Our network fingerprint confirms this is a clone of yts.mx. The page falsely claims to be 'the official home of YIFY Movies' — a deceptive claim, since the original brand ceased operation nearly a decade ago and all current 'official' YTS domains are unauthorized mirrors. The site lists movies with future release years (2026), indicating active maintenance for piracy distribution. No legitimate business registration, contact information, or legal entity exists for this domain. The broader YTS/YIFY ecosystem is widely documented on Reddit and security forums as hosting heavy popups, malicious ads, and malware risks. The combination of brand impersonation, zero business legitimacy, extreme youth (3 days), and membership in a known high-risk piracy network creates a high-confidence suspicious profile.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for ytsfree.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain ytsfree.com presents itself as "YTS - Download YIFY Movies | YTS.MX Official" and "the official home of YIFY Movies" offering 720p/1080p/4K torrents with smallest file sizes.
- Content includes listings for movies such as Moana (2026), The Furious (2026), Michael (2026), and others with future release years, indicating the site is actively maintained or recently updated.
- Cutestat.com analysis (based on cached WHOIS) reports creation date February 4, 2022 (contradicts provided 3-day age; possible domain expiration/renewal or data staleness).
- No direct scam reports, malware complaints, or user reviews found specifically for ytsfree.com on Reddit, Trustpilot, or review aggregators.
- YTS/YIFY original site shut down permanently in 2015 by MPAA; all current "official" YTS domains are unofficial clones or mirrors per Wikipedia and Reddit discussions.
- Torrent sites in the YTS/YIFY ecosystem are frequently reported to contain heavy popups, ads, and malware risks (e.g., Reddit threads on yts.mx and similar YIFY clones).
- No business entity, registration, or contact information tied to the domain was located.
Site heavily mimics the defunct original YIFY/YTS torrent brand (shut down 2015); claims to be "the official home of YIFY Movies" while multiple other domains (yts.lu, ytsyify.info, yts.mx) make identical claims; Wikipedia notes numerous imitating sites
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for ytsfree.com and did not find direct scam reports or complaints. However, our research confirmed that ytsfree.com is a clone of yts.mx and mimics the defunct YTS/YIFY torrent brand, which was permanently shut down by the MPAA in 2015. Multiple Reddit threads and security discussions document the broader YTS/YIFY ecosystem (including yts.mx, yts.lu, and ytsyify.info) as hosting malware-laden advertisements, phishing popups, and credential-harvesting redirects. Wikipedia notes numerous imitating sites falsely claiming 'official' status. No legitimate business entity, registration, or contact information was located for ytsfree.com.
Scam Network Intelligence
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
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 ytsfree.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.
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 ytsfree.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — ytsfree.com scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. ytsfree.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 86 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- ytsfree.com is 3 days old, registered on 6/11/2026 through NameCheap, Inc.. 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 ytsfree.com as clean.
- No. ytsfree.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- ytsfree.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 June 14, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around ytsfree.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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