ABUSE NOTICE · 7D+ OPEN
Outgoing abuse reports are recorded; the latest stored availability evidence still shows the domain reachable.
Notification and current-status evidence
The sent-report ledger records the first outgoing report at .
The recorded recipient is abuse@registrar.eu.
The latest stored availability evidence still shows the domain reachable; 1 month has elapsed since the first outgoing report.
ICANN RAA §3.18 describes registrar abuse-contact and handling obligations.
This section records outgoing timestamps, listed recipients, case identifiers, and later availability. It does not by itself prove receipt, acknowledgement, investigation, remediation, or contractual non-compliance.
vidmaterapp.com poses as a download site for VidMate, the popular Android video downloader, under the page title "VidMate APK – Free Video Downloader for Android". The extra "r" in the domain is a typo-style lookalike aimed at people searching for the app outside an official store. PhishDestroy first saw it on 2026-09-19 and classifies it as impersonation phishing. As of 2026-10-19 the site was still online and serving its content.
How the scam works
VidMate is not distributed through Google Play, so users are used to fetching its APK from websites. Lookalike pages exploit that habit by offering a "free" installer that the operator controls. A sideloaded package from an impersonation site can bundle adware, spyware or credential and wallet stealers, and Android permissions granted at install time can expose messages, accounts and anything stored on the phone, including crypto wallet apps.
Evidence
Six of 91 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain as of 2026-09-27: alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar and VIPRE. That count is modest, but the vendors work independently and agree. The crypto-focused blocklists MetaMask and SEAL list it alongside PhishDestroy, so wallet users get warnings, and four AlienVault OTX pulses reference the domain.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered on 2026-02-14 through Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu, about seven months before PhishDestroy detected it. That gap suggests the domain was held or quietly in use well before it was flagged. Traffic resolves to Cloudflare, Inc. address space, geolocated to Canada, which hides the real origin server. The Let's Encrypt certificate only means the padlock appears in browsers. It says nothing about legitimacy.
What to do
Do not download or install anything from this site. If you already installed its APK, uninstall it, check which permissions and device-admin rights it held, run a mobile security scan, and change passwords for accounts you used on the phone, starting with email and enabling 2FA. If a crypto wallet app lives on the same device, move funds to a new wallet created on a clean device, because seed phrases may be exposed. Defenders should block the domain, hunt for VidMate-themed APK downloads in proxy logs, and report the site to Cloudflare and the registrar.
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
Evidence layersAvailability: Content servingContent: Content served at rootDNS: ResolvedRegistration: Unknown
Latest HTTP observationコンテンツ公開中Ordinary HTTP content served90%2026-10-19 22:32:59 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-19 22:35:39 UTClast content: 2026-10-19 22:32:59 UTC
Availability, content, DNS and registration are independent evidence layers. NXDOMAIN, an unreachable origin or missing content alone does not prove registrar action. A registrar or provider is credited only when a direct technical marker identifies that actor. Report causality is shown separately.
使用技術 · 3 identified
Cloudflare Browser Insights
AnalyticsRUM
Cloudflare Browser Insights is a tool that measures the performance of websites from the perspective of users.
Cloudflare is a web-infrastructure and website-security company, providing content-delivery-network services, DDoS mitigation, Internet security, and distributed domain-name-server services.
Keep original emails, receipts, messages and screenshots in a secure place. A factual timeline helps the receiving authority understand what happened. IC3 evidence guidance ↗
Payment records — if you paid, save the receipt, amount, date, payment provider and recipient details.
Your bank or payment provider — contact its fraud team promptly through official contact details if money or card information was exposed.
地元の警察 — たとえ直ちに行動を起こせなくても、公式な記録が残される
A report is not a guarantee of recovery or investigation, but prompt, accurate transaction data can help authorities and service providers trace the incident.
詐欺による金銭の返還を装った詐欺 — fraudsters pose as recovery agents and demand upfront fees. Never share a seed phrase or pay before independently verifying the provider
About this reportSources, observation dates and corrections
This report combines saved page captures, registration and network records, scanner results and PhishDestroy reporting history. Each source keeps its own observation date. Open a source report to inspect the original result.
The AI-assisted analysis was written on . It describes the evidence available at that time; later source checks can change.
A capture documents what was shown. A scanner result records that provider’s assessment at the time of its check. Neither a valid certificate nor a zero-detection result is a guarantee of safety.
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