Yandex Browser

Name: Yandex Browser
Author: Yandex

by Yandex · Freeware

Yandex Browser delivers fast and secure browsing with built-in Alice and the ability to sync passwords, bookmarks, and bank cards across devices.

Record

These URLs are the ones Yandex declares in its own manifest. We do not proxy or shorten them, and we do not host a copy.

exeuser scopedownload.cdn.yandex.net · publisher-owned

Run this against the file on disk. If the output does not match the hash below, the file is not what Yandex published. Delete it.

Windows · PowerShell

Get-FileHash "Yandex.exe" -Algorithm SHA256

macOS · Linux

shasum -a 256 "Yandex.exe"

Expected output

3ea815e6b5892b949888271f29bb98a8951512fed2c4fafdd318d07c1d606009

Signal	Finding	Points
SHA-256 hash published	1 of 1 installers ship a SHA-256 hashWithout a published hash there is no way to prove the file you downloaded is the file the publisher built.	30 / 30
Binary provenance	1 on a domain owned by the publisherThe strongest signal against a repackaged installer: the file should come from the publisher, not from a mirror nobody vouches for.	35 / 35
Served over HTTPS	1 of 1 over HTTPSAn installer fetched over plain HTTP can be modified in transit.	15 / 15
Release recency	last release about 0 months agoSoftware that has not shipped in years accumulates unpatched vulnerabilities.	15 / 15
Licence declared	FreewareA declared licence tells you what you are actually allowed to do with the software.	5 / 5

Extensions Yandex Browser registers itself to handle.

Every version with a published manifest, newest first. Useful when you need an older build for compatibility.

Windows manifest: github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifests/y/Yandex/Browser/26.6.3.870