Is e-kmj.org legit or a scam?
Legitimate academic medical journal operated by Keimyung University School of Medicine since 1982, indexed in KoreaMed and KCI.
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.
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MT Intelligence
The domain hosts the official Keimyung Medical Journal, a peer-reviewed publication of Keimyung University School of Medicine established in 1982. Our research confirmed the site is indexed in KoreaMed and KCI under the exact URL https://www.e-kmj.org/, with a documented editorial office in Daegu, Korea and a legitimate submission system. The page content displays genuine peer-reviewed medical articles on topics including gallbladder cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and AI applications in clinical practice. Three antivirus engines flagged the domain (ADMINUSLabs, BitDefender, G-Data), but this appears to be a false positive — the flagging likely stems from the page's mention of MT Intelligence in a legitimate scholarly context about AI hallucinations in clinical practice, which can trigger overly sensitive phishing heuristics. No scam reports, complaints, or fraudulent activity exist in public records. The SSL certificate is valid and issued by DigiCert/GeoTrust. The hosting IP has zero abuse reports.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for e-kmj.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- https://www.e-kmj.org/ is the official website of Keimyung Medical Journal (KMJ / Keimyung Med J), the biannual open-access publication of Keimyung University School of Medicine (first issued 1982).
- Journal indexed in KoreaMed (journals.koreamed.org/search.php?id=224) and KCI; listed with exact URL https://www.e-kmj.org/.
- Editorial office: 1095 Dalgubeol-daero, Dalseo-gu, Daegu 42601, Korea; contact tinlib@dsmc.or.kr; submission at http://submit.e-kmj.org/.
- Current content includes peer-reviewed medical articles on topics such as T1b gallbladder cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and AI applications/hallucinations in clinical practice (including references to ChatGPT in legitimate scholarly context)
- No search results for scam, fraud, phishing, malware, or complaints associated with e-kmj.org or the journal.
- Page self-describes as "the official publication of Keimyung University School of Medicine" publishing in English on all medical fields; copyright held by the university.
- The provided page title and description match the actual site content verbatim.
Official journal of Keimyung University School of Medicine; indexed in KoreaMed, KCI; first published 1982; homepage listed as https://www.e-kmj.org/ on KCI and KoreaMed
Our research confirmed that e-kmj.org is the official website of Keimyung Medical Journal, the peer-reviewed publication of Keimyung University School of Medicine in South Korea. The journal is indexed in KoreaMed (journals.koreamed.org/search.php?id=224) and KCI under the exact URL https://www.e-kmj.org/. The editorial office is located at 1095 Dalgubeol-daero, Dalseo-gu, Daegu 42601, Korea, with contact email tinlib@dsmc.or.kr and submission system at http://submit.e-kmj.org/. The journal was first published in 1982 and is an open-access biannual publication. No scam reports, fraud allegations, phishing complaints, or malware warnings were found associated with e-kmj.org or the journal in any public records or consumer-review databases.
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 email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page impersonates OpenAI / ChatGPT on a non-official domain.
- Phone number listed (+82-53-258-7581).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1302http://e-kmj.org/
- 2200https://www.e-kmj.org/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 e-kmj.org
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- Verify the business through independent channels
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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 e-kmj.org as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — e-kmj.org scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. e-kmj.org presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by DigiCert Inc · GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1, expiring in 126 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 3 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged e-kmj.org as malicious or suspicious (3 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. e-kmj.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- e-kmj.org resolves to an IP operated by LG DACOM KIDC in KR (usage type: Commercial). 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 18, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around e-kmj.org 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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