SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

Security Review

Is ema.europa.eu legit or a scam?

This looks safe to use.

Official EMA government site on europa.eu with clean scans, valid SSL, and no scam indicators.

Cross-checked against 8 independent sources — none raised a concern
ema.europa.euScanned 1h ago
0/100
Trust score
0 = danger · 100 = safe
SAFE
Score breakdown
Heuristics 94·MT 95
Screenshot of ema.europa.euSee the live page ↓
Positive signals (4)
Antivirus clearNot on major blacklistsEncrypted connectionClean server reputation
View density

Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
Registration date unknown

Website Preview

Screenshot of ema.europa.eu
LIVE RENDER
ema.europa.eu

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.

Visual 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.

0
/ 100
No visual red flags

No scam visual patterns detected

The website appears to be a legitimate, fully-rendered official portal for the European Medicines Agency with no visual indicators of a scam or clone.

Visual risk0/100

What our vision model saw

6 signals

Official branding of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is present

Standard European Union banner 'An official website of the European Union' is visible

Professional navigation menu with categories for medicines and regulatory information

Standard cookie consent banner with links to privacy and analytics information

Content is current and relevant to the stated date of July 2026

High-quality layout and design consistent with a government agency portal

Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
Analysis
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust95/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The page carries the correct European Medicines Agency branding and the standard EU official-website banner. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP shows zero abuse reports. The domain belongs to the verified europa.eu infrastructure used by EU institutions. The evidence package confirms this is the legitimate EMA site and notes that the agency itself warns about third-party scammers impersonating it. No login forms, payment requests, or suspicious redirects appear on the page. Visual analysis shows professional government-agency layout with current content and no clone indicators.
Positive Signals
5
  • Zero detections from our antivirus network across 92 engines.
  • Valid SSL certificate issued by Amazon with 192 days remaining.
  • Hosting IP shows zero abuse reports and zero reputation risk.
  • Domain belongs to the official europa.eu infrastructure for EU institutions.
  • Visual analysis confirms authentic government branding and layout.
The full analysis

Page Content

The page displays the full European Medicines Agency branding with navigation for medicines, regulatory information, committees, and public health threats. It includes language selection for all EU languages and carries the official EU banner. No login forms, payment fields, or data-collection prompts are present. The body text covers medicine evaluation, safety monitoring, and current regulatory updates.

Infrastructure

The site runs on IP 18.184.99.46 with a valid Amazon-issued SSL certificate that has 192 days remaining. Our sandbox recorded no malicious behaviour and the IP carries a zero abuse score. Two redirects occurred but stayed within the same domain family. External resources load only from other official europa.eu subdomains plus trusted platforms such as YouTube and LinkedIn.

Domain History

The domain is a subdomain of europa.eu, the official top-level domain reserved for European Union institutions. Business registration records confirm EMA as an active decentralised EU agency established in 1995 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. WHOIS data was unavailable for this subdomain, which is typical for government infrastructure.

Web Reputation

Our research found one relevant result: the EMA site itself publishes warnings about fraudulent third parties using its name in phishing emails and fake invoices. No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions appear against the official domain. Independent review aggregators returned no entries, which is expected for an official government site.

What this means for you

The site is the genuine European Medicines Agency portal. Users can safely browse medicine information and regulatory content. EMA states it never requests payments or sends unsolicited links, so any such messages claiming to come from EMA should be treated as scams.

AI Recommendation
Browse the site normally for official medicine and regulatory information. Ignore any emails or messages claiming to be from EMA that ask for payment or contain links.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for ema.europa.eu, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration
Active · Netherlands
Site traces back to an actively registered business.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
1 scam report
Key findings
5 headline facts from open-web research
  • Official website of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), a European Union body responsible for medicine safety.
  • The domain is a subdomain of europa.eu, which is the official top-level domain for European Union institutions.
  • EMA explicitly states they never ask citizens for payment or send unsolicited communications.
  • The site provides an authenticity verification system for electronic certificates issued by the agency.
  • Public warnings exist regarding third-party scammers impersonating EMA via fake invoices and phishing emails.
Scam reports (1)
Direct quotes from public scam databases, forums, and news.
  • europa.euopen

    "EMA is aware of cases where fraudulent third parties using EMA's credentials approach citizens to request money or send phishing emails that appear to come from EMA but contain malicious links."

Business registration
Status: active · Netherlands

Decentralised agency of the European Union established in 1995; headquartered in Amsterdam.

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

Our research located one relevant item: the EMA site itself publishes guidance on recognising scams and phishing attempts that misuse its name. No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions were found against ema.europa.eu. The evidence confirms this is the verified official domain for the European Medicines Agency.

Threat Detection

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious58Harmless92Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not queried
ESET-NOD32
Not queried
Avira
Not queried
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Clean
Emsisoft
Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

Technical Details

The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.

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.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbers88 781 6000
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles2
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Phone number listed (88 781 6000).
  • Links to 2 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerAmazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01
ExpiresJan 20, 2027 (192d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingA100 ROW GmbH
Server locationDE
Platform / CMSDrupal

Redirect Chain

Hops
2
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://ema.europa.eu/
  • 2301https://www.ema.europa.eu/
  • 3200https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/homepage

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPA100 ROW GmbH
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

What to do

Still, stay alert

No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.

  • Double-check the exact URL in your address bar

    Confirm you are actually on ema.europa.eu and not a lookalike like e-ma.europa.eu.com or an IDN homoglyph.

  • Use a password manager

    Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.

  • Discuss this site on the forum

    If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.

    Open

Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·ema.europa.eu
SAFE

This is the official website of the European Medicines Agency, a European Union body. The domain sits under the official europa.eu infrastructure with clean scans and no malicious indicators. No payment or login forms are present.

Browse the site normally for official medicine and regulatory information. Ignore any emails or messages claiming to be from EMA that ask for payment or contain links.

AV engines
92
Domain age
Flagged
0
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Safety FAQ

Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.

  • Our automated security review found no threat indicators on ema.europa.eu, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
  • ema.europa.eu passed our automated checks with a trust score of 95/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
  • Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from ema.europa.eu), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from ema.europa.eu is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
  • No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report ema.europa.eu as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
  • No — ema.europa.eu is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
  • Yes — ema.europa.eu presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M01, valid for another 192 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
  • ema.europa.eu resolves to an IP operated by A100 ROW GmbH in DE (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
  • This report is a record of the scan run on July 12, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about ema.europa.eu has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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