No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is epicentar.mk legit or a scam?
Official site for a 19-year-old North Macedonian consulting firm with clean scans and public project records.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
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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.
Visual similarities noted — cleared by the overall checks
Our vision model noted some visual similarity to a known brand, but the domain, security records, and reputation checks confirm this is the legitimate site — so this is shown for transparency, not as a red flag.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
Intelligence
The page presents itself as the corporate site for EPI CENTAR International, a firm offering economic and legal consulting services. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP carries no abuse reports. The evidence package confirms the company was registered in November 2005 and has participated in projects with USAID, UNDP, and the EU. Two independent sources list the firm as an active partner of the Economic Chamber of North Macedonia. The only technical concern is a Let's Encrypt certificate expiring in four days, which is routine maintenance rather than a red flag. No scam reports, complaints, or clone indicators were found.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for epicentar.mk, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- EPI CENTAR International is a long-standing economic and legal consulting firm based in Skopje, North Macedonia, established in 2005.
- The domain epicentar.mk is the official website for the firm, which has implemented over 150 projects for international donors including USAID, UNDP, SIDA, and the EU.
- The company is a recognized partner of major national institutions such as the Economic Chamber of North Macedonia and the Economic Chamber of North-West Macedonia (ECNWM).
- Public records and project documentation confirm the firm's involvement in regional development, market analysis, and strategic planning across the Western Balkans.
- No reports of fraudulent activity, scams, or malicious behavior were found associated with this domain.
- Economic Chamber of North Macedoniaopen
"EPI CENTAR International... Implementing partners: Economic Chamber of Macedonia; ICT Chamber of Commerce – MASIT; Economic Chamber of North-West Macedonia."
- CMC-Globalopen
"EPI CENTAR International Ltd... Researcher USAID 'Partnership for Better Business Regulation' Project... support small-and-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in North Macedonia."
Founded November 1, 2005; operates as Epi Centar International Ltd (ЕПИ ЦЕНТАР ИНТЕРНАЦИОНАЛ).
Our research located no scam reports or consumer complaints about epicentar.mk. Two independent references confirm the company's involvement in projects with the Economic Chamber of North Macedonia and a USAID-funded initiative. Business records show the entity has operated since 2005 with active status in North Macedonia.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
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.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedContact 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 contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://epicentar.mk/
- 2301https://www.epicentar.mk/
- 3200https://www.epicentar.mk/index.php/en/
Server Reputation
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 epicentar.mk and not a lookalike like e-picentar.mk.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.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
This is the website of EPI CENTAR International, a consulting firm based in North Macedonia. The domain shows no malicious flags and the company has documented activity since 2005. No payment or login forms appear on the page.
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 epicentar.mk, 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.
- epicentar.mk passed our automated checks with a trust score of 80/100. 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 epicentar.mk), 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 epicentar.mk 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 epicentar.mk 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 — epicentar.mk 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 — epicentar.mk presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, valid for another 4 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".
- epicentar.mk resolves to an IP operated by NEOTEL AD Skopje in MK (Fixed Line ISP). 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 10, 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 epicentar.mk 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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