Is fdd.k-melloddy.com safe?

http://fdd.k-melloddy.com/

SafeStatus

Coveragestrong3 of 4 applicable core capabilities

Verdict

Government-backed research subdomain returns 403; no commercial or malicious activity detected.

fdd.k-melloddy.com is a technical subdomain of the K-MELLODDY project, a South Korean government-supported AI drug-discovery initiative. The page currently returns a 403 Forbidden response, so its own content could not be reviewed. Clean technical checks and independent research confirming the project's legitimacy support a Safe rating.

The subdomain is inaccessible and shows no commercial or malicious behavior. Visitors should treat it as a restricted research resource; no action is required unless you have an explicit project affiliation.
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Calibrated safety spectrum

Where this site sits

  1. Dangerous1–20
  2. High Risk21–44
  3. Moderate Risk45–69
  4. Low Risk70–84
  5. Safe85–100

The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.

01 · Investigation Brief

Investigation Brief

fdd.k-melloddy.com is a technical subdomain of the K-MELLODDY project, a South Korean government-supported AI drug-discovery initiative. The page currently returns a 403 Forbidden response, so its own content could not be reviewed. Clean technical checks and independent research confirming the project's legitimacy support a Safe rating.

Project identity and research evidence

Research records identify the registrable domain k-melloddy.com as belonging to the Korea Machine Learning Ledger Orchestration for Drug Discovery (K-MELLODDY), a 2024-2028 initiative backed by Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT and Ministry of Health and Welfare.

The subdomain fdd.k-melloddy.com is described as part of the project's Federated Drug Discovery (FDD) technical platform, consistent with an internal or development resource rather than a public commercial site.

Access status and security checks

The scanner received an HTTP 403 Forbidden response when attempting to load the page, preventing any review of site content, contact details, or policy text.

The browser threat feed returned no threat warning, the multi-engine malware scan reported zero malicious or suspicious detections across 93 engines, and the TLS certificate validated correctly.

Why the score is 85

The saved checks and analysis found no material threat. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.

02 · Security Evidence

Security evidence

Collected signals and independent provider data for this URL.

Antivirus Engines

0/ 93

No detections

Fresh result

No detections across 55 engines that rated this URL

No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 38 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.

Malicious
0
Suspicious
0
Total
93
All 93 engine results
  • 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
  • Abusix - Clean
  • Acronis - Clean
  • ADMINUSLabs - Clean
  • AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
  • AlienVault - Clean
  • alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
  • AlphaSOC - Unrated
  • Antiy-AVL - Clean
  • ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
  • AutoShun - Unrated
  • Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
  • BitDefender - Clean
  • Bkav - Unrated
  • BlockList - Clean
  • Blueliv - Clean
  • Certego - Clean
  • ChainPatrol - Unrated
  • Chong Lua Dao - Clean
  • CINS Army - Clean
  • CRDF - Clean
  • Criminal IP - Unrated
  • CSIS Security Group - Unrated
  • CTX AI - Clean
  • Cyan - Unrated
  • Cyble - Clean
  • CyRadar - Clean
  • desenmascara.me - Clean
  • DNS8 - Unrated
  • Dr.Web - Clean
  • EmergingThreats - Clean
  • Emsisoft - Clean
  • Ermes - Unrated
  • ESET - Clean
  • ESTsecurity - Clean
  • Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Unrated
  • Fortinet - Clean
  • Fortra - Unrated
  • G-Data - Clean
  • GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
  • Google Safe Browsing - Clean
  • GreenSnow - Clean
  • GreyNoise - Unrated
  • Gridinsoft - Unrated
  • Guardpot - Unrated
  • Heimdal Security - Clean
  • Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
  • IPsum - Clean
  • Juniper Networks - Clean
  • K7AntiVirus - Unrated
  • Kaspersky - Unrated
  • LevelBlue - Clean
  • Lionic - Clean
  • Lumu - Unrated
  • Malwared - Clean
  • MalwarePatrol - Clean
  • MalwareURL - Unrated
  • Mimecast - Unrated
  • Netcraft - Unrated
  • OpenPhish - Clean
  • Orcapot - Unrated
  • PhishFort - Unrated
  • Phishing Database - Clean
  • Phishtank - Clean
  • PREBYTES - Clean
  • PrecisionSec - Unrated
  • Quick Heal - Clean
  • Quttera - Clean
  • Rising - Clean
  • SafeToOpen - Unrated
  • Sangfor - Clean
  • Sansec eComscan - Unrated
  • Scantitan - Clean
  • SCUMWARE.org - Clean
  • Seclookup - Clean
  • Snort IP sample list - Unrated
  • SOCRadar - Unrated
  • Sophos - Clean
  • StopForumSpam - Clean
  • Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
  • Synthient - Unrated
  • ThreatHive - Clean
  • URLhaus - Clean
  • URLQuery - Unrated
  • Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
  • VIPRE - Unrated
  • ViriBack - Clean
  • VX Vault - Clean
  • Webroot - Clean
  • Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Unrated
  • Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
  • ZeroCERT - Clean
  • ZeroFox - Unrated

Security Scans

Browser Threat Feed
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.

What we observed

CAPTURED PAGE
fdd.k-melloddy.com
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

403 Forbidden

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    403 Forbidden

03 · Investigation Story

Investigation story

The behavior, reputation, and operator evidence that explains how this site may affect a visitor.
  1. What the site claims

    Independent evidence classifies the site as content, but the page's own claim could not be captured.

  2. What we observed

    The page itself could not be fully inspected, so the report relies on the other saved checks.

  3. What independent research found

    2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.

  4. What remains unverified

    1 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.

What kind of site and risk is this?

Threat category

No threat category confirmed

Service and business model

Content

Unknown

Observed behavior

No disruptive browser behavior saved

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 01HTTP 403 response means the site's own pages could not be reviewed.
  2. 02Independent research links the domain to an official government-funded drug-discovery project.

Web research findings

Independent findings for fdd.k-melloddy.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.

Business registration
Not checked
This report did not include a company-registry lookup, so no registration result is claimed.
Clone check
Not checked
No site-clone comparison was run for this report, so no clean result is claimed.
Typosquat check
Not checked
No look-alike domain comparison was run for this report, so no clean result is claimed.
Web mentions
2 positive
Positive reviews (2)
Public quotes that support the operator's credibility.
  • About us – K-MELLODDYopen

    "Korea Machine Learning Ledger Orchestration for Drug Discovery"

  • About us – K-MELLODDYopen

    "Establishment of a Federated Drug Discovery (FDD) platform for accelerated drug development"

Reputation Sources

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

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

04 · Domain & Infrastructure

Domain & infrastructure

Timeline · identity · encryption · redirects · hosting

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.

Infrastructure map

How the saved page connected to the wider web.

  1. Domainfdd.k-melloddy.com
  2. Redirects tofdd.k-melloddy.com
  3. Hosted byAWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

Domain Timeline

  1. Aug 19, 2024
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 2 years old when this review was saved.

  2. Oct 12, 2026
    Saved security review — Rated Safe

    This saved scan found no active threat signals in the checks it completed.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age2 years old
RegistrarGabia, Inc.
RegisteredAug 19, 2024
ExpiresAug 19, 2030
Owner privacyUnknown
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerAmazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04
ExpiresMar 18, 2027 (157d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingAWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Server locationKR

Redirect Chain

Hops
0
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No

The site refused our redirect check, so this chain may be incomplete.

  • 1403http://fdd.k-melloddy.com/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPAWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

Coverage, provenance, and source freshness remain separate so a missing check is never mistaken for a clean result.
  1. Antiviruscomplete
  2. Browser threat feedcomplete
  3. Page contentpartial
  4. Analysiscomplete
  5. Visual evidencepartial
Completed analysis

The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.

Technical threat

unknown

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

No confirmed evidence in this dimension.

Operator / customer risk

unknown

Complaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.

No confirmed evidence in this dimension.

Source coverage and freshness

Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.

Antivirus
Result0 of 93 engines flagged
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 12, 2026
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 12, 2026
Page content
ResultPage content was not available for semantic review
CompletionLimited
FindingNo saved finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 12, 2026
Visual evidence
ResultThe site blocked our capture or showed an error page; 1 visible observation saved
CompletionLimited
FindingNo saved finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 12, 2026
Independent research
Result2 independent findings were saved
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 12, 2026

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

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.

  1. Double-check the exact URL in your address bar

    Confirm you are actually on fdd.k-melloddy.com and not a lookalike like f-dd.k-melloddy.com or an IDN homoglyph.

  2. 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.

  3. 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

07 · Safety FAQ

Safety FAQ

Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.

Is fdd.k-melloddy.com legit and safe?
Our automated security review found no threat indicators on fdd.k-melloddy.com, so it appears legitimate. All 55 antivirus engines that rated it report it clean, and the domain is 2 years old, registered on August 19, 2024 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
Is fdd.k-melloddy.com safe to use?
fdd.k-melloddy.com has a Safety Score of 85/100 (Safe). The saved checks and analysis found no material threat at scan time. Treat unexpected login or payment requests with normal caution.
Could a legitimate site like fdd.k-melloddy.com still be used in a scam?
Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from fdd.k-melloddy.com), 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 fdd.k-melloddy.com is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
Has fdd.k-melloddy.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
No — all 55 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network that rated it report fdd.k-melloddy.com as clean. 38 other engines had no rating for it. 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.
Is fdd.k-melloddy.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — fdd.k-melloddy.com 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.
How old is the fdd.k-melloddy.com domain?
fdd.k-melloddy.com is 2 years old, registered on August 19, 2024 through Gabia, Inc. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
Does fdd.k-melloddy.com have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — fdd.k-melloddy.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, valid for another 157 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".
Where is fdd.k-melloddy.com hosted?
fdd.k-melloddy.com resolves to an IP operated by AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region in KR (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.
How often is the fdd.k-melloddy.com report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on October 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 fdd.k-melloddy.com has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.

08 · Final Verdict

Final verdict

The saved conclusion, decisive evidence, and practical action in one final view.
Verdict score
85/100
Safe

Government-backed research subdomain returns 403; no commercial or malicious activity detected.

Saved capturefdd.k-melloddy.comCapture-safe
The site blocked our capture or showed an error page. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

fdd.k-melloddy.com is a technical subdomain of the K-MELLODDY project, a South Korean government-supported AI drug-discovery initiative. The page currently returns a 403 Forbidden response, so its own content could not be reviewed. Clean technical checks and independent research confirming the project's legitimacy support a Safe rating.

Recommended actionThe subdomain is inaccessible and shows no commercial or malicious behavior. Visitors should treat it as a restricted research resource; no action is required unless you have an explicit project affiliation.
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Missing checks are never treated as a clean result.

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09 · Community

Community

First-hand experiences add human context after the scanner has reached its conclusion.