No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is it.ucsf.edu legit or a scam?
This looks safe to use.
Official UCSF IT subdomain serving university staff, faculty, and students with IT services and security resources.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
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.
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 domain it.ucsf.edu is a legitimate subdomain of ucsf.edu, the main website for the University of California, San Francisco. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP shows minimal abuse history. The evidence package confirms UCSF is a registered, active public university in the United States and that this subdomain is used for official IT support and phishing education. The page content matches the expected institutional layout with service status updates, contact numbers, and links to other ucsf.edu subdomains. No login forms, countdown timers, or credential-harvesting elements were detected. The combination of clean technical signals, institutional ownership, and zero scam mentions supports a safe classification.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for it.ucsf.edu, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- it.ucsf.edu is the official information technology portal for the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
- The domain is part of the legitimate .edu namespace and is operated by a well-established academic and medical institution.
- The site provides resources for students, faculty, and staff, including IT support, security training, and access to university systems.
- UCSF IT actively uses this domain to educate users on how to identify and report phishing scams and other cybersecurity threats.
- Security scans indicate no malicious activity, malware, or phishing associations with this domain.
UCSF (University of California, San Francisco) is a public land-grant research university and medical institution.
Our research found that it.ucsf.edu is the official information technology portal for the University of California, San Francisco. The domain operates within the legitimate .edu namespace and is used to deliver IT support, security announcements, and resources for students, faculty, and staff. UCSF actively uses the site to educate users on identifying phishing and other threats. No scam reports, complaints, or malicious associations were identified in any searched sources.
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 · referencedThe 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.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed ((415) 514-4100).
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://it.ucsf.edu/
- 2200https://it.ucsf.edu/
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 it.ucsf.edu and not a lookalike like i-t.ucsf.edu.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 official IT portal for the University of California, San Francisco. The domain belongs to a long-established public research university with active business registration and no scam reports. 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 it.ucsf.edu, 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.
- it.ucsf.edu passed our automated checks with a trust score of 90/100. 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 it.ucsf.edu), 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 it.ucsf.edu 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 it.ucsf.edu 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 — it.ucsf.edu 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 — it.ucsf.edu presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Internet2 · InCommon RSA Server CA 2, valid for another 16 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".
- it.ucsf.edu resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (Content Delivery Network). 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 17, 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 it.ucsf.edu 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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