Is journal.universitasbumigora.ac.id legit or a scam?
Academic journal portal showing phishing/malware flags from multiple antivirus engines despite appearing to be a real university publication system.
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
6 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.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
The domain hosts an Open Journal System (OJS) — a standard open-source platform for academic publishing — and the page content matches what a legitimate university journal portal should contain. The site is hosted on a clean IP with no abuse history, uses valid SSL encryption, and has existed for over 14 years. However, six antivirus engines (ADMINUSLabs, alphaMountain.ai, Chong Lua Dao, CyRadar, Fortinet, and Gridinsoft) flag the domain as malicious or phishing, which is a significant red flag. This discrepancy suggests either a false-positive cluster (possible if the OJS software itself has been flagged in the past), a compromised installation, or a phishing site impersonating the university. The absence of contact information using the university's own domain and lack of a postal address are minor concerns for an academic portal but not definitive. The conflicting signals — legitimate-looking content and infrastructure versus multiple security-engine detections — create genuine uncertainty.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for journal.universitasbumigora.ac.id, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
No scam reports or complaints found in available sources.
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.
- Phone number listed (2581-2017).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://journal.universitasbumigora.ac.id/
- 2200https://journal.universitasbumigora.ac.id/
Server Reputation
Avoid this site
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Do not interact with journal.universitasbumigora.ac.id
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Verify the business through independent channels
Check the company's social profiles, registry records, and search for recent news or reviews that are not hosted on the site itself.
- Never use irreversible payment methods
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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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 journal.universitasbumigora.ac.id as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — journal.universitasbumigora.ac.id scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. journal.universitasbumigora.ac.id presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 61 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- journal.universitasbumigora.ac.id is 14.6 years old, registered on 11/25/2011. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 7 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged journal.universitasbumigora.ac.id as malicious or suspicious (6 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. journal.universitasbumigora.ac.id is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- journal.universitasbumigora.ac.id resolves to an IP operated by Hostinger International Limited in ID (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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 12, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around journal.universitasbumigora.ac.id 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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