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How we checked

Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities

  • Antivirus (64 of 95 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
  • Google Safe Browsing: completed
  • page reading: completed
  • page capture: completed
  • domain records: completed
  • web research: completed
Verdict

Academic journal portal with no detected threats

journals.pagepress.net hosts open-access, peer-reviewed academic journals published by PAGEPress Publications using the standard Open Journal Systems platform. The site shows no technical threats and no commercial mechanisms that would expose visitors to financial or data-harvesting risks.

The site can be used for accessing academic journal content; visitors should still verify any article-processing-charge policies directly with the publisher before submitting manuscripts.

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journals.pagepress.net: Low Risk — MalwareTips website safety report

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.

Score explained

Why 82/100

Low Risk covers scores 70–84. 1 finding pulled the score down; 3 pushed it up.

What pulled the score down

  1. MinorNo direct contact email found on captured page

What pushed the score up

  • SupportsNo threat warning from the browser threat feed
  • SupportsValid TLS certificate present
  • SupportsDomain is 1051 days old

No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.

01 · Investigation Brief

Investigation Brief

journals.pagepress.net hosts open-access, peer-reviewed academic journals published by PAGEPress Publications using the standard Open Journal Systems platform. The site shows no technical threats and no commercial mechanisms that would expose visitors to financial or data-harvesting risks.

Technical checks

The site presents a valid TLS certificate and the browser threat feed reports no threat warnings.

The registrable domain is 1051 days old, providing moderate age-based legitimacy.

Site function and content

The captured page identifies the site as the home of Ageing Research, an international, online-only, open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by PAGEPress Publications.

Links on the page point to archived issues hosted on pagepress.org, confirming the site operates as a journal portal rather than a commercial storefront.

Contact and operator details

No direct contact email address appears on the captured landing page, which limits immediate verification of operator responsiveness.

Why the score is 82

The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier. 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/ 95

No detections

Saved analysis from April 3, 2026 - stale

No detections across 64 engines that rated this URL

No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 31 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.

Malicious
0
Suspicious
0
Total
95
All 95 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
  • benkow.cc - Clean
  • Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
  • BitDefender - Clean
  • Bkav - Unrated
  • BlockList - Clean
  • Blueliv - Clean
  • Certego - Clean
  • ChainPatrol - Unrated
  • Chong Lua Dao - Clean
  • CINS Army - Clean
  • Cluster25 - Unrated
  • CMC Threat Intelligence - Clean
  • CRDF - Clean
  • Criminal IP - Clean
  • CSIS Security Group - Unrated
  • Cyan - Unrated
  • Cyble - Clean
  • CyRadar - Clean
  • desenmascara.me - Clean
  • DNS8 - Clean
  • Dr.Web - Clean
  • EmergingThreats - Clean
  • Emsisoft - Clean
  • Ermes - Unrated
  • ESET - Clean
  • ESTsecurity - Clean
  • Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
  • 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
  • Kaspersky - Clean
  • LevelBlue - Clean
  • Lionic - Clean
  • Lumu - Unrated
  • Malwared - Clean
  • MalwarePatrol - Clean
  • malwares.com URL checker - Clean
  • MalwareURL - Unrated
  • Mimecast - Unrated
  • Netcraft - Unrated
  • OpenPhish - Clean
  • 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
  • securolytics - Clean
  • Snort IP sample list - Unrated
  • SOCRadar - Unrated
  • Sophos - Clean
  • Spam404 - Clean
  • StopForumSpam - Clean
  • Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
  • ThreatHive - Clean
  • URLhaus - Clean
  • URLQuery - Unrated
  • Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
  • VIPRE - Unrated
  • ViriBack - Clean
  • VX Vault - Clean
  • Webroot - Clean
  • Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
  • Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
  • ZeroCERT - Clean
  • ZeroFox - Unrated

How security vendors categorise this site

  • Forcepoint ThreatSeekerinformation technology

Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.

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
journals.pagepress.net
What our review noticed on this page
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

Ageing Research is an international, online-only, Open Access, peer-reviewed journal

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    Ageing Research is an international, online-only, Open Access, peer-reviewed journal

What the page says about itself

What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.

Page title
PAGEPress Publications

Pages we read

  • Main page/Read

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

    PAGEPress Publications

  2. What we observed

    The page content was captured and checked alongside 64 antivirus results.

  3. What independent research found

    The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.

  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. 01Valid TLS certificate present
  2. 02No threat warning from the browser threat feed
  3. 03Domain is 1051 days old

Web research findings

Independent findings for journals.pagepress.net, 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
No scam reports found
The completed search returned no sourced scam reports or complaints.

No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for journals.pagepress.net. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.

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. Domainjournals.pagepress.net
  2. Redirects tojournals.pagepress.net
  3. Hosted byPoundhost Server
  4. Referencespagepress.org · hubblesite.org

Domain Timeline

  1. Nov 28, 2023
    Domain registered

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

  2. Oct 14, 2026
    Saved security review — Rated Low Risk

    This saved scan found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.

Contact Verification

Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbers2279-9761
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
One contact red flag
  • No direct contact email found on the captured page.
  • Phone number listed (2279-9761).

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age2 years old
RegistrarRegister SPA
RegisteredNov 28, 2023
ExpiresNov 28, 2026
Last updatedAug 21, 2026
RegistrantNot published (privacy or GDPR redaction)
Owner privacyUnknown (owner not published)
Nameserversns1.register.itns2.register.it
Verified ownerNo owner has verified this domain on MalwareTips
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YR1
IssuedSep 27, 2026 (17 days before this scan)
ExpiresDec 26, 2026 (72d)
Self-signedNo
Trusted chainYes: our check verified the issuer chain
Matches hostnameYes

Certificate issued for journals.pagepress.net.

Hosting & Technology
HostingPoundhost Server
Server IP94.76.240.177
Server locationUnited Kingdom (GB)
Web servernginx
Platform / CMSOpen Journal Systems 3.4.0.10
PopularityRadar ranks pagepress.net, not this subdomain
Technologies and payments

Payment providers the page loads

None seen among the outside domains we saved.

Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://journals.pagepress.net/
  • 2200https://journals.pagepress.net/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPPoundhost Server
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.

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

Coverage, provenance, and source freshness remain separate so a missing check is never mistaken for a clean result.
  1. Antiviruspartial
  2. Browser threat feedcomplete
  3. Page contentcomplete
  4. Analysiscomplete
  5. Visual evidencecomplete
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 direct contact email found on captured page

Source coverage and freshness

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

Antivirus
Result0 of 95 engines flagged
CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Apr 3, 2026
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 14, 2026
Page content
ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 14, 2026
Visual evidence
Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 14, 2026
Independent research
ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 14, 2026

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

Verify before sensitive actions

No material threat was found, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.

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

    Confirm you are actually on journals.pagepress.net and not a lookalike like j-ournals.pagepress.net or an IDN homoglyph.

  2. Verify the operator before paying or signing in

    Before a payment, login, or other sensitive step, confirm who runs the site through channels you find yourself, such as an official registry or the company's known social profiles.

  3. 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.

  4. 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 journals.pagepress.net a scam or is it safe?
journals.pagepress.net has a Safety Score of 82/100 (Low Risk). The saved checks found no material threat, but the report did not meet every requirement for the highest Safe tier. Use normal caution and independently verify the operator before irreversible payments or unusually sensitive actions.
Is journals.pagepress.net safe to use?
journals.pagepress.net has a Safety Score of 82/100 (Low Risk). Analysis coverage is strong at 83%. Normal caution; verify sensitive actions.
Has journals.pagepress.net been flagged by antivirus engines?
No — all 64 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network that rated it reported journals.pagepress.net as clean in the saved analysis from April 3, 2026. 31 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 journals.pagepress.net on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — journals.pagepress.net 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 journals.pagepress.net domain?
journals.pagepress.net is a subdomain of pagepress.net, which is 2 years old, registered on November 28, 2023 through Register SPA. That is the parent domain's registration age: it does not show how long journals.pagepress.net itself has existed or who runs it, so it is weighed alongside the other checks.
Does journals.pagepress.net have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — journals.pagepress.net presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR1, valid for another 72 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 journals.pagepress.net hosted?
journals.pagepress.net resolves to an IP operated by Poundhost Server in GB (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 journals.pagepress.net report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on October 14, 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 journals.pagepress.net 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
82/100
Low Risk

Academic journal portal with no detected threats

Saved capturejournals.pagepress.netCapture-safe
Captured during this scan. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

journals.pagepress.net hosts open-access, peer-reviewed academic journals published by PAGEPress Publications using the standard Open Journal Systems platform. The site shows no technical threats and no commercial mechanisms that would expose visitors to financial or data-harvesting risks.

Recommended actionThe site can be used for accessing academic journal content; visitors should still verify any article-processing-charge policies directly with the publisher before submitting manuscripts.
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09 · Community

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