No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is mitre.org legit or a scam?
Official site of the MITRE Corporation, a 65-year-old U.S. nonprofit with clean security scans and no scam reports.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site belongs to MITRE, a well-known American nonprofit that runs federally funded research centers and maintains resources like the CVE database. Our antivirus network and browser blocklists returned completely clean results with zero detections. The domain is over 40 years old, uses valid SSL, and shows no abuse reports on its hosting IP. Evidence confirms it is the legitimate organization with active nonprofit status since 1960 and no clone indicators. These factors together give high confidence the site is legitimate and safe.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for mitre.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- MITRE is an American not-for-profit organization with dual headquarters in Bedford, Massachusetts, and McLean, Virginia.
- As a not-for-profit organization, MITRE acts in the public interest by delivering objective, cost-effective solutions to many of the world's biggest challenges.
- MITRE operates FFRDCs—federally funded research and development centers—and provides technical expertise, stability, and continuity to government agency sponsors.
- The Mitre Corporation is tax-exempt since July 1960 with EIN 04-2239742 listed on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.
- MITRE maintains resources including CVE (cve.org) and ATT&CK framework (attack.mitre.org).
- Official website mitre.org confirms 65+ years of operation as a not-for-profit.
Tax-exempt since July 1960, EIN 04-2239742, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://mitre.org/
- 2403https://www.mitre.org/cross-domain
Server Reputation
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 mitre.org and not a lookalike like m-itre.org.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.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on mitre.org. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- mitre.org passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 93/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. mitre.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Sectigo Limited · Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA OV R36, expiring in 250 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- mitre.org is 40.9 years old, registered on 7/10/1985 through Network Solutions, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report mitre.org as clean.
- No. mitre.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- mitre.org resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Technologies Inc. in US (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.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
User reviews & comments(0)
Share your experience — "Lost $200 on a fake checkout" is more useful than "Scam". Your review helps others avoid traps.