Is oa-fund.ub.uni-muenchen.de safe?
http://oa-fund.ub.uni-muenchen.de/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 4 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (57 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Official institutional service of LMU Munich University Library for Open Access publication funding.
The site is the LMU Open Access Fund portal, a legitimate service of the University Library of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München that lets LMU members apply for grants covering article processing charges for Gold Open Access publications. The site is hosted on the university subdomain oa-fund.ub.uni-muenchen.de, uses the university's own contact email, and is powered by the EPrints repository software.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 95/100
Safe covers scores 85–100. No adverse finding was saved; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
No adverse finding was saved with this report.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsHosted on official university subdomain oa-fund.ub.uni-muenchen.de
- SupportsUses university email domain and lists phone contact
- SupportsNo detections from Safe Browsing, TLS, or the multi-engine malware scan
Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
The site is the LMU Open Access Fund portal, a legitimate service of the University Library of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München that lets LMU members apply for grants covering article processing charges for Gold Open Access publications. The site is hosted on the university subdomain oa-fund.ub.uni-muenchen.de, uses the university's own contact email, and is powered by the EPrints repository software.
Institutional identity and contact details
The site displays the official LMU branding and provides contact details on its own domain: open-access@ub.uni-muenchen.de and a listed phone number.
The service is explicitly described as financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and open to all LMU members who are corresponding authors of Gold Open Access publications during the 2025–2027 funding period.
Technical checks and operational context
The browser threat feed, TLS validation, and the multi-engine malware scan all returned clean results with no malicious detections.
The platform runs on EPrints 3 software developed by the University of Southampton and links to the university's main site (lmu.de) and library site (ub.lmu.de) for imprint and privacy information.
How the application process works
LMU members register once on the platform, receive a confirmation email, and can then log in to submit a funding application for article processing charges.
The only commercial CTA is the internal grant application process; no external affiliate links, payment gateways, or third-party monetization are present.
Why the score is 95
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
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 57 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 36 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 - 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
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- 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
How security vendors categorise this site
- BitDefendereducation
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekereducational institutions
- Sophoseducational institutions
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
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
LMU OPEN ACCESS FONDS 2025 - 2027
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
LMU OPEN ACCESS FONDS 2025 - 2027
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
LMU Open Access Fund
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Contact page/contact.htmlRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
LMU Open Access Fund
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 57 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Saas
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01Hosted on official university subdomain oa-fund.ub.uni-muenchen.de
- 02No detections from Safe Browsing, TLS, or the multi-engine malware scan
Web research findings
Independent findings for oa-fund.ub.uni-muenchen.de, 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.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for oa-fund.ub.uni-muenchen.de. 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.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
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.
- Domainoa-fund.ub.uni-muenchen.de
- Redirects tooa-fund.ub.uni-muenchen.de
- Hosted byLeibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ)
- Referenceslmu.de · ub.lmu.de
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (open-access@ub.uni-muenchen.de).
- Phone number listed (10.12345678).
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for oa-fund.ub.uni-muenchen.de.
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
- 1301http://oa-fund.ub.uni-muenchen.de/
- 2200https://oa-fund.ub.uni-muenchen.de/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, 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.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Oct 15, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 15, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 15, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 15, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 15, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 15, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 15, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 15, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 15, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 15, 2026
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.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Official institutional service of LMU Munich University Library for Open Access publication funding.
The site is the LMU Open Access Fund portal, a legitimate service of the University Library of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München that lets LMU members apply for grants covering article processing charges for Gold Open Access publications. The site is hosted on the university subdomain oa-fund.ub.uni-muenchen.de, uses the university's own contact email, and is powered by the EPrints repository software.
09 · Community
Community
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