Is usp.br legit or a scam?
Official domain of the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil's premier public research university with a clean security record and decades of history.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
The domain is the long-standing official home of the University of São Paulo, established well before 1995. Our analysis confirms it is registered to a verified public state entity in Brazil with a valid tax ID (CNPJ). The site holds a high global traffic rank and is secured with a valid organizational SSL certificate. No malicious activity or phishing patterns were detected by our antivirus network or browser blocklists. The presence of official government links and institutional subdomains further confirms its legitimacy.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for usp.br, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official domain of Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil's largest and most important public research university, founded in 1934 and maintained by the State of São Paulo.
- WHOIS: owner UNIVERSIDADE DE SAO PAULO, created before 1995-01-01, last changed 2025-04-04, status published, with DNSSEC enabled.
- Homepage at https://www5.usp.br/ explicitly states it is a "Universidade pública, autarquia ligada à Secretaria de Estado de Ensino Superior de São Paulo" with links to official services, webmail, transparency portals, and subdomains.
- CNPJ 63.025.530/0001-04 confirmed in official USP documents; listed as active public entity in government and Wikipedia sources.
- Reclame Aqui profile shows 21 complaints in recent 6-month period (mostly "other" or delivery delays), 100% response rate but low 22.2% resolution rate; university directs most issues to its internal complaint channels.
- Web searches for scam/fraude/phishing primarily return USP's own internal alerts about phishing emails targeting its users, not accusations against the usp.br domain itself.
- No scam reports, negative Trustpilot/ScamAdviser mentions, or evidence of malicious activity; domain is widely referenced as official by Wikipedia, LinkedIn, Instagram (@usp.oficial), and international partners.
Registered owner: UNIVERSIDADE DE SAO PAULO (public state autarquia). CNPJ 63.025.530/0001-04. Domain created before 1995, status: published.
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 contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (05508-220).
- Links to 7 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://usp.br/
- 2302https://usp.br/
- 3200https://www5.usp.br/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 usp.br and not a lookalike like u-sp.br.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
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
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 found no threat indicators on usp.br. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- usp.br passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 97/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. usp.br presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by GlobalSign nv-sa · GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018, expiring in 83 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report usp.br as clean.
- No. usp.br is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- usp.br resolves to an IP operated by UNIVERSIDADE DE SAO PAULO in BR (usage type: University/College/School). 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.
- Yes. usp.br sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 25, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around usp.br 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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