Verdict
kscre.org appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Official site of the Korean Society of Christian Religious Education providing society information, conference schedules, journal submission guidelines, membership services, and contact details. Contains login/registration and online submission functionality for members and authors. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 20 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2007Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2007.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is the online presence of the Korean Society of Christian Religious Education, presenting information about the society, its officers and activities, academic conferences, journal publication, research ethics, membership services, notices, and contact channels. Its apparent business model is that of a non-profit academic association supported by membership services, conference participation, publication-related fees, and donations, with login, registration, and online manuscript-submission functions for members and authors.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed: the available evidence shows no phishing, impersonation, blacklist, or malicious-reputation finding. The site’s login and registration functions are consistent with its stated membership model, and the submission workflow is consistent with an academic journal rather than a deceptive payment or credential-harvesting operation. Behavioral testing did identify two suspicious inline scripts and 13 console errors, but it also found no external network activity, hidden forms, external password destinations, wallet activity, clipboard manipulation, or cloaking; these are implementation-quality anomalies rather than evidence of impersonation. The operator’s real-world identity remains independently unverified, so the legitimacy assessment is evidence-consistent rather than identity-proven.
- The homepage presents society information, conference schedules, journal guidance, membership services, notices, and contact details, with no page-level red flags recorded.
- The membership and submission interface contains login, registration, and online-submission functions without a sensitive-form or untrusted-destination finding.
- Behavioral observation recorded two suspicious inline scripts and 13 console errors, alongside zero external XHR requests, zero external posts, zero hidden forms, and zero wallet-related runs.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The about/history, officers, bylaws, conference, journal, and research-ethics pages provide a coherent organizational and academic structure. No regulated financial license is claimed in the supplied site content; for an academic association, this is a disclosure point to clarify where fees, donations, or membership payments are involved, not evidence of a scam. The available evidence does not independently connect the site to a verified legal entity, and the broker-oriented external context produced no match; that contextual result is not a legal or licensing determination.
- The domain registration record shows creation on 2006-06-17, an age of 20.19 years, expiry on 2027-06-17, and registration through Gabia, Inc.
- The site is served from AS10172, identified as KBBOOK-AS-KR - KYOBO BOOK CENTER, KR, with the observed server IP located in KR.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2027-01-05T23:59:59+00:00.
- Evaluated external reputation checks recorded zero malicious detections, zero suspicious detections, and no confirmed phishing or blacklist finding; reputation coverage was partial.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an institution should independently confirm that the society’s published organizational details and contact channels correspond to the intended academic association. For membership dues, conference fees, publication charges, or donations, the payment recipient, applicable refund terms, and payment-protection arrangements should be confirmed through the relevant official pages or an independently sourced institutional channel. Authors should also confirm submission deadlines, manuscript requirements, and editorial contact details before uploading material.
- The about/history and officers pages provide the primary organizational details for independent comparison.
- The membership-service pages describe registration and member functions that should be matched against the intended association’s independently sourced contact information.
- The journal-guideline, submission, and research-ethics pages define the publication workflow and should be reviewed before manuscript submission or payment of publication-related charges.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with the available evidence consistent with an established, apparently legitimate academic-organization website. No contradictory scam or impersonation indicators were identified, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The supplied infrastructure facts do not attribute a trusted CDN or WAF, and they do not establish a separate origin-protection layer. This limits the amount of protective infrastructure that can be credited, but it does not create a contradiction with the site’s otherwise established and clean technical profile.
Closing Assessment
Normal informational, membership, and academic-submission use is proportionate to the assessed posture; credential or payment interactions should proceed after ordinary independent checks of institutional identity, applicable terms, and payment protection.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of kscre.org.
- The request stayed on kscre.org. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Gabia, Inc.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by nskorea.com, across 3 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-06-17. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2007-11-24. Clear
- It is hosted on KBBOOK-AS-KR, from a server in KR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Gabia, Inc. |
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| Hosting | KBBOOK-AS-KR - KYOBO BOOK CENTER, KR |
| Country | KR |
| Server IP | 103.182.126.228 |
| Name servers | ns.nskorea.com, ns2.nskorea.com, ns3.nskorea.com |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-01-05 |
| Domain age | 20.19 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-06-17 |
| Archive first seen | 2007-11-24 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about kscre.org at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.