Verdict
snu.ac.kr 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 university website content focused on academics, admissions, research, news, events, and campus visitor information for Seoul National University. |
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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 | 29 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20041 snapshot | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2004.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This is the official-looking institutional portal for Seoul National University, presenting information on education, admissions, research, campus services, news, events, administration, and visitor access rather than a sales-driven or investment-based business model.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage and institutional navigation consistently present Seoul National University content across academic programs, admissions, research, student services, administrative information, and campus resources, with no phishing form, financial solicitation, cryptocurrency activity, or suspected brand-impersonation pattern identified. External reputation checks were clean, and the site has an established global traffic footprint. The available evidence is therefore consistent with an established, apparently legitimate institutional website, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
- Homepage: Seoul National University branding and extensive navigation covering education, admissions, research, student life, administration, news, and campus access.
- Homepage behavior: no login form, hidden form, sensitive form, wallet connection, clipboard manipulation, or external password-submission destination detected.
- External reputation: 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, no phishing or blacklist hit, and traffic rank 13900.
- Domain and archive record: registered 1997-06-25 and aged 29.15 years; 1 archive snapshot spanning 2004–2004, with 1 year tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The reviewed content describes a public university information portal and does not present a financial, brokerage, investment, or other regulated commercial service requiring a sector licence. No licence claim or licence number is evidenced, which is appropriate to the stated informational purpose but would require separate confirmation if the site were used for an activity outside that scope. The pages identify the institution as Seoul National University, while independent verification of the real-world operator remains incomplete. Registration through Megazone (HOSTING.KR), university-attributed hosting, and an organisation-validated certificate provide supporting infrastructure evidence rather than independent proof of operator identity.
- Hosting: served from AS9488, SNU-AS-KR-KR — Seoul National University, KR.
- Registration: registrar Megazone (HOSTING.KR); recorded owner Seoul National University; expiry 2028-04-12.
- Transport security: GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018, OV validation, valid to 2026-12-31.
- Institutional pages: the site provides admissions, research, administrative, financial-information, organisational, campus, and contact-related sections.
What to Verify Next
For credential or payment interactions, ordinary independent checks should confirm that the specific service being accessed is part of Seoul National University’s expected institutional operations. Any request for payment, document submission, or account credentials should be matched against contact details and instructions obtained through an independently sourced university channel rather than relying solely on an unfamiliar message or redirected page.
- Homepage: provides links to admissions, academic administration, registration-related services, campus facilities, and institutional announcements.
- Campus-information pages: provide visitor, transportation, campus-map, and contact-oriented resources suitable for cross-checking the purpose of a requested interaction.
- Institutional navigation: includes organisational, rules, financial-information, and administrative-service sections that can be used to validate an unexpected request.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website. The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with no observed scam, phishing, impersonation, or identity-conflict indicators. The classification supports normal informational use, while the operator’s real-world identity remains not independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site’s hosting attribution is consistent with a university-operated environment. No trusted CDN or WAF layer is established in the supplied infrastructure record; this is a neutral infrastructure observation and does not, by itself, indicate malicious activity.
Closing Assessment
Normal informational use is proportionate; before submitting credentials or making any payment, independent confirmation of the specific request and applicable payment protections should be completed.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-13 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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 73/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 74% |
- Identity verified on page
- Trusted social count=1
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 snu.ac.kr.
- The request stayed on snu.ac.kr. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Megazone(http://HOSTING.KR). Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ac.kr, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-04-12. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2004-06-26. Clear
- It is hosted on SNU-AS-KR-KR, from a server in KR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Megazone(http://HOSTING.KR) |
|---|---|
| Hosting | SNU-AS-KR-KR - Seoul National University, KR |
| Country | KR |
| Server IP | 147.46.10.129 |
| Name servers | ercc.snu.ac.kr, hektor.snu.ac.kr |
| SSL issuer | GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-31 |
| Domain age | 29.15 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-04-12 |
| Archive first seen | 2004-06-26 |
| Archive snapshots | 1 |
| 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 snu.ac.kr 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.