Verdict
tojsat.net shows high-risk / scam indicators.
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
| What this site appears to be | TOJSAT is an online, open-access peer-reviewed journal providing information for authors, editorial board details, ethics and submission guidelines, and archives of past issues. |
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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 | 12 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 16 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2010Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2010.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
The website is TOJSAT, an open-access academic journal presenting editorial-board information, submission guidelines, publication-ethics rules, author materials, and an archive of past issues. Its apparent business model is scholarly publishing, with potential reliance on publication fees, association support, or institutional backing rather than direct consumer commerce.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site's visible content is consistent with an academic publication and does not present a login form, financial solicitation, cryptocurrency function, or obvious brand-impersonation mechanism. However, this benign page presentation is outweighed by confirmed external threat signals: the domain is blacklisted, and security screening recorded multiple malicious detections, including Tier-1 vendor detections. Runtime inspection also identified suspicious inline scripts and non-whitelisted external posting activity. These signals create a material risk that the site, its scripts, or associated infrastructure could expose visitors to harmful content or unsafe interaction, even though the journal pages themselves contain no obvious phishing indicators. The published address `TOJSAT` does not independently establish the real-world operator, which remains unverified.
- Homepage: identifies “The Online Journal of Science and Technology,” displays ISSN 2146-7390, and describes the publication as quarterly, open access, peer reviewed, and international.
- Site behavior: 4 suspicious inline scripts, 2 non-whitelisted external posts, and a 78% synthetic-response ratio were recorded during two successful runs.
- External reputation screening: 12 malicious and 1 suspicious detections were recorded, with the domain also present on confirmed blacklists.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The About, Editorial Board, Ethics Rules, Submission Guidelines, and Contact pages provide a coherent publication structure. The site states that TOJSAT is part of the TASET association and identifies editorial and advisory roles, but the available evidence does not independently verify that relationship or connect the website to a confirmed legal entity. No licensing or registration number is disclosed; for an academic journal this is primarily a transparency and institutional-verification gap rather than, by itself, evidence of a scam. The private registration record is an administrative limitation, not an identity contradiction. The independent risk signals nevertheless make the site's institutional claims unsuitable for acceptance without external confirmation.
- Identity and legal-content pages: state that TOJSAT is part of “TASET (The association of Science, Education and Technology)” and provide editorial, advisory, ethics, and copyright materials.
- Domain registration: registered 2010-07-07T13:57:29Z through GoDaddy.com, LLC; age_years 16.13; expiration 2027-07-07T13:57:29Z.
- Hosting infrastructure: served from AS21499, GODADDY-SXB - Host Europe GmbH, DE.
- Transport security: TLS certificate issued by YR1 at DV validation level, valid to 2026-09-30T19:36:53+00:00.
What to Verify Next
An institution considering submissions, affiliation, or payment should independently confirm the TASET relationship and editorial-board identities through contact details obtained from separate institutional or professional sources. The journal's ISSN and publication history should be checked against the official ISSN system and recognized library or indexing records. Any publication fee, payment recipient, manuscript-upload process, or request for personal information should be validated through an independently sourced contact route before use. Until those checks are complete, activity should be limited to passive review of publicly available material.
- About and Editorial Board pages: provide the stated association relationship and named governance structure requiring independent confirmation.
- Submission Guidelines and Copyright Form pages: define the manuscript and author-document workflow requiring validation before submission.
- Contact page: provides the site-designated communication route that should be cross-checked against an independent institutional source.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk. Although the website presents a plausible academic-journal structure, confirmed external threat detections and blacklist status materially undermine confidence in its safety and operational legitimacy, while the real-world operator remains unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to 92.205.172.18 in Germany and is hosted by Host Europe GmbH through AS21499, with no CDN or edge-IP layer detected. A valid DV certificate provides transport encryption, but this protective control does not neutralize the confirmed reputation risk associated with the site.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users should avoid credentials, payments, manuscript uploads, or other sensitive exchanges until the external warnings and the site's institutional affiliations have been independently resolved.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
2 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by registration and ownership, analysis engine, behaviour in a sandbox, external reputation.
01 Governance Risk
- The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN - Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - The page carried inline scripts written in a style TrustSniffer treats as suspicious.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_SUSPICIOUS_INLINE_SCRIPTS - The page sent data to a destination TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_POSTS - A large share of what the page loaded came from other domains.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_MODERATE - An external threat feed lists this domain: either Google Safe Browsing marked it malicious, or a significant number of malware engines flagged it.External reputation
rule:EXT_BLACKLIST_CRITICAL
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 25% |
- 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 tojsat.net.
- The request stayed on tojsat.net. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by domaincontrol.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-07-07. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2010-12-31. Clear
- It is hosted on GODADDY-SXB, from a server in DE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | GODADDY-SXB - Host Europe GmbH, DE |
| Country | DE |
| Server IP | 92.205.172.18 |
| Name servers | NS59.DOMAINCONTROL.COM, NS60.DOMAINCONTROL.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-30 |
| Domain age | 16.13 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-07-07 |
| Archive first seen | 2010-12-31 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 12 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about tojsat.net 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.