Verdict
acaped.com.br 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 | Portuguese-language website for ACAPED offering a catalog of over 100 courses (EAD, group, individual), contact details, address in Araranguá - SC, phone and email, and certificate validation information. |
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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 | 18 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2008Public 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 2008.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Kaspersky, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
ACAPED is a Portuguese-language education and training website presenting more than 100 distance-learning, group, and individual courses, together with enrollment, account access, certificate-validation, FAQ, and contact functions; its apparent business model is course enrollment and certification services for visitors in Brazil.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content does not show an obvious brand-impersonation pattern, conflicting legal identities, or phishing indicators, and it presents a coherent education-course model. However, this benign page presentation is outweighed by confirmed external threat detections: the domain is recorded on blacklist sources, with 12 malicious and one suspicious detection, including tier-one detections associated with Kaspersky and Sophos. These findings create a material risk for sensitive interaction despite the absence of obvious fraud mechanics in the captured pages. The real-world operator also remains unverified, so the on-site ACAPED identity should not be treated as independently established.
- The homepage and course catalogue present ACAPED as an education provider with more than 100 course options, including EAD, group, and individual formats.
- External reputation assessment recorded 12 malicious detections, one suspicious detection, and blacklist status; Kaspersky and Sophos were among the flagged vendors.
- Domain registration records show registration on 2008-03-20, with an age of 18.43 years.
- Historical records show 97 archive snapshots spanning 2008–2026, covering 19 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The “A agência,” contact, FAQ, enrollment, and certificate-validation sections provide a business description and Brazilian contact details, including an address in Araranguá, Santa Catarina, and a telephone number. The available pages do not state a licensing authority or registration number, leaving regulatory status and the legal basis for certificate issuance unclear; this is a verification gap rather than, on its own, proof of fraud. The site’s transport security and long-running registration support technical continuity, but neither establishes the operator’s legal identity or regulatory standing.
- The contact and institutional pages identify ACAPED, an address in Araranguá–SC, a telephone contact, and a postal box.
- The certificate-validation page confirms that certificate checking is presented as a site function, but no licensing authority or license number is disclosed in the supplied content.
- The site is hosted on AS28642, Contato Internet Ltda, Brazil.
- The TLS certificate is issued by YR1, uses DV validation, and is valid through 2026-11-15.
What to Verify Next
Before any login, enrollment, payment, or submission of personal information, an institution should independently confirm that the named education provider exists at the published address and that its telephone and contact channels are controlled by that entity. Any claimed authorization to issue certificates should be checked with the relevant Brazilian education or professional authority, and payment should be limited to a method offering meaningful dispute and chargeback protection. The certificate-validation process should also be tested only with non-sensitive information until the operator and service terms are independently confirmed.
- The institutional page describes the agency but does not independently establish its legal entity.
- The enrollment and account areas indicate that course registration and login are available.
- The certificate-validation page provides a business function whose issuing authority and regulatory basis require confirmation.
- The contact page supplies the channels and location that should be validated through an independent route.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk because confirmed blacklist and malicious-detection signals override the otherwise ordinary appearance of the education content and the site’s technical continuity. The website may represent a genuine course catalogue, but its legitimacy and operator identity are not sufficiently established for sensitive interaction.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single likely origin address in Brazil and is served by Contato Internet Ltda through AS28642, with no CDN or WAF detected. The valid DV certificate provides transport encryption, but the infrastructure offers no meaningful mitigation against the external reputation findings.
- Hosting infrastructure: AS28642, Contato Internet Ltda, Brazil; one resolved IP and zero CDN edge IPs.
- TLS certificate: issuer YR1, DV validation, valid to 2026-11-15T23:06:19+00:00.
- The resolved infrastructure is recorded in the LACNIC registry and has one likely origin IP.
Closing Assessment
Sensitive actions should be withheld pending independent confirmation of the operator, regulatory position, and payment protections; read-only review is the proportionate interim posture.
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, external reputation.
01 Governance Risk
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - 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 | 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 acaped.com.br.
- The request stayed on acaped.com.br. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by dns.br, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-03-20. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2008-09-21. Clear
- It is hosted on AS28642, from a server in BR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AS28642 - Contato Internet Ltda, BR |
| Country | BR |
| Server IP | 201.76.0.45 |
| Name servers | d.sec.dns.br, e.sec.dns.br |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-15 |
| Domain age | 18.43 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-03-20 |
| Archive first seen | 2008-09-21 |
| 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 acaped.com.br 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.