Verdict
azcompassprep.com 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 | Official AZ Compass Prep School homepage with navigation for admissions, academics, arts, athletics, news and events, calendars, contact details and enrollment links. Provides address and phone contact information and links to social media. |
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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 | 2 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 2011Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE2 | 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 2011.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This website presents itself as the official AZ Compass Prep School homepage, offering information about K–12 admissions and enrollment, academics, arts, athletics, calendars, events, parent involvement, contact channels, and school-related support or merchandise functions.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content is consistent with an education institution and contains no detected brand-impersonation or phishing indicators, but this benign presentation is outweighed by confirmed external threat signals. The domain is blacklisted by multiple sources, including VirusTotal and an external blacklist, with two malicious detections and a Fortinet threat flag. Behavioral testing also observed two hidden forms in both successful runs and substantial DOM changes after interaction; although no password-external form or wallet-drainer activity was observed, these behaviors materially increase the risk associated with login, credential, payment, or other sensitive interactions. No identity contradiction or confirmed impersonation was established, but the blacklist findings are sufficient to require a security-forward posture.
- Homepage content: presents admissions, academics, school events, contact information, and social links, with no page-level red flags or detected login form.
- External reputation evidence: two malicious detections were recorded; Fortinet was the identified flagged vendor, and blacklist status was confirmed by VirusTotal and an external blacklist.
- Behavioral artifact: two hidden forms were detected across two successful runs, with a maximum post-interaction DOM difference of 2,083.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The About Us, Teachers & Leadership, Board of Directors, Admissions, and Contact Us material provides a coherent school-oriented identity and operational structure, while independent identity verification remains incomplete. The reviewed material does not state a licensing authority or registration number; for this stated school model, that is a regulatory-transparency item requiring confirmation rather than standalone evidence of fraud. The available third-party broker dataset contained no matching entity, which provides limited context only and is not a licensing determination. The domain is long-established and registered through GoDaddy.com, LLC, while the registration record uses a private registrant service as an administrative privacy arrangement.
- Registration record: created 2010-07-21T22:30:28Z; age 16.09 years; registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC; expiration 2028-07-21T22:30:28Z.
- Transport security: TLS certificate uses DV validation, was issued by YE2, and is valid to 2026-10-04T22:46:54+00:00.
- Identity pages: the site includes About Us, board, admissions, and contact sections but no stated license authority or license number in the reviewed content.
What to Verify Next
The school’s legal existence and authority to operate should be confirmed through the relevant state education or charter-school registry using independently obtained contact details. Any enrollment, donation, merchandise, or account workflow should be reached through an independently verified institutional channel, and payment protections should be confirmed before funds or credentials are submitted. The official social accounts and published telephone or address information should be cross-checked through an offline or independently sourced route rather than relying solely on links from the site.
- Admissions pages: provide enrollment and international-admissions pathways that warrant confirmation against the relevant education authority.
- Contact page: publishes institutional contact details suitable for independent cross-checking.
- Homepage behavior: contains one visible search form, while sandbox testing separately detected hidden forms; sensitive workflows should therefore be validated before use.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk because confirmed blacklist and malicious-detection evidence conflicts with the site’s otherwise credible school presentation. The site may represent a real educational identity, but that connection is not independently proven and the available evidence does not support sensitive interaction.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, and all observed addressing was limited to a Cloudflare edge rather than a directly exposed origin. This reduces direct origin exposure but is only a mitigating technical control and cannot offset the external reputation findings.
- Hosting infrastructure: served from AS13335, CLOUDFLARENET – Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- Observed edge address: 104.17.166.123; one unique IP and one CDN edge IP were identified, with zero origin candidates.
- TLS: DV certificate issuer YE2, valid through 2026-10-04T22:46:54+00:00.
Closing Assessment
Until the blacklist findings are resolved and the institutional identity is independently confirmed, use should be limited to non-sensitive viewing; credentials, account login, payments, donations, and other financial actions should not be undertaken through the site.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 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 rewrote itself after it was interacted with, so what a visitor first sees is not what they end up on.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_DOM_DIFF_AFTER_INTERACTION - The structure of the page changed sharply while it was loading.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_DOM_DENSITY_SPIKE - The page contained a form a visitor cannot see.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_HIDDEN_FORMS - 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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 39% |
- Trusted social count=3
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 azcompassprep.com.
- The request stayed on azcompassprep.com. 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 2028-07-21. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2011-02-01. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700::6811:a47b |
| Name servers | NS37.DOMAINCONTROL.COM, NS38.DOMAINCONTROL.COM |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-04 |
| Domain age | 16.09 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-07-21 |
| Archive first seen | 2011-02-01 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about azcompassprep.com 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.