Verdict
bangabandhuonline.org 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 | A Bengali/English digital archive site presenting articles, speeches and historical material about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and related Bangladesh history topics. Appears to be an informational resource rather than a commercial or financial service. |
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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 | 4 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 1.1 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2019Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: 1 to 3 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2019.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Kaspersky flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This website is a Bengali/English digital archive presenting articles, speeches, biographies, and historical material concerning Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh’s history, and the 1971 Liberation War. Its apparent purpose is non-commercial information preservation and public reference rather than financial or transactional activity.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content does not present a login form, payment workflow, wallet connection, or overt phishing mechanism, and no conflicting legal-entity names or page-level brand-impersonation indicators were identified. However, this benign presentation is outweighed by confirmed external threat detections: four evaluated scanners classified the domain as malicious, two additional detections were suspicious, Kaspersky was among the flagged vendors, and the domain is listed by external blacklist sources. This is a material contradiction to the site’s informational appearance and supports a high-risk posture for credentials, financial activity, downloads, or other sensitive interaction.
- The homepage is categorized as an archive/informational page and contains no login form, hidden sensitive form, wallet-connect activity, or external password form.
- External reputation testing recorded 4 malicious and 2 suspicious detections from 11 effective detections; Kaspersky was a flagged vendor.
- The domain was identified as blacklisted by both the VT source and an external blacklist source.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The reviewed material does not state a licensing authority or registration number, and the site’s legal and governance disclosure status is unclear. The operator’s real-world identity is not independently verified, so the historical and cultural subject matter should not be treated as proof of official affiliation. The absence of a broker-dataset match provides contextual information only and is not a licensing determination.
- Domain registration: registered 2025-08-02; age 1.05 years; registrar Dynadot2 LLC; expiry 2027-08-02.
- Archive records show 35 snapshots from 2019-05-25 through 2025-02-23, covering 7 tracked years.
- Hosted on AS13335, CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- TLS certificate issued by WE1 at DV validation level, valid to 2026-10-01T16:49:37+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, an institution should independently establish the operator’s legal identity through an official or offline source, confirm that the domain is the intended publication channel, and obtain an independent malware and content-safety review for the specific page or file involved. Any request for credentials, payment, downloads, or privileged access should remain suspended until those checks produce consistent results. If the site is being considered for institutional use, its historical materials should also be corroborated against authoritative archival or governmental sources.
- The site’s identity-verification status is unverified.
- The available disclosure state is unclear.
- The site presents no visible commercial licensing claim or licensing number in the analyzed content.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical risk, with a specific concern for sensitive interaction. Although the website presents a coherent informational purpose and its page behavior shows no overt transaction or credential-harvesting workflow, the confirmed external threat detections and blacklist status prevent the site from being treated as trustworthy for sensitive use. Its apparent legitimacy as a cultural archive remains unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection is present and is a mitigating control against direct exposure of the hosting environment, but it does not establish the legitimacy of the site or offset the external threat findings. All four observed addresses were CDN edge addresses, with no origin candidate identified.
- Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection was observed across 4 edge addresses.
- The observed edge addresses were 104.21.51.2, 172.67.215.122, 2606:4700:3030::ac43:d77a, and 2606:4700:3032::6815:3302.
Closing Assessment
Pending independent identity and safety validation, activity should be limited to passive, read-only review; credentials, downloads, financial actions, and other sensitive interactions should not be permitted.
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 bangabandhuonline.org.
- The request stayed on bangabandhuonline.org. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Dynadot2 LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-08-02. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2019-05-25. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Dynadot2 LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3032::6815:3302 |
| Name servers | sevki.ns.cloudflare.com, uma.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-01 |
| Domain age | 1.05 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-08-02 |
| Archive first seen | 2019-05-25 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 4 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about bangabandhuonline.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.