Verdict
bdstudyworld.com is moderately trusted.
Most signals looked ordinary, and some evidence was missing. Read the checks below before you pay or hand over personal details.
| What this site appears to be | Study World is an education consultancy focused on helping students apply to Chinese universities and obtain scholarships. The site offers free profile assessments, university & scholarship matching, application assistance, and visa guidance, and includes contact details and testimonials. |
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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% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 19 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 6.8 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2021Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2021.
- VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing had no flags for this domain; its hosting IP carries AbuseIPDB reports below the confidence level TrustSniffer treats as a flag.
Full analysis
Overview
Study World is an education consultancy focused on helping prospective students apply to Chinese universities and pursue scholarship opportunities, presenting study-abroad guidance, university information, application support, and related student services through a lead-generation and advisory model.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No phishing, impersonation, blacklist, or other identity-contradiction signals were observed. The site's content is coherent with an education consultancy and includes no investment, cryptocurrency, or other overtly fraudulent propositions. A reputational signal exists at the shared hosting layer, where abuse reports are attributed to common CDN infrastructure rather than specifically to this website; the signal is therefore materially discounted and does not establish malicious activity.
- The homepage presents “Study World | Study in China with Full Scholarship” and identifies the service category as education consultancy and study-abroad lead generation.
- The site's observed behavior showed no login form, hidden form, wallet connection, clipboard activity, cloaking, suspicious inline scripts, or drainer behavior.
- The shared infrastructure address 64.29.17.1 has 19 abuse reports, but is marked whitelisted with confidence score 0 and attributed to shared provider infrastructure.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available pages provide substantive service information, including Chinese university directories, CSC, provincial and university scholarships, application assistance, visa guidance, CSCA preparation, courses, and student testimonials. The site includes About Us, team, contact, and success-story areas, but the supplied content does not show a license, registration number, or independently verified legal-entity connection. This is a transparency and verification gap for a consultancy that may charge service fees or receive university-referral compensation, not evidence of a scam. Registration through HOSTINGER operations, UAB, a long-established domain, valid transport encryption, and clean page-level findings provide supporting infrastructure and content signals, while the available evidence remains insufficient to prove the real-world operator's identity.
- Domain registered on 2019-10-20 (~6.84 years old); registrar: HOSTINGER operations, UAB.
- Archive coverage recorded from 2021-11-27 through 2026-03-05, spanning 6 years tracked; archival coverage is sparse.
- Hosted on AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US).
- TLS certificate: issuer YR2, DV validation, valid to 2026-09-25.
What to Verify Next
Before any high-value payment or submission of sensitive personal documents, the consultancy's legal entity, fee schedule, refund terms, and relationship with any named university should be confirmed through official university or government channels. Any authorization applicable to education-consultancy or visa-support services should be checked with the relevant registry, and the site's contact channels should be independently confirmed before sending identity documents or paying service fees.
- The site offers one lead-capture/profile-assessment form, making the handling of applicant information a relevant verification point.
- The site contains dedicated About Us, Team Members, Contact, and Success Stories areas that can be used to compare organizational claims and service representations.
- The site lists university, scholarship, application-process, eligibility, and visa-support content that can be cross-checked against official institutional sources.
Summary Verdict
The website has a moderate-trust posture: its purpose and content are consistent with a conventional education consultancy, and no direct scam or impersonation contradiction was observed. The principal limitation is that the available evidence does not independently establish the operator's real-world identity, so legitimacy should be regarded as apparent and evidence-consistent rather than proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, with observed edge hosting associated with AS16509 and no origin candidate exposed in the analysis. This separation provides a useful mitigation against direct origin exposure, but CDN protection is an infrastructure control rather than proof of business legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary informational use is reasonable, while payments and submission of sensitive application materials should follow independent business, institutional, and data-handling checks first.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
1 finding contributed to this verdict, raised by registration and ownership.
01 Governance Risk
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 19 reports on hosting IP 64.29.17.1 (Vercel, Inc, Content Delivery Network), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
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 bdstudyworld.com.
- The request stayed on bdstudyworld.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under HOSTINGER operations, UAB. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-10-20. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-11-27. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | HOSTINGER operations, UAB |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 64.29.17.1 |
| Name servers | DINA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, TITAN.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-25 |
| Domain age | 6.84 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-10-20 |
| Archive first seen | 2021-11-27 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 19 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about bdstudyworld.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.