Verdict
beparwal.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 | Official-looking district education council site (BEP Arwal) offering program descriptions, news/notices, tenders, recruitment and contact details. No obvious financial services or credential-harvesting elements detected. |
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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 | 9 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 13 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2017Public 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 2017.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
The website presents itself as the Arwal district portal of the Bihar Education Project Council, offering public-sector information on elementary-education programs, news and notices, recruitment, tenders, school resources, and contact details rather than commercial products or financial services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s informational presentation is internally consistent with a government or education portal: the homepage identifies “BEP ARWAL” and describes the Bihar Education Project Council, while its navigation covers programs, recruitment, tenders, notices, and public resources. However, this benign page content conflicts with serious external threat intelligence: the domain is blacklisted, and multiple evaluated sources recorded malicious detections, including a Tier-1 detection. No page-level phishing form, credential-harvesting mechanism, financial solicitation, brand-impersonation pattern, or suspicious browser behavior was observed, but those observations do not resolve the external reputation contradiction. The appropriate posture is therefore to treat sensitive interaction with the site as unsafe despite its official-looking content.
- The homepage describes BEP Arwal as an organization supporting universal elementary education in Arwal, Bihar, and provides links for programs, notices, recruitment, tenders, and contact information.
- External reputation assessment recorded 9 malicious detections from 14 evaluated results and a confirmed blacklist status; one Tier-1 threat detection was also recorded.
- The site’s behavioral capture recorded no login form, hidden sensitive form, external password submission, wallet connection, clipboard manipulation, or cloaking activity.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The website makes a public-sector identity claim by associating itself with the Bihar Education Project Council and describing district education functions, but the real-world operator identity remains unverified. Ownership and governance disclosures are not sufficiently established in the supplied evidence, and no license or registration number is claimed; this is relevant as an identity and disclosure gap rather than proof of fraud. The site does not present a regulated financial business model, and the available broker-reputation context contains no matching record. The external blacklist and malicious detections remain the decisive trust concern, while the site’s public-service content provides useful context but cannot authenticate the operator.
- The homepage identifies “Bihar Education Project Council (BEPC) - Arwal” and states that the council has district offices across Bihar with its main office in Patna.
- Domain registration records show registration on 2013-09-18 and an age of 12.93 years, with GoDaddy.com, LLC listed as registrar.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YE2, valid through 2026-11-04.
What to Verify Next
Before any account, credential, document, or other sensitive interaction, an institution should independently confirm that the domain is an officially authorized web address through a government or education-department source that was obtained separately from the site. The stated district-office affiliation should also be confirmed through an independently sourced telephone number or official directory, and any recruitment or tender communication should be matched against the relevant government publication channel. Sensitive actions should remain suspended unless those checks reconcile the site’s identity and the external reputation findings.
- The homepage publishes the organization description, district-office claim, notices, recruitment material, tenders, and a contact number that can be checked through an independent official channel.
- The page analysis found no visible payment, investment, or credential-submission workflow, so verification should focus on authenticity of the portal and any linked documents rather than a commercial transaction model.
- The site has a low page-authority result and lacks detected structured metadata, which reduces the usefulness of the website itself as an independent source of institutional authentication.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk with sensitive-interaction risk. The site appears to provide legitimate-looking public education information, but that appearance is outweighed by confirmed external reputation contradictions and the absence of independently verified operator identity. It should not be treated as an authenticated official portal for sensitive activity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is hosted directly through AS-HOSTINGER, Hostinger International Limited, CY, on AS47583, with infrastructure located in Ukraine; no CDN or WAF edge layer was identified. Direct hosting does not by itself indicate maliciousness, but it provides limited protective separation between the website and its hosting environment. The observed TLS certificate is domain-validated rather than organization-validated, so encryption of the connection should not be interpreted as confirmation of institutional ownership.
Closing Assessment
Treat the domain as unsuitable for login, credential submission, document exchange, or other sensitive use unless independent official-channel checks first establish that it is authorized and that the reputation contradiction has been 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, 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 beparwal.org.
- The request stayed on beparwal.org. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by dns-parking.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-09-18. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2017-01-10. Clear
- It is hosted on AS-HOSTINGER, from a server in UA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AS-HOSTINGER - Hostinger International Limited, CY |
| Country | UA |
| Server IP | 2a02:4780:45:aaff:534a:339f:c67f:b990 |
| Name servers | ns1.dns-parking.com, ns2.dns-parking.com |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-04 |
| Domain age | 12.93 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-09-18 |
| Archive first seen | 2017-01-10 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 9 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about beparwal.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.