Verdict
bsspbd.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-looking site for the Bangladesh Society for Study of Pain (BSSP) with history, membership information, journal notices, events and contact details (phone, email, physical address). No signs of credential harvesting or financial fraud. |
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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 | 8 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 22 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2004Public 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 2004.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet, Kaspersky, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
The website presents itself as the Bangladesh Society for Study of Pain (BSSP), an informational medical-professional association offering organizational history, membership services, journal notices, conferences, workshops, events, and contact information; its apparent operating model is membership and event-based professional-society activity.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
External security intelligence identifies a confirmed blacklist event, including eight malicious detections and one suspicious detection, with multiple security providers contributing threat classifications. This is a decisive contradiction to the otherwise professional presentation and requires a security-forward posture for sensitive interaction. The page review found no login form, credential-harvesting mechanism, financial-fraud indicators, or suspected brand impersonation; however, those benign page characteristics do not neutralize the external detections. The observed four suspicious inline scripts are an additional technical concern, although no external network activity, hidden forms, wallet activity, or cloaking was observed during testing. No conflicting legal-entity names were observed across the reviewed identity material.
- The external reputation assessment recorded 8 malicious and 1 suspicious detections, with a confirmed blacklist result and three Tier-1 security providers flagging the site.
- The homepage was captured successfully and presented BSSP history, membership, journal, event, and contact content without a login or sensitive-data form.
- The behavioral assessment recorded 4 suspicious inline scripts, 0 external XHR/fetch requests, 0 hidden forms, and 0 wallet-connection or wallet-drainer runs.
- Domain registration records show registration on 2004-10-01, an age of 21.9 years, and registrar PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com.
- Web-archive records contain 72 snapshots spanning 2004–2026, with 23 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents a professional-society identity through its About Us, History, Executive Committee, Founder, and Constitution pages, and describes an affiliation with the International Association for the Study of Pain. Its regulatory status remains unverified: the supplied site content does not display a license claim, licensing authority, or registration number. This is a verification and disclosure gap rather than an identity contradiction, but it is material before relying on the site for paid membership, event registration, or other formal dealings. A valid transport certificate and an identified hosting environment provide technical facts, not proof of organizational legitimacy.
- The About Us and History pages state that BSSP was formed in 1997 and describe an affiliation as a chapter of the International Association for the Study of Pain in 2004.
- The site navigation exposes Constitution, Executive Committee, Founder, Membership Form, Publication, Journal, News & Events, and Contact pages.
- No license claim, licensing authority, or license number is displayed in the supplied business-model and regulatory content.
- The site uses a DV TLS certificate issued by YR1, valid to 2026-10-04T09:10:06+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, an institution should independently confirm that the domain is an authorized channel for the named society, preferably through an established medical or academic institution or an independently sourced association directory. Any membership or event payment should be checked against independently confirmed beneficiary details, refund terms, and payment-protection arrangements. The published support and contact channels should be corroborated through an offline or independently obtained route, and the site's stated professional affiliation should be confirmed directly with the named external organization.
- The site's About Us and Constitution materials provide the identity claims that require independent institutional confirmation.
- The Membership Form and News & Events areas identify the interaction points requiring payment, registration, or submission review.
- The Contact page is the site's stated channel for organizational correspondence and should be corroborated independently before use.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk, with sensitive interaction risk driven by confirmed external threat and blacklist contradictions. The site's professional presentation and apparently conventional purpose are insufficient to establish that sensitive use is appropriate, and the real-world operator identity remains unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to two likely origin IPs and has no detected CDN or WAF edge layer. Confirmed technical evidence places the service on AS29802, HVC-AS — HIVELOCITY, Inc., in the United States; this hosting arrangement offers no independent legitimacy assurance and does not offset the external reputation findings.
Closing Assessment
Restrict activity to passive review unless independent institutional, organizational, and payment-channel checks resolve the identified concerns; account login, credential submission, and financial interaction should not proceed on the present evidence.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-19 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
- 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 carried inline scripts written in a style TrustSniffer treats as suspicious.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_SUSPICIOUS_INLINE_SCRIPTS - 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 | 25% |
- 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 bsspbd.com.
- The request stayed on bsspbd.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ihostman.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-10-01. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2004-12-07. Clear
- It is hosted on HVC-AS, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com |
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| Hosting | HVC-AS - HIVELOCITY, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 23.29.115.2 |
| Name servers | NS5.IHOSTMAN.COM, NS6.IHOSTMAN.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-04 |
| Domain age | 21.90 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-10-01 |
| Archive first seen | 2004-12-07 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 8 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about bsspbd.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.