Verdict
bucaramangadc.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 | Local community portal for Bucaramanga offering a business directory, 'passport' visitor program, blog content, and paid listing plans for merchants. |
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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 | 13 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 45% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 49 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 5.0 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2021247 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | 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.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
The website is a Bucaramanga-focused local community and commercial discovery portal presenting an apparently city-oriented service for exploring businesses, visitor engagement, local content, and merchant promotion.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content presents a coherent local-directory concept and does not show page-level phishing or brand-impersonation indicators. However, this benign presentation is outweighed by confirmed external security contradictions: the domain is subject to blacklist detections, including multiple malicious classifications and flags from Fortinet and Sophos. Abuse reports associated with the observed IP are attributed to shared CDN infrastructure and therefore are contextual rather than conclusive evidence against this site specifically, but the domain-level malicious detections and confirmed blacklist status remain material. The domain also has a substantial registration and archival history, which supports continuity of the website but does not neutralize the security findings.
- The domain was registered on 2021-08-30 and is recorded as approximately 4.98 years old; the registration registrar is Hello Internet Corp.
- The web archive records 247 snapshots from 2021-11-27 through 2026-02-20, with 6 years tracked and a maximum recorded gap of 1 year.
- External security assessment recorded 13 malicious detections and a confirmed external blacklist status; Fortinet and Sophos were among the flagged vendors.
- The observed IP, 185.158.133.1, has 49 abuse reports attributed to shared CDN infrastructure operated by Internet Utilities Europe and Asia Limited, with a confidence score of 45.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage describes a local business directory with merchant listing plans, a Bucaramanga visitor “passport” based on QR-coded venue stamps and progression from “Turista” to “Leyenda,” and paid promotional options alongside free listings. This is an informational and commercial community model rather than evidence of a regulated financial service. No license, licensing authority, or license number is claimed in the available site profile, and the operator’s real-world identity is not independently verified. That disclosure position is a regulatory and governance verification gap, not by itself proof of fraud; nevertheless, it is significant when considered alongside the confirmed external security findings.
- The homepage identifies the service as a Bucaramanga city portal offering business discovery, a visitor passport, blog content, and merchant plans.
- The business model record states that no license is claimed and provides no licensing authority or license number.
- The site is served through AS13335, identified as CLOUDFLARENET — Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- The site’s TLS certificate uses DV validation, is issued by WE1, and is valid to 2026-11-05.
What to Verify Next
Before any commercial engagement, an independent check should establish the legal entity responsible for the portal and confirm any municipal or commercial registration applicable to its paid merchant-listing activities. Any payment arrangement should use a protected method with clear dispute and refund rights, and official contact channels should be confirmed through an independent route rather than relying solely on information presented on the site. The business-submission and registration workflows should also be reviewed for the specific data requested and the terms governing paid placement.
- The homepage exposes registration and business-submission workflows but no sensitive password form was observed during the available interaction.
- The site presents paid listing plans, making confirmation of the contracting entity, billing terms, cancellation terms, and refund process directly relevant.
- The available identity-verification record contains no independent signal connecting the website to a verified real-world operator.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical and unsuitable for sensitive interaction. The site has a credible-looking local-community presentation and continuity indicators, but confirmed security contradictions dominate the assessment and prevent the website from being treated as trustworthy for account, credential, or financial activity.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection is present, and the observed address is a Cloudflare edge IP rather than an identified origin server. This provides a meaningful exposure-mitigation layer, but edge protection is an infrastructure control only and cannot establish the legitimacy of the operator or offset the external security findings.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users should restrict activity to passive viewing and should not log in, submit credentials, or conduct financial transactions unless the operator, applicable registrations, and payment protections have been independently confirmed.
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, behaviour in a sandbox, 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 - Most of what the page loaded came from other domains rather than from this one.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_HIGH - 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
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 49 reports on hosting IP 185.158.133.1 (Internet Utilities Europe and Asia Limited, Content Delivery Network), 45% 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 bucaramangadc.com.
- The request stayed on bucaramangadc.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Hello Internet Corp. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by com.co, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-08-30. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-11-27. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in AE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Hello Internet Corp |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | AE |
| Server IP | 185.158.133.1 |
| Name servers | NAMESERVER01.MI.COM.CO, NAMESERVER02.MI.COM.CO, NAMESERVER03.MI.COM.CO, NAMESERVER04.MI.COM.CO |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-05 |
| Domain age | 4.98 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-08-30 |
| Archive first seen | 2021-11-27 |
| Archive snapshots | 247 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 13 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 45% confidence, 49 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about bucaramangadc.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.