Verdict
bundelkhandsamachar.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 | Hindi-language local news website (Bundelkhand Samachar) publishing regional articles across politics, crime, entertainment and business. Includes login and recovery forms, social links and contact email; appears editorial and ad-supported. |
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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 | 11 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 52% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 69 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Risk |
| Domain age | 8.3 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2011Public 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 2011.
- 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.
This website is a Hindi-language local news portal branded “Bundelkhand Samachar,” presenting regional reporting across politics, crime, entertainment, business and other news categories, with an advertising- and audience-engagement-based model that includes social links, registration and account-recovery functionality.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s editorial content and local-news presentation do not themselves show a deceptive financial offer, brand impersonation, or conflicting legal identities. Nevertheless, the site carries a confirmed blacklist signal: 11 malicious detections were recorded, including Tier-1 detections from Fortinet and Sophos, and the domain was also identified by an external blacklist. The associated IP has 69 abuse reports, but those reports are attributed to shared WHG Hosting Services infrastructure rather than specifically to this website; this reduces the precision of that signal but does not offset the separate domain-level malicious detections. The presence of login and password-recovery forms creates a sensitive interaction surface despite the absence of observed wallet, payment, or external password-submission behavior.
- The homepage presents “Bundelkhand Samachar” as a Hindi news site covering Madhya Pradesh, national, international, political, business, entertainment and crime reporting.
- External reputation telemetry recorded 11 malicious detections, with Fortinet and Sophos identified among the flagged vendors; the domain was also marked by an external blacklist.
- The associated IP address, 190.92.174.29, has 69 abuse reports with a confidence score of 52; attribution is to shared infrastructure operated by WHG Hosting Services Ltd.
- Domain registration telemetry records creation on 2018-05-15 and an age of 8.27 years, with GoDaddy.com, LLC as registrar.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The apparent identity is consistent with a functioning local media publication and is reinforced by links to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube, but the real-world operator has not been independently verified. The available site content does not claim a license or provide a registration number; for a news publisher this is a transparency and regulatory-verification gap rather than, by itself, proof of fraud. Transport security is present, but the certificate provides domain validation only. The site is hosted by WHG-IN - WHG Hosting Services Ltd in Great Britain, registered through RIPE NCC, and uses AS199404.
- The homepage links to four social platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.
- The supplied site content contains no stated license authority or license number.
- Hosting telemetry identifies AS199404, WHG-IN - WHG Hosting Services Ltd, GB.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by YR2, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-10-01T05:30:48+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any account creation or credential submission, an institution should independently confirm that the domain is the publisher’s officially authorized web property through a trusted offline or separately sourced contact route. The publisher’s legal identity, editorial registration status where applicable, and responsible-person details should be checked against relevant Indian business or media records. Any account credentials used on the site should be unique and should not be reused elsewhere; security monitoring should review whether the domain or associated infrastructure remains listed by reputable threat-intelligence services.
- The homepage contains sign-in and password-recovery forms.
- The contact page is available as an internal site destination and should be compared with independently sourced publisher details.
- The site presents itself as a local news and media publication rather than a financial-services provider.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical risk for sensitive interaction. The site appears to have a plausible local-news identity and ordinary editorial functionality, but the confirmed malicious and blacklist signals materially outweigh those benign presentation features. Apparent legitimacy should therefore not be treated as sufficient assurance for account, credential or other sensitive use.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single hosting origin, with no detected CDN or WAF layer and no edge-IP separation. This provides limited infrastructure-level mitigation against exposure, and the hosting environment should be regarded only as a technical delivery context—not as evidence of operator legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Passive reading may be limited to low-sensitivity use, while login, credential submission and any other sensitive interaction should be withheld unless independent identity and security validation produces clear, current assurance.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 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 - The page rewrote itself after it was interacted with, so what a visitor first sees is not what they end up on.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_DOM_DIFF_AFTER_INTERACTION - 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: 69 reports on hosting IP 190.92.174.29 (WHG Hosting Services Ltd, Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 52% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 80/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 80% |
- Trusted social count=4
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 bundelkhandsamachar.com.
- The request stayed on bundelkhandsamachar.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by onlinespot.in, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-05-15. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2011-07-22. Clear
- It is hosted on WHG-IN, from a server in GB. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
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| Hosting | WHG-IN - WHG Hosting Services Ltd, GB |
| Country | GB |
| Server IP | 190.92.174.29 |
| Name servers | NS1.ONLINESPOT.IN, NS2.ONLINESPOT.IN |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-01 |
| Domain age | 8.27 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-05-15 |
| Archive first seen | 2011-07-22 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 11 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 52% confidence, 69 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about bundelkhandsamachar.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.