Verdict
hvpmcoet.in is low-trust and potentially risky.
Several risk patterns were present. Do not send money or personal details until you have verified this business another way.
| What this site appears to be | Official college website for HVPM COET providing institutional overview, academic program details, admissions information, accreditation documents, committees, downloadable audit reports and contact details. |
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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 | 3 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 12 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2014Public 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 2014.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This website presents itself as the official HVPM College of Engineering and Technology portal, providing institutional information, academic departments, admissions and fee details, accreditation materials, governance documents, research and placement resources, and student-support information. Its apparent purpose is to serve as an educational institution’s public information and admissions channel rather than a direct commercial or financial service.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site content is internally consistent with an educational institution and the reviewed pages show no login form, sensitive-input form, wallet functionality, hidden form, or other on-page phishing mechanism. However, this benign presentation is outweighed by confirmed adverse external reputation signals: the domain is blacklisted by multiple external sources, and three malicious detections were recorded. These are material contradictions for any sensitive interaction, even though no distinct conflicting legal identities or direct brand-impersonation indicators were identified in the page content. The site’s apparent institutional identity therefore remains unverified rather than proven.
- The homepage identifies HVPM COET as a college and lists academic, admissions, governance, and student-support content; page analysis found no red flags.
- External reputation assessment recorded 3 malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist status.
- Domain registration records show creation on 2014-06-02 and an age of 12.22 years.
- Historical records identify website activity from 2014-09-25 through 2026-05-13, covering 13 years of tracked history; archival coverage is sparse.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The legal and institutional content is substantial: the site states permanent affiliation with Sant Gadgebaba Amravati University and approval by AICTE, DTE, and the Maharashtra Government. It also provides sections for accreditation and ranking status, recognition and approval, annual accounting reports, governing bodies, grievance procedures, and mandatory self-disclosure. These materials support an apparent institutional purpose, but the real-world operator is not independently verified by the available evidence, and no separate licensing or registration number is established in the supplied analysis. The claims should therefore be treated as on-site assertions requiring confirmation through the relevant academic and government authorities. The site’s modest page-authority profile is contextual only and does not resolve the external reputation contradiction.
- The homepage and “About HEI” materials state affiliation with Sant Gadgebaba Amravati University and approvals by AICTE, DTE, and the Maharashtra Government.
- Accreditation, recognition, annual accounting, governing-body, grievance, and self-disclosure sections are listed within the institutional navigation.
- Hosting resolves to AS133643, EWEBGURU-AS – EWEBGURU, IN.
- The site uses a DV TLS certificate issued by YR1, valid until 2026-10-03T08:53:38+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before admissions, fee payment, document submission, or account creation, an institution or payment counterparty should independently confirm the college’s affiliation and stated approvals through official university and government registries. The admissions and fee pages should be checked for payment instructions, refund terms, and the exact legal recipient of funds; those details should match information obtained through an independently sourced institutional contact channel. Any requested academic or identity documents should be submitted only after that independent confirmation.
- The admissions section provides an admission process, guidelines, prospectus, fee structure, and fee-refund policy for review.
- The “About HEI” section identifies accreditation, recognition, approval, and self-disclosure areas suitable for independent cross-checking.
- The contact page and institutional directory provide the site’s stated contact routes for comparison with independently obtained contact information.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated sensitive-interaction risk. The site appears institutionally structured and presents credible-looking educational content, but the confirmed external blacklist and malicious detections prevent the available evidence from supporting routine trust or verified identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website resolves directly to a single apparent origin endpoint and is not shown behind a CDN or WAF. This configuration does not itself establish maliciousness, but it provides limited edge-level mitigation compared with a site using mainstream protective infrastructure.
Closing Assessment
Public informational review may continue, but admissions, payments, credential submission, and transfer of personal documents should remain deferred until the institution and transaction details have been independently confirmed through authoritative channels.
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 analysis engine.
01 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat
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 hvpmcoet.in.
- The request stayed on hvpmcoet.in. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Endurance International Group India Private Limited. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ewebguru.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-06-02. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2014-09-25. Clear
- It is hosted on EWEBGURU-AS, from a server in IN. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Endurance International Group India Private Limited |
|---|---|
| Hosting | EWEBGURU-AS - EWEBGURU, IN |
| Country | IN |
| Server IP | 103.133.214.49 |
| Name servers | ns1-shiva.ewebguru.com, ns2-shiva.ewebguru.com |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-03 |
| Domain age | 12.22 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-06-02 |
| Archive first seen | 2014-09-25 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 3 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about hvpmcoet.in 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.