Verdict
ifrs.edu.br appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Official portal of Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (IFRS) with navigation to campuses, courses, news, editais, transparency documents and contact information; aimed at students, staff and the public. |
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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 | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 18 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by RNP ICPEdu GR46 OV TLS CA 2025 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This website presents itself as the official institutional portal of Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (IFRS), providing public information about campuses, courses, admissions notices, news, academic services, administrative documents, transparency resources, and institutional contacts for students, staff, and the wider public.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No scam, phishing, impersonation, or other identity-contradiction signals were observed. The homepage content is consistent with a public federal education portal: it presents institutional information, courses, campuses, notices, news, and transparency materials, with no commercial deposit, investment, or payment-driven business model. External reputation checks recorded no malicious or suspicious detections, and no conflicting legal identities were identified. The available evidence therefore supports a low scam or impersonation risk assessment, while the real-world operator connection remains likely rather than independently proven.
- The homepage identifies IFRS and provides navigation to campuses, courses, notices, institutional documents, transparency resources, and public-service information.
- Page analysis found no phishing indicators, no login form, no hidden forms, no wallet activity, and no brand-impersonation finding.
- The domain was registered on 2009-01-13 and is approximately 17.6 years old.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and a traffic rank of 40631.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s apparent role is that of a public federal educational institution rather than a financial or other commercially regulated service provider. Its institutional navigation includes public-service and accountability materials such as the Carta de Serviços, Ouvidoria, institutional planning documents, management information, and transparency resources. These disclosures are consistent with the stated educational purpose, but they do not independently establish the real-world operator’s identity; licensing or registration verification is not applicable to the non-commercial education activities described on the site and should not be inferred from the presence of institutional content. The transport certificate provides an additional consistency signal because its organization field names the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Sul.
- The homepage and institutional navigation identify the organization as Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and expose institutional history, governance, contact, and transparency sections.
- The site is served from AS16509, Amazon.com, Inc. (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US).
- The TLS certificate is OV-validated, issued by RNP ICPEdu GR46 OV TLS CA 2025, names INST. FEDERAL DE EDUCACAO, CIENCIA E TEC. DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL as the subject organization, and is valid until 2027-02-15.
- The site links to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Flickr accounts presented as institutional social channels.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions associated with any future service reached through the domain, the institution’s legal identity should be confirmed independently through an authoritative Brazilian government or education registry. Contact details should also be cross-checked through an independently sourced institutional channel, and any payment or enrollment transaction should use documented institutional procedures and available payment protections.
- The site exposes dedicated Contact, About, institutional history, and transparency areas suitable for cross-checking against independent records.
- The portal identifies its audience as students, staff, and the public and presents academic and administrative services rather than a commercial transaction flow.
- The site contains a contact form but no sensitive form or password-collection mechanism was observed.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk. Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate public-sector education website, with no observed contradiction suggesting scam activity or impersonation. The operator identity should nevertheless be treated as likely rather than independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The service uses a content-delivery-network deployment, which can improve availability and reduce direct exposure of serving infrastructure. This is a mitigating technical characteristic, not independent proof of institutional legitimacy.
- The observed hosting usage is categorized as Content Delivery Network infrastructure.
- Behavioral testing recorded stable successful page delivery, no cloaking, no suspicious scripts, no clipboard manipulation, and no wallet-drainer activity.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary browsing and public-information use are proportionate to the assessed posture. Independent identity, transaction, and payment-protection checks remain appropriate before submitting credentials or making any payment.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-17 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 80/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 80% |
- Identity verified on page
- Trusted social count=5
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 ifrs.edu.br.
- The request stayed on ifrs.edu.br. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
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| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2600:9000:2171:5600:6:de28:2680:93a1 |
| Name servers | doug.ns.cloudflare.com, shubhi.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | RNP ICPEdu GR46 OV TLS CA 2025 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-02-15 |
| Domain age | 17.60 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about ifrs.edu.br 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.