Verdict
ifsp.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 for Instituto Federal de São Paulo (IFSP) containing institutional information, news, course listings, campus details, administrative links, and social media references. |
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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 | 17 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20095000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Amazon RSA 2048 M01 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2009.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This website is the institutional portal of Instituto Federal de São Paulo (IFSP), presenting government-education information on courses, campuses, institutional news, administrative services, contacts, accessibility, and official social-media channels rather than a commercial product or transactional business model.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage identifies IFSP and the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo, while its structure, content, accessibility functions, institutional sections, and government references are consistent with a public education portal. External reputation checks recorded no malicious or suspicious detections, no phishing or brand-impersonation indicators were identified, and the page contained no login form, hidden form, or sensitive submission flow. The available evidence therefore supports an apparently legitimate, low-risk website, while not independently proving the real-world operator identity.
- The homepage presents “Instituto Federal de São Paulo” and “MINISTÉRIO DA EDUCAÇÃO” alongside institutional news, courses, campuses, administrative services, and access-to-information content.
- The homepage’s behavioral analysis identified no login form, hidden form, wallet activity, cloaking, clipboard manipulation, or suspicious inline scripts.
- Registered 2009-06-03 (~17.21 years old).
- The archive records 5,000 snapshots from 2009-09-26 to 2025-12-11, spanning 17 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s apparent institutional purpose is public education, not a financial or commercial service requiring broker-style licensing. The supplied pages do not present a commercial license claim or registration number; this is a limited disclosure point to document for institutional due diligence, not evidence of a scam and not inconsistent with the stated education model. The homepage does provide substantive institutional identity, administrative sections, contact pathways, accessibility features, and references to federal-government information services. The available evidence is consistent with an established site, although the operator’s real-world identity remains likely rather than independently verified.
- The homepage title is “IFSP - Portal Institucional - Página inicial,” and the page identifies the institution as Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo.
- The site provides institutional sections covering campuses, the rectorate, administration, education, research, extension, institutional documents, data protection, and contacts.
- Hosted on AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US).
- TLS certificate issued by Amazon RSA 2048 M01, validation level DV, valid to 2026-12-27T23:59:59+00:00.
What to Verify Next
For formal engagement, the institution’s name and domain should be cross-checked against an independently sourced Brazilian federal education directory or official government record. Any request for credentials, fees, documents, or payment should be validated through contact details obtained independently of the website, with the applicable service terms, refund arrangements, and payment protections confirmed before proceeding.
- The homepage identifies the institution and links to institutional contacts, administrative services, and official social-media channels that can be cross-referenced through independent sources.
- The portal presents an education and public-service model rather than a commercial checkout or financial-services flow.
- The supplied analysis found no sensitive form or untrusted form destination on the homepage.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate institutional website. Its overall posture is high trust and low risk, with no observed scam, phishing, blacklist, or impersonation contradiction. The positive assessment should be understood as a website-trust conclusion rather than independent proof of the real-world operator’s identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site uses shared Amazon content-delivery infrastructure, a technically conventional arrangement that can provide resilience and reduce direct exposure of application infrastructure. This is a mitigating technical signal only and does not independently establish institutional ownership or legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary independent checks of institutional identity, service terms, and payment protections should precede any credential or payment interaction, while routine informational use is proportionate to the available evidence.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-13 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=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 ifsp.edu.br.
- The request stayed on ifsp.edu.br. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by awsdns-55.com, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2009-09-26. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2600:9000:20a8:3a00:8:bda2:f540:93a1 |
| Name servers | ns-443.awsdns-55.com, ns-1296.awsdns-34.org, ns-1905.awsdns-46.co.uk, ns-719.awsdns-25.net |
| SSL issuer | Amazon RSA 2048 M01 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-27 |
| Domain age | 17.21 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2009-09-26 |
| Archive snapshots | 5000 |
| 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 ifsp.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.