---
title: "Is minsalud.gov.co Legit? Trust Score 100/100"
source: TrustSniffer
type: Website trust & fraud report
subject: "minsalud.gov.co"
verdict: "High Trust"
title: "Is minsalud.gov.co Legit? Trust Score 100/100"
trust_score: 100
classification_confidence: 70
canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/minsalud.gov.co
assessed: 2026-08-13
---

# Is minsalud.gov.co legit? TrustSniffer's high-trust assessment: 100/100

## Verdict


**Verdict: High Trust, trust score 100/100.** minsalud.gov.co appears legitimate.

Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.

Labels: Not Scam, Low Risk

Assessed 2026-08-13 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 70%.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| What this site appears to be | Official-looking ministry website (Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social, Colombia) offering login access, news, public health resources, contact numbers, addresses, and links to social channels. No evidence of financial solicitation or high-risk behavior in the captured content. |

## 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.

| Check | Result | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Malware engines | None flagged it (VirusTotal) | Clear |
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reports (AbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count) | Noted |
| Domain age | 29 years old (Registered history) | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 1997 (24 snapshots) | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1) | 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 1997.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.

## Full analysis


### Overview

This website is an apparently official Colombian Ministry of Health and Social Protection portal presenting public-health information, government news, citizen services, transparency resources, institutional documents, contact channels, and a standard login function for public-sector users.


### Scam/Impersonation Risk

No contradictions were observed. The site’s public-service content, ministry branding, institutional navigation, and absence of financial solicitation or high-risk functionality are consistent with a legitimate government information portal. The login form is present, but the captured behavior showed no hidden forms, external password submission, wallet activity, cloaking, or other credential-harvesting indicators. External reputation results were clean, and the site has an established traffic footprint. The available evidence therefore supports a low scam and impersonation risk, while the real-world operator identity remains likely rather than independently proven.


Evidence:
- The homepage and citizen-services pages present “Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social,” public-health topics, transparency resources, government news, and citizen contact functions.
- The captured login page contained one login form without a sensitive-form indicator or untrusted destination.
- Historical domain evidence records registration on 1998-10-28, with an age of 27.81 years.
- Archive evidence records 24 snapshots spanning 1997–2020, covering 24 tracked years without detected repurposing or semantic drift.

### Regulatory Verification Notes

The website presents itself as a public-sector ministry portal rather than a commercial or financial service, so no financial licensing claim is expected from the captured content. Its transparency and citizen-service sections provide an institutional disclosure framework, but the supplied pages do not independently establish the real-world operator beyond the ministry identity presented on the site. That distinction is material for formal onboarding: the available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate government website, but identity verification is not conclusive. No adverse broker-reputation match was identified.


Evidence:
- The homepage navigation includes “Transparencia y acceso a la información pública,” “Atención y Servicios a la Ciudadanía,” institutional documents, and formal complaints and requests channels.
- The site’s transport encryption uses an OV certificate issued by GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1 to “MINISTERIO DE SALUD Y PROTECCION SOCIAL,” valid through 2026-11-19.
- The page title and visible content identify “MinSalud - Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social,” with links to institutional social channels and public-service resources.

### What to Verify Next

Before credential submission, an enterprise or regulated user should independently confirm the domain through an official Colombian government directory or an established ministry contact route rather than relying solely on the site’s own identity presentation. Any account access should be limited to the expected ministry service and should use the institution’s normal authentication process; payment or procurement activity should additionally follow the organization’s standard government-vendor and payment-protection controls.


Evidence:
- Independent confirmation should use the ministry’s published citizen-service or formal contact pathway.
- The expected use case is public-sector information and citizen services, not investment, trading, or payment solicitation.

### Summary Verdict

The overall posture is **high trust and low risk**, and the website appears legitimate and established on the basis of converging content, historical, technical, and external-reputation evidence. The classification supports normal public-service interaction, subject to the remaining uncertainty that the real-world operator has not been independently verified.


### Infrastructure Integrity

The site resolves through two likely origin addresses hosted on AS19429, identified as ETB in Colombia; no CDN vendor or edge-IP layer was identified. This provides a clear hosting path, while the absence of an observed CDN/WAF layer means protective infrastructure should be treated only as a limited mitigating consideration rather than evidence of legitimacy.


### Closing Assessment

Ordinary browsing and relevant public-service use are proportionate to the assessed posture; credential or payment interactions should proceed only after the ordinary independent institutional and transaction checks described above.


_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


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| 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 minsalud.gov.co.

- The request stayed on minsalud.gov.co. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear)
- Registration is published under www.registrocolombia.co. (Clear)
- DNS for this domain is served by azure-dns.net, across 4 name servers. (Noted)
- The registration is paid up to 2026-12-31. (Noted)
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1997-10-14. (Clear)
- It is hosted on AS19429, from a server in CO. (Noted)

## Domain intelligence


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Registrar | www.registrocolombia.co |
| Hosting | AS19429 - ETB - Colombia, CO |
| Country | CO |
| Server IP | 2801:18c::171 |
| Name servers | NS2-36.AZURE-DNS.NET, NS1-36.AZURE-DNS.COM, NS4-36.AZURE-DNS.INFO, NS3-36.AZURE-DNS.ORG |
| SSL issuer | GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-19 |
| Domain age | 28.83 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-12-31 |
| Archive first seen | 1997-10-14 |
| Archive snapshots | 24 |
| 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 minsalud.gov.co 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.

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*Source: [TrustSniffer](https://trustsniffer.com/report/minsalud.gov.co) — independent automated trust & fraud analysis. Cite as https://trustsniffer.com/report/minsalud.gov.co · assessed 2026-08-13.*