Verdict
mohfw.gov.in 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 Ministry of Health & Family Welfare homepage (Government of India). Provides multilingual navigation, event highlight (World Health Day), links to departments and social media; cookie consent UI is present. |
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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 | 22 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20135000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | 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 2013.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This website is the public-service homepage of India’s Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, presenting multilingual public-health information, departmental resources, social-media links, and event announcements for visitors rather than commercial products, payments, or investments.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No phishing, impersonation, malicious-content, or conflicting-identity signals were observed. The homepage’s government-service content, multilingual navigation, Ministry branding, and “Powered by Government of India” attribution are consistent with an institutional public-service purpose. Historical evidence also supports continuity rather than repurposing, and the site’s observed behavior showed no sensitive forms, wallet activity, external submissions, or cloaking. The available evidence therefore supports an apparently legitimate, established website, while independently proving the real-world operator remains outside the scope of this assessment.
- The homepage identifies “Ministry of Health & Family Welfare” and provides public-health departments, multilingual navigation, and a World Health Day event.
- The domain was registered in 2005 and is approximately 21.53 years old.
- The archive records 5,000 snapshots across 10 tracked years, from 2013-08-22 through 2022-06-28, with a maximum recorded gap of 1 year.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and no phishing or blacklist hit.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents itself as a Government of India ministry and describes a non-commercial public-information function. Its available content does not present a financial licence or commercial registration number; for this stated business model, that is a limited disclosure note rather than evidence of deceptive activity. The registration record names National Informatics Centre as registrar and identifies the Ministry of Health and family Welfare as the organisation. These signals are consistent with an established institutional website, but the real-world operator identity is not independently verified by this assessment. No adverse broker-reputation match was identified.
- The homepage title is “Home | Ministry of Health & Family Welfare,” and the page labels the service as government/public service.
- WHOIS records show registrar National Informatics Centre, organisation “Ministry of Health and family Welfare,” creation date 2005-02-04T16:18:14Z, and expiry date 2027-02-04T16:18:14Z.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV TLS certificate issued by YR1, valid through 2026-10-25T06:38:15+00:00.
- The homepage states that it is “Powered by Government of India” and “Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.”
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions on any linked service, an organisation should independently confirm that the domain is referenced by an official Government of India source and that any linked service is operated by the same institution. Contact details and departmental links should be reached through independently verified government channels, and any transaction-specific page should be assessed separately because the reviewed homepage itself is informational and contains no sensitive form.
- The homepage provides links to the Department of Health & Family Welfare and the Department of Health Research.
- The homepage offers multilingual navigation and links to official social-media channels, providing cross-channel references for independent confirmation.
- Behavioral testing recorded 0 external XHR/fetch requests, 0 external POST submissions, 0 wallet-connect runs, and no hidden forms.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with the available evidence consistent with an established, apparently legitimate government website. No scam or impersonation contradictions were observed. The classification supports ordinary informational use, subject to routine independent confirmation of operator identity before credential or payment interactions.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves through infrastructure identified as AS4758, National Informatics Centre, with one resolved IP and no separately identified CDN edge. Transport telemetry also recorded AS20940, Akamai International B.V.; this reflects an observed serving-network layer rather than evidence of impersonation. The infrastructure provides a conventional, resolved hosting posture, while the valid TLS certificate is a positive transport-integrity signal rather than proof of identity.
- Infrastructure resolution: AS4758, National Informatics Centre, India; registry APNIC; 1 unique IP; 0 CDN edge IPs; 1 likely origin IP.
- Technical serving telemetry: AS20940, “AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL”; server IP 23.55.161.77.
- TLS validation level is DV; issuer YR1; certificate validity ends 2026-10-25T06:38:15+00:00.
Closing Assessment
Routine informational browsing is proportionate to the observed posture; before submitting credentials or making any payment through a linked service, ordinary independent checks of the relevant institution, service terms, and payment protections should be completed.
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 | UNVERIFIED |
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| Identity score | 55/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 60% |
- Identity verified on page
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 mohfw.gov.in.
- The request stayed on mohfw.gov.in. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under National Informatics Centre. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by nic.in, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-02-04. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2013-08-22. Clear
- It is hosted on AKAMAI-ASN1, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | National Informatics Centre |
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| Hosting | AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2001:2030:22::210:ab59 |
| Name servers | ns7.nic.in, ns1.nic.in, ns10.nic.in, ns2.nic.in |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-25 |
| Domain age | 21.53 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-02-04 |
| Archive first seen | 2013-08-22 |
| 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 mohfw.gov.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.