Verdict
npspuc.com shows high-risk / scam indicators.
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
| What this site appears to be | Official-looking college website for 'Academy for Learning Pre University College' in Chikkabanavara, Bangalore. Provides program descriptions, campus facilities, admission information and contact details. No forms requesting credentials or payments are present in the provided DOM. |
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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 | 15 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 8.5 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2018Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2018.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This website presents itself as the Academy for Learning Pre University College in Chikkabanavara, Bangalore, offering pre-university Science and Commerce education, campus facilities, admissions guidance, contact services, and a tuition-based educational model.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s institutional presentation is internally consistent with an educational website, and the captured homepage contains no login form, credential request, payment form, wallet connection, or other evident data-capture mechanism. However, this benign page-level behavior is outweighed by confirmed external threat detections: the domain is blacklisted, 15 security detections classify it as malicious, and Fortinet and Sophos are among the flagged vendors. The evidence does not establish that the college content itself is a brand impersonation, but the confirmed blacklist and malicious classifications create a critical risk for sensitive interaction, particularly because infrastructure protections cannot offset the external reputation evidence.
- The homepage identifies an educational institution and presents courses, admissions information, facilities, and contact services without a sensitive form.
- External reputation assessment recorded 15 malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist from two listed sources.
- Historical records associated with the domain contain 17 archive snapshots spanning 2018–2025.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The About, leadership-message, course, admissions, and payment-procedure content provides an institutional narrative but does not independently verify the real-world operator. The available site material contains no claimed license or registration number, leaving the institution’s regulatory and educational authorization unresolved rather than establishing wrongdoing. The domain’s registration and transport security are established technical facts, but neither independently proves that the website is operated by the stated college.
- The domain was registered on 2018-02-26 and is approximately 8.48 years old; registrar: PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com.
- The site is hosted on AS31898, ORACLE-BMC-31898 - Oracle Corporation, US.
- TLS uses issuer YR2 with DV validation and is valid through 2026-10-20.
What to Verify Next
An institution or prospective counterparty should confirm the college’s legal operator and educational authorization through the relevant Indian education or state authority, using independently obtained contact details rather than relying solely on the website. Any admission fee or tuition payment should be validated against an independently confirmed institutional account and accompanied by an official receipt and documented refund terms. Sensitive account access or submission of identity and financial information should remain suspended unless the blacklist status and operator identity have been independently resolved.
- The admissions and payment-procedure sections create a potential payment-interaction surface even though no sensitive form was present in the captured homepage DOM.
- The site publishes institutional contact details and leadership pages that can be cross-checked through an offline or independently sourced channel.
- The domain’s observed malicious and blacklist classifications require resolution before sensitive interaction.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical and unsuitable for sensitive interaction. The website’s credible-looking educational content and stable technical presentation do not overcome the confirmed external threat detections, so the stated institutional identity remains unverified and the site should not be treated as a trusted online endpoint.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by a CDN/WAF arrangement, with observed edge addresses on AS16509 and a potential origin candidate, while the identified hosting provider is Oracle Corporation on AS31898. This provides some operational resilience and exposure reduction, but it is only a mitigating infrastructure signal and does not establish legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Restrict activity to non-sensitive observation until the external threat findings, operator identity, authorization, and payment arrangements have been independently cleared.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
2 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by registration and ownership, analysis engine, external reputation.
01 Governance Risk
- Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - An external threat feed lists this domain: either Google Safe Browsing marked it malicious, or a significant number of malware engines flagged it.External reputation
rule:EXT_BLACKLIST_CRITICAL
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 25% |
- 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 npspuc.com.
- The request stayed on npspuc.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by 3aces.in, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-02-26. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2018-08-06. Clear
- It is hosted on ORACLE-BMC-31898, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com |
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| Hosting | ORACLE-BMC-31898 - Oracle Corporation, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 50.6.199.204 |
| Name servers | NS1.3ACES.IN, NS2.3ACES.IN |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-20 |
| Domain age | 8.48 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-02-26 |
| Archive first seen | 2018-08-06 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 15 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about npspuc.com 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.