Verdict
pw.edu.pl 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 Politechnika Warszawska (Warsaw University of Technology) site: provides admissions information, research news, events, accessibility tools, and institutional contact details. Content is informational and funded by public grants and university programs. |
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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 | 32 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20041 snapshot | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GEANT TLS RSA 1 | 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 2004.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
pw.edu.pl is the public information portal of Politechnika Warszawska, presenting academic programs, admissions information, research activity, events, institutional services, accessibility resources, and university contact details for an educational and institutional audience.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent university identity, institutional navigation, academic services, and public-program funding information, with no detected phishing, impersonation, malicious-content, or abuse pattern. Available reputation evidence is consistent with a low-risk established website; however, the real-world operator identity has not been independently verified, so the apparent institutional identity should not be treated as independently proven.
- The homepage identifies “Politechnika Warszawska” and provides university-specific sections for faculties, authorities, admissions, research, campus services, library resources, and internal systems.
- External reputation checks recorded no malicious or suspicious detections, no confirmed blacklist hit, and no reported brand-impersonation pattern.
- Domain registration: 1995; age 31.63 years.
- Web-archive record: 1 snapshot dated 2004-04-27; 1 year tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The reviewed material describes an academic institution rather than a regulated financial or investment service. Institutional contact details, academic governance sections, research information, and public-grant funding references support the apparent purpose of the site. No regulatory license or registration number is presented in the reviewed material; this is a formal verification and disclosure point, not evidence of a scam in this context. The available evidence supports an apparently legitimate institutional website, while independent operator verification remains incomplete.
- The homepage includes “O nas,” “Władze Uczelni,” faculty, admissions, research, library, campus, and contact-related navigation.
- The homepage states that the website project was financed through the European Social Fund’s Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development 2014–2020.
- Hosting: AS12464, PW-NET – Politechnika Warszawska, Poland.
- TLS certificate: GEANT TLS RSA 1, OV validation, subject organisation Politechnika Warszawska, valid to 2027-02-07.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an organisation should independently confirm the university’s official contact channels and, where relevant, confirm admissions, tuition, refund, and payment-protection arrangements through an established institutional route rather than relying solely on website content. Any request that departs from the site’s stated academic and institutional purpose should receive separate confirmation through an offline or independently sourced channel.
- The homepage presents an informational university model rather than a direct-payment or high-risk financial-service model.
- The reviewed page contains no sensitive login form, hidden form, external password form, wallet connection, or payment form.
- The site’s contact and admissions pathways provide the appropriate subjects for independent confirmation before account or payment activity.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, and the available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website. The classification supports normal informational use, but it does not independently prove the real-world identity of the operator.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure. Observed addressing included Cloudflare edge servers and one potential origin candidate; this protection reduces direct exposure and is a mitigating security signal, but infrastructure protection alone is not proof of institutional legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Routine informational browsing is proportionate to the assessment; before submitting credentials or making payments, ordinary independent checks of institutional identity, transaction 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 pw.edu.pl.
- The request stayed on pw.edu.pl. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under nazwa.pl sp. z o.o.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by waw.pl, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-12-31. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2004-04-27. Clear
- It is hosted on PW-NET, from a server in PL. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | nazwa.pl sp. z o.o. |
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| Hosting | PW-NET - Politechnika Warszawska, PL |
| Country | PL |
| Server IP | 194.29.151.9 |
| Name servers | arwena.nask.waw.pl, dns.fuw.edu.pl, europa.coi.pw.edu.pl, io.coi.pw.edu.pl |
| SSL issuer | GEANT TLS RSA 1 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-02-07 |
| Domain age | 31.63 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-12-31 |
| Archive first seen | 2004-04-27 |
| Archive snapshots | 1 |
| 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 pw.edu.pl 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.