Verdict
redeformar.com.br 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 | Site for Rede Formar offering professional/vocational courses (notably veterinary assistant courses), with schedules, locations, certification info, contact email, phone and headquarters address. Content indicates accredited training (CRMV-MG) and enrollment CTAs. |
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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 | 5 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 6.6 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2021352 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | 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 2021.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Rede Formar is a Brazilian vocational-training website presenting professional courses, particularly small- and large-animal veterinary-assistant training and bathing and grooming, with course schedules, locations, certification information, and enrollment calls to action.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No page-level brand-impersonation, phishing, login, or deceptive-financial-promise indicators were observed, and the homepage presents a coherent vocational-education purpose. However, multiple external malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist presence are material contradictions that outweigh the otherwise credible page presentation and create a critical risk for credentials, payments, account creation, or other sensitive interaction. The available evidence does not establish that the site is impersonating a named brand, but its current reputation status requires a security-forward response.
- External reputation testing recorded 5 malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist status for the domain.
- The homepage capture showed no login form, hidden form, password submission, wallet connection, or sensitive external form.
- The domain was registered on 2020-01-10 and is approximately 6.61 years old.
- The archive contains 352 snapshots spanning 2021-04-13 through 2026-01-24, across 6 tracked years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s apparent operator identity remains unverified despite a registration record naming Gold Cursos Zacarias e Silva EIRELI. The website presents certification-related information and references CRMV-MG, but the available evidence does not independently establish a regulatory license, registration number, or the legal connection between that reference and the operating entity. This is a verification gap rather than proof of misconduct; nevertheless, it is significant because the site solicits paid course enrolments. The transport layer is technically valid, but domain-validation encryption confirms connection security only and does not validate the operator or its regulatory standing.
- The registration record identifies the owner as “Gold Cursos Zacarias e Silva EIRELI.”
- The observed network endpoint is associated with AS270439 – D S CUPERTINO SERVICOS DE HOSPEDAGEM NA INTERNET, BR.
- The site uses a DV TLS certificate issued by YR1, valid through 2026-11-07.
- The homepage presents certification information referencing CRMV-MG without an independently verified license number.
What to Verify Next
Before any enrolment, payment, or submission of personal information, an institution should independently confirm the named operating entity in the applicable Brazilian corporate registry and validate the CRMV-MG reference directly with the relevant authority. Course locations, refund terms, payment-recipient details, and the legitimacy of the published contact channels should be confirmed through an independently sourced route rather than relying solely on the website. Sensitive interaction should remain suspended until the external reputation conflict has been resolved.
- The homepage contains course enrolment calls to action and location-based schedules.
- The site content provides course, contact, telephone, and headquarters information for independent cross-checking.
- The homepage lacks detected structured data and a meta description, limiting automated corroboration of the organisation’s identity and offerings.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical risk, with sensitive interaction not appropriate on the basis of the available evidence. The site has a plausible educational presentation and operational continuity, but those positive characteristics do not overcome the confirmed external reputation contradictions or the unverified operator identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection was observed, and all observed IP addresses were CDN edge addresses; no origin-server candidate was identified. This reduces direct exposure of the underlying service and may mitigate some infrastructure-level attacks, but it is only a protective control and provides no assurance that the website or its operator is legitimate.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users and organisations should restrict activity to passive review until the operator, regulatory claims, payment arrangements, and external reputation status have been independently validated; credentials, payments, and account creation should not proceed in the current posture.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 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
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
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 | 50% |
- 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 redeformar.com.br.
- The request stayed on redeformar.com.br. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-01-10. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-04-13. Clear
- It is hosted on AS270439, from a server in BR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
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| Hosting | AS270439 - D S CUPERTINO SERVICOS DE HOSPEDAGEM NA INTERNET, BR |
| Country | BR |
| Server IP | 200.11.121.127 |
| Name servers | miles.ns.cloudflare.com, roxy.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-07 |
| Domain age | 6.61 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-01-10 |
| Archive first seen | 2021-04-13 |
| Archive snapshots | 352 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 5 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about redeformar.com.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.