Verdict
sriramkrishnasaradacollegeofeducation.org 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/administrative website for Sri Ramkrishna Sarada College of Education (B.Ed & D.El.Ed) providing admissions, contact details, faculty/staff pages, notices and downloads. Appears informational and regional in scope. |
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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 | 14 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 4.9 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2017Public history exists | 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 2017.
- 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 official administrative site of Sri Ramkrishna Sarada College of Education in West Bengal, India, offering B.Ed. and D.El.Ed. programmes together with admissions information, notices, downloads, faculty and staff details, and institutional contact facilities.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s educational presentation is internally coherent and no page-level phishing, brand-impersonation, hidden-form, wallet, or suspicious-script indicators were identified. However, this benign presentation is outweighed by confirmed external contradiction signals: multiple threat-intelligence services classified the domain as malicious, and the domain appears on external blacklists. The available evidence does not establish that the college itself is fraudulent or that a specific impersonation has been proven, but the combination of malicious detections and blacklist status makes sensitive interaction unsuitable, particularly credential submission, account access, or payment activity.
- The homepage identifies Sri Ramkrishna Sarada College of Education and advertises B.Ed. and D.El.Ed. admissions, while page analysis found no login form, password form, hidden form, wallet connection, or suspicious inline script.
- External reputation analysis recorded 14 malicious detections from 19 evaluated results, including Tier-1 threat detections, and a confirmed blacklist status.
- Domain registration evidence records creation on 2021-09-30, with a WHOIS age of 4.89 years; archival records show 17 snapshots spanning 2017–2025.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The About and homepage content presents the institution as recognised by the National Council for Teacher Education and affiliated with Baba Saheb Ambedkar Education University and the West Bengal Board of Primary Education. Those are on-site claims rather than independently verified regulatory findings. The supplied pages do not provide a clearly verifiable licence, registration number, or accountable legal-entity disclosure, and independent identity verification remains incomplete. This is a material transparency gap for an organisation soliciting prospective students, even though the stated business model is conventional education rather than online financial services.
- The homepage states “RECOGNISED BY N.C.T.E.” and lists affiliations with Baba Saheb Ambedkar Education University and W.B.B.P.E.
- The available institutional navigation includes About Us, Courses, Staff, Notices, Downloads, and Contact Us, but the supplied content does not show a licence or registration number.
- The site’s transport encryption is provided by a DV certificate issued by YR1, valid through 2026-09-25.
What to Verify Next
Before any enrolment, document submission, or fee payment, the institution’s recognition and affiliations should be confirmed directly through the relevant education authorities and the named university’s official channels. The institution’s legal name, physical campus, admissions process, fee recipient, refund terms, and authorised payment details should also be confirmed using an independently sourced channel rather than relying solely on the website. Sensitive credentials and financial information should not be submitted while the external security contradiction remains unresolved.
- The homepage displays two help-desk telephone numbers and an institutional contact address, providing channels that can be checked independently against authoritative education records.
- The site was successfully served in two observed runs with stable HTTP 200 responses and no external network posts or external XHR activity.
- The homepage contains one search form and no detected sensitive-input form, so the observed site surface is primarily informational.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk despite the site’s credible-looking educational content and limited interactive surface. The evidence supports treating the website as unverified for sensitive engagement, with external security contradictions taking precedence over its institutional presentation.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to hosting infrastructure rather than a detected CDN edge, with no confirmed origin candidates or hidden-origin posture. This infrastructure provides limited mitigation: it is hosted by PUBLIC-DOMAIN-REGISTRY - PDR, US, and the presence of valid TLS confirms encrypted transport but does not establish site legitimacy.
- Served from AS394695 (PUBLIC-DOMAIN-REGISTRY - PDR, US), resolved in India.
- TLS certificate: issuer YR1, validation level DV, valid to 2026-09-25T17:00:24+00:00.
- Infrastructure resolution identified one unique IP, no CDN, and no confirmed origin candidates.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users should limit activity to non-sensitive review and obtain independent institutional confirmation before sharing documents, credentials, or funds. Any engagement should be deferred if authoritative education records or independently sourced institutional contacts cannot validate the site’s claims.
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 sriramkrishnasaradacollegeofeducation.org.
- The request stayed on sriramkrishnasaradacollegeofeducation.org. 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 hostgatorwebservers.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-09-30. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2017-05-25. Clear
- It is hosted on PUBLIC-DOMAIN-REGISTRY, from a server in IN. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com |
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| Hosting | PUBLIC-DOMAIN-REGISTRY - PDR, US |
| Country | IN |
| Server IP | 103.76.231.73 |
| Name servers | ns1.cp-in-16.hostgatorwebservers.com, ns2.cp-in-16.hostgatorwebservers.com |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-25 |
| Domain age | 4.89 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-09-30 |
| Archive first seen | 2017-05-25 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 14 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about sriramkrishnasaradacollegeofeducation.org 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.