Verdict
ssc.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 Staff Selection Commission (SSC) website for Government of India: provides exam notifications, schedules, registration (OTR), admit cards, results, FAQs and contact details for candidates. |
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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 | 2.5 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GlobalSign GCC R3 DV TLS CA 2020 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: 1 to 3 years (registration continuity).
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) portal of the Government of India, presenting examination notifications, calendars, syllabi, candidate registration, admit cards, results, frequently asked questions, and official contact information for public recruitment services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No scam, phishing, impersonation, or identity-contradiction signals were observed. The homepage and candidate-service pages show a coherent government recruitment purpose, with a login or registration function directed toward examination administration rather than commercial monetization. The site’s behavior was stable, with no untrusted form destination, hidden sensitive form, wallet activity, cloaking, or suspicious script behavior. Available external reputation checks also found no malicious or suspicious detections, supporting a low-risk assessment; however, the real-world operator identity remains likely rather than independently verified. The domain has an established global traffic footprint. Evidence:
- The homepage identifies the Staff Selection Commission and Government of India and provides examination, registration, admit-card, and result services.
- The registration interface contains one login/register form with no untrusted destination or hidden sensitive form detected.
- Domain registration: 2024-02-09; age 2.52 years.
- Global traffic rank: 9470.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The About Us, Background of Commission, Organisation Structure, Function of Commission, annual-report, citizen-charter, RTI, and contact sections provide substantial institutional context. The site presents itself as a public-sector recruitment service rather than a commercial or financial provider, so no commercial licensing claim or license number is presented. The available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate government website, but the on-site identity statements do not independently prove the real-world operator relationship. No broker-directory match or adverse third-party reputational signal was identified. Evidence:
- Hosting telemetry: AS4758, NICNET-VSNL-BOARDER-AP - National Informatics Centre, IN.
- TLS certificate: GlobalSign GCC R3 DV TLS CA 2020, domain validation (DV), valid to 2026-10-09T09:04:16+00:00.
- The homepage and About Us content identify the Staff Selection Commission and Government of India and expose organisational and public-information sections.
- External evaluation recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and no blacklist result.
What to Verify Next
Before credential submission, the official domain should be independently confirmed through a government directory, an SSC communication obtained from an established official channel, or another offline-confirmed government source. Contact details should likewise be cross-checked through an independently sourced SSC channel, and any request for payment should be assessed against the applicable official notice and standard payment-protection controls. Evidence:
- The homepage provides official institutional branding and candidate-service navigation suitable for comparison with independently obtained SSC communications.
- The site contains a login or registration function, making independent confirmation of the service destination appropriate before credential entry.
- The site provides a contact section that can be compared with contact details obtained through an independent government source.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with evidence converging on an established public-service website and no observed contradiction indicators. Legitimacy is apparent and evidence-consistent, while independent verification of the real-world operator remains incomplete.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single origin address, with no CDN or WAF identified. Its hosting is associated with AS4758 and the National Informatics Centre in India; this infrastructure context is a mitigating consistency signal, but infrastructure alone does not establish legitimacy. Evidence:
- Resolved infrastructure: 1 unique IP, 0 edge IPs, and 1 likely origin IP.
- CDN status: no CDN detected; trusted CDN status false.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary public-service use is proportionate to the assessed posture, while independent confirmation of official identity should precede credential or payment interactions and standard data-protection and payment safeguards should be retained.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-17 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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 73/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 74% |
- Identity verified on page
- Trusted social count=1
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 ssc.gov.in.
- The request stayed on ssc.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 2027-02-09. Noted
- It is hosted on NICNET-VSNL-BOARDER-AP, from a server in IN. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | National Informatics Centre |
|---|---|
| Hosting | NICNET-VSNL-BOARDER-AP - National Informatics Centre, IN |
| Country | IN |
| Server IP | 103.195.217.13 |
| Name servers | ns7.nic.in, ns1.nic.in, ns10.nic.in, ns2.nic.in |
| SSL issuer | GlobalSign GCC R3 DV TLS CA 2020 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-09 |
| Domain age | 2.52 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-02-09 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| 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 ssc.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.