Verdict
timesbrasil.com.br 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 | Times Brasil is a Portuguese-language Brazilian news and financial information portal presented as an exclusive CNBC licensee. The page contains broad editorial coverage, market indicators, financial education, newsletters, contact details, privacy information, and corporate ownership disclosure. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- 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 | 4.5 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WR3 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
Times Brasil is a Portuguese-language Brazilian news and financial-information portal presented as an exclusive CNBC licensee. It offers coverage of politics, economics, markets, investments, cryptocurrency news, business, technology, education, and general-interest topics, supported by advertising, sponsored content, newsletters, and potential commercial partnerships.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed across the supplied evidence: there were no phishing, impersonation, blacklist, malicious-reputation, or deceptive financial-promotion indicators. The homepage presents substantial editorial content and a coherent news-publishing model rather than soliciting deposits or promising investment returns. Its published market data, financial education, and newsletter functionality are consistent with an informational publisher.
- The homepage contains extensive news, market, business, investment, and educational content with no identified red flags.
- Domain registration dates to 2022-02-03, with an observed age of 4.5 years.
- External reputation screening recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and 0 abuse reports.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site provides contact, privacy, and corporate-identity information and identifies itself as an exclusive CNBC licensee. The supplied evidence does not identify a financial-services license or registration number; this is a transparency item for regulatory verification, not evidence of fraud. The site's apparent publishing model does not itself indicate deposit-taking or investment-management activity.
- The homepage identifies the publication as “Times Brasil - Licenciado Exclusivo CNBC” and includes financial news, indicators, investment coverage, and financial education.
- The site includes contact details, privacy information, and corporate ownership disclosure.
- TLS is issued by WR3 at DV validation level and is valid through 2026-10-14.
What to Verify Next
Independent confirmation of the claimed CNBC authorization and any company or publishing registrations applicable to the intended engagement would complete the legal-identity review. For paid subscriptions, sponsorships, or commercial partnerships, counterparties should confirm contractual details through independently sourced business contacts.
- The homepage contains the CNBC licensing claim requiring independent authorization confirmation.
- The site's business model description identifies advertising, sponsored content, newsletters, subscriptions, and commercial partnerships as possible revenue channels.
- The site has one newsletter-email form and no identified sensitive credential form.
Summary Verdict
Times Brasil presents as a legitimate, established, trustworthy publication with a high-trust posture and no observed scam or impersonation contradictions. Normal interaction, including account login and standard use, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, while the observed edge address was 34.111.64.192 on AS396982, operated by Google Cloud Platform. The origin server was not observable; this protective architecture mitigates direct exposure but is not, by itself, proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users and commercial counterparties may engage normally, applying standard organizational verification procedures proportionate to the value and nature of the relationship.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-02 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 | 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 timesbrasil.com.br.
- The request stayed on timesbrasil.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 2030-02-03. Clear
- It is hosted on GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM - Google LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 34.111.64.192 |
| Name servers | john.ns.cloudflare.com, nadia.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | WR3 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-14 |
| Domain age | 4.5 years |
| Domain expiry | 2030-02-03 |
| 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 timesbrasil.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.