Verdict
uaeh.edu.mx 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 university site (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo) with institutional information about programs, research, cultural offerings, news and contact details. No forms requesting credentials or financial transactions detected in the provided HTML. |
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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 | 22 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20045000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018 | 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
This is the institutional website of the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH), presenting information about academic programmes, research, admissions, news, cultural and sporting activities, university services, and campus contacts. Its apparent purpose is public-facing educational and institutional communication rather than online investment, trading, or other transactional solicitation.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed: the reviewed content contains no phishing indicators, brand-impersonation pattern, malicious reputation finding, or financial solicitation. Dynamic testing did observe hidden forms on two runs, but no password-external forms, wallet activity, clipboard manipulation, or cloaking was detected; in the context of the university content and the absence of sensitive forms in the page capture, this is a technical anomaly rather than evidence of impersonation. The long registration continuity and consistent historical presence further support provenance consistent with an established site, although the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified.
- Homepage content identifies the institution and provides university information, with no login form or sensitive submission form detected.
- Dynamic testing recorded hidden forms on 2 runs; password-external forms: 0, wallet-connect runs: 0, wallet-drainer runs: 0, and cloaking classification: none.
- Domain registered 2004-02-27 (~22.47 years old).
- Web archive: 5,000 snapshots spanning 2004-11-18 to 2025-04-09 (22 years tracked).
Regulatory Verification Notes
The legal and institutional material is consistent with an academic organisation, and the site does not present itself as a commercial financial service requiring a financial-services licence. No licence number or regulatory authorisation was identified in the reviewed content; this is a disclosure point for institutional or procurement verification, not evidence of a scam. The on-site identity claims align with the organisation named in the transport certificate, while independent connection of the website to the real-world operator is not established by the supplied evidence. The registrar, certificate, and hosting records provide additional technical continuity signals.
- Domain registrar: AKKY ONLINE SOLUTIONS, S.A. DE C.V.; recorded owner: UAEH; expiry date: 2027-02-26.
- Hosted on AS8151 (AS8151 - UNINET, MX).
- TLS certificate issued by GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018, validation level OV, subject organisation Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH), valid to 2026-11-25T17:56:16+00:00.
- The reviewed institutional and admissions-related content contains no stated financial-services licence number or regulatory authorisation.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions associated with admissions, tuition, events, or university services, an organisation should independently confirm the institution and the relevant service through an authoritative university directory or other independently sourced institutional record. Payment activity should be limited to channels whose merchant identity, payment-protection terms, refund conditions, and applicable privacy notices are independently confirmed. Official contact channels should also be cross-checked through an offline or independently obtained institutional source rather than relying solely on a page reached through an unsolicited message.
- The site map includes admissions or convocatorias, contact, and campus-information areas that can be used to identify the specific service involved.
- The supplied identity assessment remains unverified for an independent real-world operator connection.
- No on-page commercial investment offer was identified, so any request for payment or credentials outside the normal university-service context would warrant separate confirmation.
Summary Verdict
The available evidence supports a high-trust, low-risk posture and is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate institutional website. No scam, phishing, impersonation, or other identity contradiction was observed, but the available evidence does not independently prove the real-world operator identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site has no detected CDN or WAF layer and resolves to two likely origin addresses, so it does not benefit from the additional exposure-mitigation typically provided by edge infrastructure. This is an infrastructure characteristic rather than a legitimacy finding; the transport layer nevertheless uses an organisation-validated certificate.
Closing Assessment
Normal informational use is proportionate; credential or payment activity should follow the ordinary independent merchant-identity, service-policy, and payment-protection checks appropriate to the specific university service.
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 uaeh.edu.mx.
- The request stayed on uaeh.edu.mx. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under AKKY ONLINE SOLUTIONS, S.A. DE C.V.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by 44.229. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-02-26. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2004-11-18. Clear
- It is hosted on AS8151, from a server in MX. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | AKKY ONLINE SOLUTIONS, S.A. DE C.V. |
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| Hosting | AS8151 - UNINET, MX |
| Country | MX |
| Server IP | 200.34.44.252 |
| Name servers | telecom.uaeh.edu.mx 200.34.44.227, 200.34.44.229 |
| SSL issuer | GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-25 |
| Domain age | 22.47 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-02-26 |
| Archive first seen | 2004-11-18 |
| Archive snapshots | 5000 |
| 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 uaeh.edu.mx 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.