Verdict
uca.ma 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 web portal for Université Cadi Ayyad. Provides institutional information, news, academic programs, research centers, international mobility, events, and contact details in French, Arabic and English. |
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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 | 15 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20153774 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GEANT TLS RSA 1 | 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 2015.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is a multilingual institutional portal for Université Cadi Ayyad, presenting university governance, academic programmes, admissions information, research structures, international mobility, news, events, and campus contact information in French, Arabic, and English. Its apparent purpose is to provide public-facing educational and institutional information rather than to operate a commercial transaction platform.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The site content consistently identifies Université Cadi Ayyad and describes a public-university operating model, with no phishing forms, cryptocurrency functionality, aggressive monetisation, malicious redirects, or other evident abuse patterns. An automated brand-similarity signal associated the page with “ca.gov,” but the available page content does not support an impersonation finding: the title, institutional navigation, academic material, research information, and university-specific subject organisation consistently support the stated university context. The domain also has an established and historically continuous presence, while external reputation checks recorded no malicious or suspicious detections and no reported abuse activity. The available evidence is therefore consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
- The homepage and institutional pages identify the portal as Université Cadi Ayyad and provide university governance, academic, research, mobility, and contact content.
- Domain registration telemetry records a creation date of 2011-09-20 and an age of 14.9 years.
- Web-archive telemetry records 3,774 snapshots spanning 2015-10-27 through 2025-02-17, covering 11 tracked years.
- External reputation telemetry records 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, 0 blacklist hits, and 0 abuse reports.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The legal and identity presentation is consistent with an academic institution: the site includes university presentation material, presidential and governance information, organisational directories, academic regulations, research structures, and institutional contact information. No financial-services, investment, or other regulated commercial activity is presented, and no licence claim or licence number is indicated; this is a transparency point for institutional verification rather than evidence of deception. The site’s established page content, five linked social channels, clean external reputation, and university-associated technical identity provide converging legitimacy support, but they do not independently prove the legal operator or any specific institutional authority.
- The “Université,” “Présidence,” “Organigramme & Annuaire,” and “Instances de Gouvernance” pages present institutional identity and governance information.
- The “Formation,” “Recherche,” “Mobilité internationale,” and “Contactez-nous” sections describe academic and public-university functions rather than a regulated financial business.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a GEANT TLS RSA 1 certificate with OV validation, issued to Université Cadi Ayyad, valid through 2026-10-03.
- Hosting telemetry records AS30983, operated by CNRST (Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique), Morocco.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions connected with admissions, fees, or other services, an organisation should independently confirm the university’s official contact channels and the relevant admissions or payment process through a separately sourced institutional directory or offline contact route. Any payment should use a protected method with clear transaction recourse, and the applicable institutional terms, refund conditions, and privacy notices should be reviewed on the relevant pages before submission. Where a formal authorisation or registration is expected for a particular service, that status should be checked with the competent Moroccan authority rather than inferred solely from the website.
- The admissions and “S’inscrire” pages identify the points at which applications or submissions may occur.
- The “Contactez-nous” and international-mobility contact pages provide the site’s stated institutional communication routes.
- The academic regulations and policy sections provide the relevant framework for reviewing service conditions and institutional procedures.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with strong evidence of an established, apparently legitimate university information portal and no observed scam, phishing, blacklist, or impersonation contradiction. Identity confidence is substantial but not conclusive, so the site should be regarded as evidence-consistent with the stated institution rather than as independently proven to be operated by it.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is hosted directly within the CNRST-associated environment in Morocco on AS30983, with no CDN or WAF identified and two likely origin addresses resolved. This direct institutional hosting posture is technically coherent with the site’s academic purpose, while the absence of an identified CDN means that infrastructure protection should be treated as limited mitigation rather than proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal informational use is proportionate to the available evidence; credential or payment actions should proceed only after the ordinary independent identity, transaction-protection, and service-condition checks described above.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-11 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 | 80/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 80% |
- Trusted social count=5
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 uca.ma.
- The request stayed on uca.ma. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under WANA CORPORATE. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by srv2-uca.ma, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-09-20. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2015-10-27. Clear
- It is hosted on CNRST (Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique), from a server in MA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | WANA CORPORATE |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CNRST (Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique) - CNRST (Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique), MA |
| Country | MA |
| Server IP | 196.200.176.31 |
| Name servers | srv2-uca.ma, srv1-uca.ma |
| SSL issuer | GEANT TLS RSA 1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-03 |
| Domain age | 14.90 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-09-20 |
| Archive first seen | 2015-10-27 |
| Archive snapshots | 3774 |
| 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 uca.ma 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.