Verdict
udea.edu.co 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-looking university landing page (Universidad de Antioquia) with navigation items for students, staff, news, events, programs, contact details and institutional notices. Contains instructions about enabling JavaScript and lists contact emails, phone lines, and institutional identifiers. |
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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 | 29 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 1997442 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 1997.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is an institutional university portal for Universidad de Antioquia, presenting academic programs, admissions and enrollment services, research, news, events, student and staff resources, administrative information, transparency materials, and public contact channels. Its apparent purpose is to provide official informational and account-related services for a public higher-education institution rather than to conduct a commercial or investment business.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage identifies Universidad de Antioquia and provides institution-specific navigation, academic services, administrative functions, contact details, and institutional notices consistent with a university portal. A behavioral capture detected hidden form elements, but the page analysis found no sensitive form, no login form, no externally submitted password form, and no untrusted destination; this is therefore treated as an implementation artifact rather than evidence of credential harvesting. An automated similarity heuristic also associated the page with ea.com, but the observed content did not support brand impersonation. The available reputation checks found no malicious or suspicious detections, no blacklist hit, and no abuse reports, supporting a low scam and impersonation concern.
- The homepage presents “Universidad de Antioquia,” academic programs, admissions, student and staff services, news, events, transparency, and institutional contact functions.
- Behavioral inspection recorded hidden forms in 2 runs, while also recording 0 password-external forms, 0 wallet-drainer runs, 0 clipboard-hijack runs, and no cloaking.
- The domain was registered in 2000 and is 26.55 years old; the archive contains 442 snapshots spanning 1997–2025, with 29 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s apparent institutional purpose and on-page identity are consistent with a university information portal, but the real-world operator identity is not independently verified by the available evidence. The pages provide institutional identifiers, transparency and citizen-service functions, academic information, and contact channels; they do not present a commercial financial-service licensing claim or license number. For this informational university use case, that is a disclosure and verification consideration rather than evidence of deception. The site uses an organization-validated certificate associated with UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA, which is a positive infrastructure-to-identity consistency signal, although it does not independently prove control of the institution.
- The domain registrar is www.registrocolombia.co, with an expiration date of 2029-12-31.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018, uses OV validation, identifies UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA, and is valid through 2026-10-31.
- The homepage includes “Transparencia,” “Atención a la ciudadanía,” institutional notices, and published telephone and email contact channels.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an organization should independently confirm that the domain is the university’s official digital channel through an established institutional directory or an offline contact route. Where a transaction involves tuition, donations, or other payments, the institution’s official payment instructions, recipient identity, refund or cancellation terms, and payment-protection mechanisms should be checked through the university’s independently confirmed channels. Any login should be reached from the verified institutional portal rather than from an unsolicited message or third-party redirect.
- The homepage provides institutional navigation for students, professors, employees, alumni, and retirees, including account access and recovery functions.
- The site presents admissions, donations, administrative services, and citizen-attention content, creating distinct transaction and account-verification points for independent confirmation.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate university website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture. The assessment does not independently prove the real-world operator’s identity, so ordinary institutional and payment-channel validation remains appropriate before sensitive interactions.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Cloudflare’s CDN/WAF, and the observed addresses are Cloudflare edge servers rather than the origin infrastructure. This reduces direct exposure of the origin and is a mitigating control, but it is not, by itself, proof of legitimacy.
- Hosted on AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- Observed Cloudflare edge IPs are 104.18.1.29 and 104.18.0.29; the origin server IP was not observable in the analysis.
Closing Assessment
Normal informational use is proportionate to the available evidence; account or payment activity should proceed through independently confirmed institutional channels with standard credential, recipient, and payment-protection checks.
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 | 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 udea.edu.co.
- The request stayed on udea.edu.co. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under www.registrocolombia.co. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by edu.co, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2029-12-31. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1997-05-05. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | www.registrocolombia.co |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700::6812:1d |
| Name servers | BACHUE.UDEA.EDU.CO, SANHA.UDEA.EDU.CO |
| SSL issuer | GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-31 |
| Domain age | 29.28 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2029-12-31 |
| Archive first seen | 1997-05-05 |
| Archive snapshots | 442 |
| 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 udea.edu.co 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.