Verdict
udistrital.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 website for Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas with navigation to institutional pages, academic programs, news, contact information and transparency resources. |
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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 | 28 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | 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).
- 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
This is the institutional website of Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, presenting a public higher-education model through university information, academic programs, admissions, research, student services, news, institutional contacts, and transparency resources. Its apparent purpose is to support academic administration, public information, and engagement with students, staff, researchers, and prospective applicants rather than to sell investments or financial products.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage identifies the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas and provides coherent navigation to institutional history, leadership, faculties, academic programs, admissions, research, campus services, news, contact information, and transparency materials. The content model is consistent with a public university, with no observed phishing forms, wallet-connect activity, cryptocurrency content, deceptive commercial offer, brand-impersonation indicator, or other high-risk abuse pattern. External reputation checks were clean, and the available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website; however, the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified.
- The homepage presents the university name and links to “Quiénes somos,” “Directivos,” “Historia,” “Misión - visión,” “Normatividad,” faculties, programs, admissions, research, and student services.
- The page analysis recorded no red flags, no suspected brand impersonation, no login form, no hidden forms, and no untrusted form destination.
- Domain registration records show a creation date of 1998-07-02 and an age of 28.13 years; the registrar is www.registrocolombia.co.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious findings, 0 suspicious findings, and no confirmed blacklist or phishing result.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The legal and institutional presentation is substantial for an academic website: the homepage links to institutional information, governance, policies, normativity, organizational structure, transparency indices, and public-facing contact resources. No financial or commercial licensing claim or license number is presented in the supplied content, which is a disclosure point to clarify only if a proposed interaction involves regulated services; the site's stated education model does not itself indicate such an activity. A separate broker-reputation cross-check produced no match, but that result is contextual and is not a regulatory determination. The site therefore appears institutionally coherent, while independent confirmation of the operator's real-world identity is still appropriate.
- The homepage includes “Información institucional,” “Organigrama,” “Modelo de operación,” “Políticas Institucionales,” “Normatividad,” and “Índices de transparencia.”
- The site presents academic programs, admissions, research, campus facilities, libraries, laboratories, and student-support services rather than an investment or trading proposition.
- The site's transport encryption uses a DV TLS certificate issued by YR1, valid through 2026-10-25.
- The site's hosting infrastructure is recorded as AS19429 - ETB - Colombia, CO, with the domain resolving in Colombia.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an institution or enterprise should independently confirm the university's identity through an official public education or government directory and ensure that the relevant contact and admissions channels correspond to that independently confirmed institution. For tuition, application fees, or other payments, the applicable payment protections, receipts, refund terms, and beneficiary details should be checked through an independently sourced institutional channel. Any activity that would imply financial regulation should also be matched against the appropriate Colombian regulatory or licensing register.
- The site publishes a national telephone line, a directory, institutional contacts, admissions navigation, and transparency resources.
- The homepage exposes separate sections for academic services, institutional information, and public participation.
- No sensitive form, password-external form, wallet provider, or wallet-drainer behavior was detected during the observed interactions.
Summary Verdict
The website presents a high-trust, low-risk posture and the available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate public-university site. No scam, phishing, impersonation, or identity-conflict indicators were observed, but the operator's real-world identity is not independently verified by the available evidence.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves through AS19429 - ETB - Colombia, CO, with one identified address and no detected CDN edge layer or separate WAF-delivered edge infrastructure. This is a straightforward hosting posture and should be treated as infrastructure context rather than proof of legitimacy.
- Hosting provider: AS19429 - ETB - Colombia, CO.
- ASN: AS19429.
- Country: CO; registry: LACNIC.
- The transport certificate is DV, issued by YR1, with validity ending 2026-10-25.
Closing Assessment
Routine informational use is proportionate to the assessed posture; before submitting credentials or making payments, ordinary independent checks of institutional identity, applicable terms, and payment protections should be completed.
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 udistrital.edu.co.
- The request stayed on udistrital.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 co.uk, across 6 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2029-12-31. Clear
- It is hosted on AS19429, from a server in CO. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | www.registrocolombia.co |
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| Hosting | AS19429 - ETB - Colombia, CO |
| Country | CO |
| Server IP | 200.69.103.83 |
| Name servers | NS-1688.AWSDNS-19.CO.UK, NS2.UDISTRITAL.EDU.CO, NS-792.AWSDNS-35.NET, NS-1465.AWSDNS-55.ORG, NS1.UDISTRITAL.EDU.CO, NS-494.AWSDNS-61.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-25 |
| Domain age | 28.13 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2029-12-31 |
| 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 udistrital.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.