Verdict
uit.ac.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 university website for Université Ibn Tofaïl de Kénitra: provides contact details, faculties, centres, admissions and news/events. Content in French/Arabic with academic and administrative information. |
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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 | 11 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2012826 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | 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 2012.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is the institutional portal of Université Ibn Tofaïl de Kénitra, presenting university leadership, faculties, academic programs, admissions, research activities, student services, events, and contact information in French and Arabic. Its apparent purpose is public-sector academic information delivery and administrative service provision rather than direct commercial activity.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No phishing, malware, blacklist, or confirmed impersonation contradictions were observed. The homepage consistently identifies Université Ibn Tofaïl and provides institution-specific academic and administrative content, while the absence of login forms, hidden forms, wallet functionality, and sensitive external submissions is consistent with a low-abuse informational site. A domain-similarity signal involving a short unrelated name did not establish brand impersonation and is outweighed by the university-specific content and coherent institutional presentation.
- The homepage identifies “Université Ibn Tofaïl de Kénitra” and lists faculties, research centres, admissions, recruitment, governance, and student services.
- Page behavior recorded no login form, hidden form, password submission, wallet connection, wallet-drainer activity, or clipboard hijacking.
- The domain history contains 826 archive snapshots spanning 2012–2026, with 15 years tracked and a maximum observed gap of 1 year.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and no blacklist or phishing hit.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents a clear academic identity through its institutional pages, including university leadership, council structures, faculties, centres, and contact information. Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate university website, but the real-world operator identity is not independently verified by this assessment. A regulatory or licensing status is not established, and the site does not present a license number or regulated-financial-service claim; this is a limited disclosure point relevant to administrative verification rather than evidence of fraud. The domain is registered through ITISSALAT AL-MAGHRIB, with the registration record naming UNIVERSITE IBN TOFAIL as the owner. The transport layer uses a valid domain-validated certificate issued by YR2.
- The institutional presentation pages identify university leadership, faculties, centres, and administrative structures, while the site’s business model is informational and publicly funded rather than payment-led.
- The domain was registered on 2015-12-02 and is approximately 10.7 years old; the registrar is ITISSALAT AL-MAGHRIB.
- Hosting resolves to AS24940, HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE.
- The TLS certificate is DV, issued by YR2, and valid to 2026-09-17.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions associated with admissions or other administrative services, an institution or enterprise should independently confirm the relevant university contact route and ensure that any payment request corresponds to an official admissions or fee process. Where a transaction involves an external service, the applicable merchant identity, refund terms, and payment-protection arrangements should be checked separately from the website’s own claims.
- Admissions and pre-registration content provides the operational context for any future application or fee-related interaction.
- The contact and institutional-information pages provide the channels that can be cross-checked through an independent route.
- The site’s stated functions cover academic information, research, events, recruitment, and administration rather than a general commercial marketplace.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with strong convergence between the site’s institutional purpose, sustained historical continuity, clean external reputation, and stable technical presentation. Legitimacy is apparent and evidence-consistent, although operator identity remains independently unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by a CDN/WAF layer, and the observed address was an edge address rather than an exposed origin candidate. This reduces direct infrastructure exposure and is a positive mitigating control, but protective network infrastructure is not, by itself, proof of institutional ownership.
- The observed edge address was 157.90.94.241; no likely origin address was identified in the infrastructure analysis.
Closing Assessment
Routine informational use is proportionate to the assessed posture; independent confirmation of official channels, applicable terms, and payment protections should precede any credential or payment interaction.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-10 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 uit.ac.ma.
- The request stayed on uit.ac.ma. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under ITISSALAT AL-MAGHRIB. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ac.ma, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-12-02. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2012-08-05. Clear
- It is hosted on HETZNER-AS, from a server in DE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | ITISSALAT AL-MAGHRIB |
|---|---|
| Hosting | HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE |
| Country | DE |
| Server IP | 157.90.94.241 |
| Name servers | dns.uit.ac.ma, ns.marwan.ma |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-17 |
| Domain age | 10.70 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-12-02 |
| Archive first seen | 2012-08-05 |
| Archive snapshots | 826 |
| 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 uit.ac.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.