Verdict
uniandes.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 website of Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) with news, admissions information, academic offerings, research, events, and contact details. Appears legitimate and informational. |
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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 | 31 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 19975000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | 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
This website presents itself as the official online presence of Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, offering institutional information on academic programs, admissions, research, news, events, student services, and university contacts. Its apparent purpose is informational and educational, supported by tuition, public funding, grants, and institutional services rather than direct commercial e-commerce.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage identifies the institution as Universidad de los Andes – Colombia and provides a coherent university information architecture covering history, governance, faculties, admissions, research, and student services. The site presents no observed phishing form, sensitive credential-collection mechanism, wallet functionality, or brand-impersonation indicator. External reputation checks were clean, with no malicious or suspicious detections, no blacklist finding, and no reported abuse associated with the assessed infrastructure. The available evidence therefore supports an apparently legitimate, established institutional website, while not independently proving the real-world operator’s identity.
- The homepage is titled “Universidad de los Andes – Colombia – Sitio oficial” and contains institutional navigation for the university, academic offerings, admissions, research, and student services.
- The homepage has no login form, hidden form, sensitive form, or untrusted form destination; behavioral testing recorded zero wallet-connect, wallet-sensitive, or wallet-drainer runs.
- The domain was registered in 1996 and is approximately 30.65 years old through www.registrocolombia.co.
- The site’s archive contains 5,000 snapshots spanning 1997–2023, covering 27 tracked years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The website’s institutional pages provide substantive academic and governance content, including university history, mission, rectorate, government, faculties, admissions, and research. No financial-service, investment, or other regulated-commercial offering was identified, and no regulator, license number, or commercial authorization is presented on the reviewed pages; this is a limited disclosure point rather than evidence of scam or impersonation in the context of an academic website. The site’s apparent institutional identity is supported by its long continuity, established page authority, clean external reputation, and mainstream transport security, but the operator’s real-world identity remains only likely rather than independently verified.
- The homepage lists pregraduate, postgraduate, virtual postgraduate, continuing-education, executive-education, and MOOC offerings, alongside admissions and research sections.
- The site is served through AS13335 (Cloudflare); the TLS certificate is issued by WE1 with DV validation and is valid to 2026-11-07.
- The registrar shown for the domain is www.registrocolombia.co, with an expiration date of 2028-12-31.
- The page-authority assessment places the site in a high authority band, and the site links to LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, X, TikTok, and YouTube.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an organization should independently confirm the university’s official contact and admissions channels through a trusted offline or previously established institutional route. Any tuition, application, or service payment should be made only through payment paths confirmed by the university and supported by ordinary payment-protection and refund procedures. Where a specific academic program requires formal authorization, its status should be checked with the relevant Colombian education authority.
- The homepage includes admissions notices, financial-support navigation, and institutional contact information suitable for cross-checking through an independent channel.
- The site’s business model is described as educational and institutional, with no direct commercial e-commerce flow identified on the reviewed page.
- The reviewed content includes dedicated sections for academic offerings, admissions, research, and institutional services, enabling program-specific verification.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate university website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture. No scam, phishing, impersonation, or conflicting-identity indicators were identified, although the available evidence does not independently prove the real-world operator identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website benefits from Amazon CDN/WAF protection, with the observed traffic terminating at a trusted edge service rather than exposing a direct application host. This is a mitigating infrastructure characteristic, not proof of institutional legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal informational use is proportionate to the evidence; credential or payment activity should proceed only after the institution’s identity, official channel, and applicable payment protections have been confirmed independently.
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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 80/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 80% |
- Identity verified on page
- Trusted social count=4
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 uniandes.edu.co.
- The request stayed on uniandes.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 azure.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-12-31. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1997-06-05. 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::6812:1e5a |
| Name servers | DSIT-SAZ020.EASTUS.CLOUDAPP.AZURE.COM, AYAX.UNIANDES.EDU.CO |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-07 |
| Domain age | 30.65 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-12-31 |
| Archive first seen | 1997-06-05 |
| 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 uniandes.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.