Verdict
unifei.edu.br 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 site of Universidade Federal de Itajubá (UNIFEI) containing institutional pages, academic program information, news, events calendar, administrative contacts and student services 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 | 25 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018 | 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 website presents itself as the institutional website of Universidade Federal de Itajubá (UNIFEI), offering university information, academic programmes, research and extension resources, campus services, administrative notices, news, events, and student support rather than direct commercial products.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed: there is no confirmed phishing, impersonation, or malicious finding, and the site’s content is consistent with a public university. One external reputation check produced an unconfirmed suspicious signal, but it was not corroborated by malicious detections or the page-level, behavioural, and institutional evidence; it is therefore treated as a limited reputational anomaly rather than evidence of a scam. The long-established registration and stable institutional content further support the conclusion that the website is apparently legitimate, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
- The homepage identifies “Universidade Federal de Itajubá – UNIFEI” and provides institutional navigation covering academic programmes, research, campuses, regulations, services, and student resources.
- The site’s behavioural inspection recorded no login form, hidden sensitive form, external password form, wallet connection, wallet-drainer activity, cloaking, or suspicious inline scripts.
- Domain registration: 2002-01-10; age 24.61 years.
- External checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 1 suspicious result, and no confirmed phishing, impersonation, or malicious finding.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The displayed business model is informational and educational, not a financial or other regulated commercial service. Institutional, academic, administrative, transparency, procurement, and contact sections provide substantial on-page context, but the available evidence does not independently verify the real-world operator identity. No regulated-service licence or licence number is claimed in the supplied content; for this stated university purpose, that is a verification matter rather than an indication of fraud. Any separate service involving payments, admissions fees, or credential submission should be assessed against the relevant institutional and regulatory requirements.
- The institutional pages include “Atos Normativos,” “Transparência,” “Licitações,” calendars, councils, statutes, campus information, and administrative services.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018 certificate with OV validation, valid to 2026-09-26T11:26:12+00:00.
- Hosting is identified as AS1916 – Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa, BR, consistent with the site’s Brazilian academic presentation.
- The contact and administrative sections provide university-related communication routes rather than a commercial trading or investment proposition.
What to Verify Next
Before any credential or payment interaction, independently confirm that the relevant university service is reached through the institution’s established public channels and that the applicable admissions, fee, refund, or payment-protection terms are authentic. Where a transaction or account workflow is encountered, confirm the responsible institutional department through an independently sourced contact route and ensure that the destination remains within the expected institutional domain.
- The site exposes dedicated administrative, student-service, admissions, notices, and contact areas suitable for cross-checking a specific university process.
- The homepage provides access to institutional information, regulations, calendars, and campus pages that can be compared with independently obtained university details.
- No sensitive form or login workflow was present in the inspected page content, so any later credential or payment page should be treated as a separate interaction requiring contextual confirmation.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website operated for a public-university informational purpose. The overall posture is high trust and low risk for that stated use, with the remaining qualification that the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to a single identified hosting address on AS1916, Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa, in Brazil; no CDN was detected and the origin-facing hosting posture is directly identifiable. The OV certificate issued by GlobalSign provides a meaningful transport-integrity control, while neither hosting infrastructure nor TLS independently proves institutional ownership.
Closing Assessment
Routine informational browsing is proportionate; any credential or payment interaction should follow ordinary independent checks of institutional identity, applicable terms, and payment protections.
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 unifei.edu.br.
- The request stayed on unifei.edu.br. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by awsdns-49.com, across 4 name servers. Noted
- It is hosted on AS1916, from a server in BR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AS1916 - Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa, BR |
| Country | BR |
| Server IP | 200.131.128.34 |
| Name servers | ns-399.awsdns-49.com, ns-853.awsdns-42.net, ns-1735.awsdns-24.co.uk, ns-1038.awsdns-01.org |
| SSL issuer | GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-26 |
| Domain age | 24.61 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| 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 unifei.edu.br 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.