Critical risk detected
13 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. Our security stack flagged multiple threat indicators on this website. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Is bhabanagarafoundation.org legit or a scam?
Real cultural NGO domain abused to host credential-harvesting phishing pages, flagged by 13 antivirus engines including BitDefender and CyRadar.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page presents itself as Bhabanagara Foundation, a UNESCO-accredited Bangladeshi NGO focused on cultural heritage with newspaper coverage and active registration since 2011. However, 13 antivirus engines explicitly flag the site as phishing, and concrete phishing URLs such as /include/WEBMAIL1.html have been observed on the domain. Independent reports from PhishDestroy and PCrisk confirm active credential theft attempts impersonating the charity. The domain itself is over five years old with valid SSL and no redirects, yet the presence of these malicious subpages overrides the legitimate surface content. Our analysis therefore treats the site as compromised and unsafe for any interaction.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for bhabanagarafoundation.org, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered January 2, 2021 via Name.com, Inc.; ~1968 days old (5.4 years) as of May 2026; resolves to 103.65.139.82 in Dhaka, BD
- Hosts journal.bhabanagarafoundation.org publishing BHĀBANAGARA: International Journal of Bengal Studies (peer-reviewed, multiple issues 2024-2025)
- Flagged May 2026 by 13/13 VirusTotal vendors, 14/91 PCrisk engines, Hagezi/PhishingArmy blocklists, and PhishDestroy as credential theft/phishing site
- Specific phishing URLs observed: /include/WEBMAIL1.html, /parolifts/MayRFP.php, /johnpardeyarchitects/RequestTender.php
- Linked to real Vabnagar Foundation (Bangladesh NGO, UNESCO ICH accredited, Facebook page with 1300+ likes, newspaper coverage in The Daily Star)
- Page title matches exactly: 'Bhabanagara Foundation | Toward hope and light'
- PhishDestroyopen
"PhishDestroy identifies bhabanagarafoundation[.]org as a HIGH-RISK credential theft domain actively impersonating a charitable organization to harvest user login details and personal information."
- PCriskopen
"Category: Phishing ... 14 / 91 engines flagged ... 5 / 100 Trust Score"
- Phishstatsopen
"URL: http:// bhabanagarafoundation.org /include/WEBMAIL1.html?mail=anVnZW5kc2NodXR6QGluZm8uZ214Lm5ldA="
- UNESCOopen
"Vabnagar Foundation . Bangladesh Contact: +880 155 181 4078. Adresse postale: House 86 Road 7 Block C Monsurabad R/A Mohammadpur 1207 Dhaka"
- The Daily Staropen
"Bhabanagara Foundation has been reviving the essence of Charyapada for the last five years at Suhrawardy Udyan. Bauls from different districts of Bangladesh ..."
Registered under The Societies Registration Act 1860 in 2011; UNESCO accredited NGO with Dhaka address; publishes journal and organizes cultural events
PhishDestroy reports the domain as actively used for credential harvesting by impersonating the charitable organization. PCrisk lists it under phishing with a low trust score and multiple engine detections. Phishstats shows specific malicious URLs hosted on the domain such as fake webmail login pages. Positive mentions confirm the underlying NGO is real and UNESCO-accredited with local news coverage.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
Phishing site — act fast
This page shows signs of attempting to steal credentials or impersonate a trusted brand.
- Do not interact with bhabanagarafoundation.org
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- If you already typed your password — change it now
Change the password on the legitimate site and anywhere else you re-used it. Turn on two-factor authentication. Review recent account activity.
- OpenReport the phishing URL
APWG (Anti-Phishing Working Group) accepts phishing reports at reportphishing@apwg.org. Google Safe Browsing reports help protect other users.
- OpenGet help on the forum
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review flags bhabanagarafoundation.org as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — bhabanagarafoundation.org scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. bhabanagarafoundation.org presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 72 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- bhabanagarafoundation.org is 5.4 years old, registered on 1/2/2021 through Name.com, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 14 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged bhabanagarafoundation.org as malicious or suspicious (13 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. bhabanagarafoundation.org is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- bhabanagarafoundation.org resolves to an IP operated by IITBD in BD (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
Final Verdict
The site belongs to a real Bangladeshi cultural NGO but hosts phishing pages designed to steal login credentials. Multiple engines flag it as malicious with specific phishing URLs observed. Avoid entering any personal information and do not click links from this domain.
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