SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

Security Review

Is pmlsdbs.ac.in legit or a scam?

This looks safe to use.

Official site for PML SD Business School, a real AICTE-approved PGDM college in Chandigarh with 6.9-year-old domain and zero malicious flags.

Cross-checked against 9 independent sources — none raised a concern
pmlsdbs.ac.inScanned 1h ago
0/100
Trust score
0 = danger · 100 = safe
SAFE
Score breakdown
Heuristics 95·MT 85
Screenshot of pmlsdbs.ac.inSee the live page ↓
Positive signals (5)
Antivirus clearNot on major blacklistsDomain is 7 years oldEncrypted connectionClean server reputation
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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
7 years old
Registered Aug 28, 2019

Website Preview

Screenshot of pmlsdbs.ac.in
LIVE RENDER
pmlsdbs.ac.in

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.

Visual analysis

We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.

50
/ 100
Visual inspection

Visual similarities noted — cleared by the overall checks

Our vision model noted some visual similarity to a known brand, but the domain, security records, and reputation checks confirm this is the legitimate site — so this is shown for transparency, not as a red flag.

Visual similarity50/100

What our vision model saw

1 signal

Screenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render

Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
Analysis
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust85/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The domain pmlsdbs.ac.in belongs to PML SD Business School, an educational institution offering AICTE-approved PGDM programs. Our antivirus network returned zero detections across 92 engines and the hosting IP shows no abuse history. The domain was registered in 2019 through ERNET India and carries a valid GoDaddy SSL certificate. Independent web research confirms the site is listed on major education portals as the official page for this college, which is backed by the GGDSD College Society operating since 1973. No scam reports, complaints, or clone indicators appear in the evidence. The only minor note is that the screenshot capture was incomplete, likely due to a slow-loading JavaScript application, but this does not affect the legitimacy assessment.
Positive Signals
5
  • Domain registered 6.9 years ago through ERNET India, a government-recognized academic registrar.
  • Zero detections across 92 antivirus engines and clean IP reputation with no abuse reports.
  • Valid GoDaddy SSL certificate and no browser blocklist hits.
  • Listed as the official site on multiple education portals and backed by an established society since 1973.
  • Business registration confirmed as active under Indian Societies Registration Act.
The full analysis

Page Content

The page presents PML SD Business School as a management institute offering PGDM programs. It displays admissions information, faculty details, placement records, and institutional accreditations including AICTE approval. The site lists contact emails on its own domain and references the GGDSD College Society as the promoting body. No login forms, payment requests, or data-harvesting elements are present.

Infrastructure

The site is hosted on IP 68.178.230.6 with an abuse score of zero and no reported incidents. SSL is valid and issued by GoDaddy with 47 days remaining until expiry. Two internal redirects occur without crossing domains or using homoglyphs. External resources load from trusted CDNs and government education portals such as aicte.gov.in and nad.digitallocker.gov.in.

Domain History

The domain was registered on 2019-08-28 through ERNET India, giving it an age of 6.9 years. WHOIS privacy protection is enabled. The registrar is a government-recognized Indian registry commonly used by academic institutions.

Web Reputation

Our research found the domain listed as the official website on multiple education portals including Shiksha, CollegeDekho, and Careers360. The institution is described as established in 2020 under the GGDSD College Society, which has operated since 1973. No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions were located. Business registration records confirm the promoting society is active under the Societies Registration Act.

What this means for you

The site shows consistent signals of a legitimate educational institution. Visitors can safely browse program information and contact details without concern for malware or fraud.

AI Recommendation
The site is safe to visit for admissions information and program details. Use the contact information listed on the page for official inquiries.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for pmlsdbs.ac.in, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration
Active · India
Site traces back to an actively registered business.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
No scam reports found
No complaints, no negative coverage turned up in our sweep.
Key findings
5 headline facts from open-web research
  • PML SD Business School (pmlsdbs.ac.in) is a legitimate private management institute established in 2020 in Chandigarh, India.
  • The institution is promoted by the GGDSD College Society, a well-known educational society in Chandigarh that has been operating since 1973.
  • The school is approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and offers a two-year full-time PGDM program.
  • Multiple educational portals (Shiksha, CollegeDekho, Careers360) identify pmlsdbs.ac.in as the official website for admissions and institutional information.
  • The website provides information regarding admissions, courses, and contact details for the campus located in Sector 32-C, Chandigarh.
Business registration
Status: active · India

PML SD Business School is an educational institution promoted by the GGDSD College Society, which is registered under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860.

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for pmlsdbs.ac.in and didn't find scam reports or complaints. The evidence confirms this is the official site for PML SD Business School, an AICTE-approved PGDM college promoted by the GGDSD College Society operating since 1973.

Domain Timeline

  1. Aug 28, 2019
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 6.9 years old today.

  2. Jul 21, 2026
    Latest security review — Reviewed as safe

    This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.

pmlsdbs.ac.in has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.

Threat Detection

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious59Harmless92Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not queried
ESET-NOD32
Not queried
Avira
Not queried
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Not queried
Emsisoft
Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

Technical Details

The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.

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.

What We Found
Has a contact email on its own domain
Emails on site's domaininfo@pmlsdbs.ac.in
Phone numbers0172-4053232
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Contact details look reasonable
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Contact email on the site's own domain (info@pmlsdbs.ac.in).
  • Phone number listed (0172-4053232).

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age7 years old
RegistrarERNET India
RegisteredAug 28, 2019
ExpiresAug 28, 2029
Owner privacyHidden
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.2
IssuerGoDaddy.com · GoDaddy TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1
ExpiresSep 7, 2026 (47d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingGoDaddy.com, LLC
Server locationSG
Web serverApache
Platform / CMSWordPress

Redirect Chain

Hops
2
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://pmlsdbs.ac.in/
  • 2301https://pmlsdbs.ac.in/
  • 3200https://www.pmlsdbs.ac.in/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPGoDaddy.com, LLC
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

What to do

Still, stay alert

No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.

  • Double-check the exact URL in your address bar

    Confirm you are actually on pmlsdbs.ac.in and not a lookalike like p-mlsdbs.ac.in.com or an IDN homoglyph.

  • Use a password manager

    Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.

  • Discuss this site on the forum

    If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.

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Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·pmlsdbs.ac.in
SAFE

This is the official website for PML SD Business School, a legitimate PGDM college in Chandigarh promoted by the established GGDSD College Society. The domain is 6.9 years old with clean scans and no scam reports. No action needed.

The site is safe to visit for admissions information and program details. Use the contact information listed on the page for official inquiries.

AV engines
92
Domain age
7 yrs
Flagged
0
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Safety FAQ

Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.

  • Our automated security review found no threat indicators on pmlsdbs.ac.in, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, and the domain is 6.9 years old, registered on August 28, 2019 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
  • pmlsdbs.ac.in passed our automated checks with a trust score of 88/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
  • Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from pmlsdbs.ac.in), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from pmlsdbs.ac.in is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
  • No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report pmlsdbs.ac.in as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
  • No — pmlsdbs.ac.in is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
  • pmlsdbs.ac.in is 6.9 years old, registered on August 28, 2019 through ERNET India. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
  • Yes — pmlsdbs.ac.in presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by GoDaddy.com · GoDaddy TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1, valid for another 47 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
  • pmlsdbs.ac.in resolves to an IP operated by GoDaddy.com, LLC in SG (Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
  • This report is a record of the scan run on July 21, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about pmlsdbs.ac.in has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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