A Comparative Study of Malicious URL Detection: Regular Expression Analysis, Machine Learning, and VirusTotal API
Jason Misquitta,
Anusha Kannan
Abstract:In this paper, malicious URL detection was done in 3 ways. In the first method, self-written code was used that breaks up the URL into several fragments and then using functions and checkers analyses whether the URL is malicious. The second approach involved utilizing a fixed csv dataset containing website URLs from over 11,000 websites. Each entry in the dataset included 30 parameters describing the website and a class label indicating whether it was classified as a phishing website (1) or not (-1). 9 machine… Show more
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