URLNet: Learning a URL representation with deep learning for malicious URL detection

• Main Authors: LE, Hung, PHAM, Hong Quang, SAHOO, Doyen, HOI, Steven C. H.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: URLNet; Malicious URL Detection; Deep Learning; Databases and Information Systems; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4135; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5138/viewcontent/UrlNet_2018_wp.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Malicious URLs host unsolicited content and are used to perpetrate cybercrimes. It is imperative to detect them in a timely manner. Traditionally, this is done through the usage of blacklists, which cannot be exhaustive, and cannot detect newly generated malicious URLs. To address this, recent years...