Protect users from phishing and malware links in real time with the industry’s most accurate phishing detection, domain reputation and threat analysis. Get more data to make better decisions with the full API suite and integration options for custom scans, multi-device screenshots, and granular risk scores.
Malicious URL detection API overviews are online social engineering attacks to steal digital identity information. They typically take the form of a link (URL) in an email, chat session or blog post that leads to a malicious website hosted by attackers to steal private data such as credentials or credit card details.
Malicious URL Detection API Overview: Key Features & Benefits
Using our DNS-based threat intelligence, we provide a combination of blacklists and deep machine learning to scan suspicious URLs and identify phishing domains and viruses. Our URL scanning algorithms intelligently match similar indicators across a wide range of threat datasets and use these to perform real-time scanning, so that even new phishing threats can be detected.
URLs are analyzed for security flaws and malicious content, including XSS, SQLi, path traversal, CMDi, and recursion vulnerabilities. They are also checked for popular phishing indicators such as URL shorteners, free content hosting services like Weebly and Blogspot that are more prone to be used by cybercriminals, and for risky TLD extensions often associated with malware, scams or phishing.
We also validate the legitimacy of a URL by confirming that it is listed on Google’s Safe Browsing lists. In addition, we identify the original source of a scanned URL by checking whether the final destination URL after all redirections is different from the initial one.…
