Using heuristics to detect malicious pages

We have already discussed the different kinds of URLs, such as benign URLs, spam URLs, and malicious URLs. In the following exercise, we will categorize some URLs, thereby making a prediction of the type of pages that they would redirect us to. Benign URLs always drives us to benign sites. Spam URLs either lead us to a command and control server or a spam website that tries to sell us unsolicited items. Malicious URLs lead us to sites that install some kind of malware on our systems. Since the system does not actually visit the pages of the websites that the URL points to, we are able to save a lot of resources in terms of latency and get a better performance out of our computer.

Data for the analysis

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