Detecting malicious URLs using machine learning techniques: review and research directions

M Aljabri, HS Altamimi, SA Albelali, M Al-Harbi… - IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, the digital world has advanced significantly, particularly on the Internet,
which is critical given that many of our activities are now conducted online. As a result of …

PMANet: Malicious URL detection via post-trained language model guided multi-level feature attention network

R Liu, Y Wang, H Xu, Z Qin, F Zhang, Y Liu, Z Cao - Information Fusion, 2025 - Elsevier
The expansion of the Internet has led to the widespread proliferation of malicious URLs,
becoming a primary vector for cyber threats. Detecting malicious URLs is now essential for …

Phishing URLs detection using sequential and parallel ML techniques: comparative analysis

N Nagy, M Aljabri, A Shaahid, AA Ahmed, F Alnasser… - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
In today's digitalized era, the world wide web services are a vital aspect of each individual's
daily life and are accessible to the users via uniform resource locators (URLs) …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic feature selection model for adaptive cross site scripting attack detection using developed multi-agent deep Q learning model

IK Thajeel, K Samsudin, SJ Hashim… - Journal of King Saud …, 2023 - Elsevier
Web applications' popularity has raised attention in various service domains, which
increased the concern about cyber-attacks. One of these most serious and frequent web …

TransURL: Improving malicious URL detection with multi-layer Transformer encoding and multi-scale pyramid features

R Liu, Y Wang, Z Guo, H Xu, Z Qin, W Ma, F Zhang - Computer Networks, 2024 - Elsevier
While machine learning progress is advancing the detection of malicious URLs, advanced
Transformers applied to URLs face difficulties in extracting local information, character-level …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating the influence of feature sources for malicious website detection

A Chaiban, D Sovilj, H Soliman, G Salmon, X Lin - Applied sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Malicious websites in general, and phishing websites in particular, attempt to mimic
legitimate websites in order to trick users into trusting them. These websites, often a primary …

Malicious url detection via pretrained language model guided multi-level feature attention network

R Liu, Y Wang, H Xu, Z Qin, Y Liu, Z Cao - arxiv preprint arxiv:2311.12372, 2023 - arxiv.org
The widespread use of the Internet has revolutionized information retrieval methods.
However, this transformation has also given rise to a significant cybersecurity challenge: the …

Explainable Machine Learning for Bag of Words-Based Phishing Detection

MC Calzarossa, P Giudici, R Zieni - World Conference on Explainable …, 2023 - Springer
Phishing is a fraudulent practice aimed at convincing individuals to reveal sensitive
information, such as account credentials or credit card details, by clicking the links of …