Patent attributes
The technology described herein identifies malicious URLs using a classifier that is both accurate and fast. Aspects of the technology are particularly well adapted for use as a real-time URL security analysis tool because the technology is able to quickly process a URL and produce a warning when a malicious URL is identified. The rapid processing speed of the technology described herein is produced, in part, by use of only a single input signal, which is the URL itself. The high accuracy produced by the technology described herein is achieved by analyzing the unstructured text on both a character-by-character level and a word-by-word level. The technology described herein uses both character-level and word-level information from the incoming URL.
