US Patent 7865953 Methods and arrangement for active malicious web pages discovery

An arrangement for performing active malicious web page discovery is provided. The arrangement includes a web monitor module, which is configured to monitor a plurality of potential suspicious unified resource locators (URLs). The arrangement also includes a crawler module, which is configured to download the plurality of potential suspicious URLs. The arrangement further includes a malicious page identifier (MPI), which is configured to verify a set of risk statuses for the plurality of potential suspicious URLs.