Deep belief network based detection and categorization of malicious URLs

摘要

The Internet, web consumers and computing systems have become more vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Malicious uniform resource locator (URL) is a prominent cyber-attack broadly used with the intention of data, money or personal information stealing. Malicious URLs comprise phishing URLs, spamming URLs, and malware URLs. Detection of malicious URL and identification of their attack type are important to thwart such attacks and to adopt required countermeasures. The proposed methodology for detection and categorization of malicious URLs uses stacked restricted Boltzmann machine for feature selection with deep neural network for binary classification. For multiple classes, IBK-kNN, Binary Relevance, and Label Powerset with SVM are used for classification. The approach is tested with 27700 URL samples and the results demonstrate that the deep learning-based feature selection and classification techniques are able to quickly train the network and detect with reduced false positives.