Detect Malware, Phishing, and Fake Websites With a Real-Time URL Scanner
A real-time URL scanner identifies malicious links on the clearnet and darkweb, checks for DNS and hash-based pivots, maps out attacker TTPs, pinpoints malicious infrastructure, and provides intelligence on specific attack vectors and threat groups. It can also help with preemptive assessments of potential risk (such as scrutinizing shortened URLs) and supporting the investigation of persistent cybersecurity threats (such as identifying affected websites hosting a malicious JavaScript file).
For example, Norton Safe Web uses real-time reputation services to automatically check a website or file for embedded malicious infections and suspicious links. It also alerts the site owner through the Google Transparency Report if the website is known to contain harmful content and can use machine learning to prevent phishing emails from being delivered.
Real-Time URL Scanner: Immediate Protection Against Threats
VirusTotal is another free tool that performs malware and threat detection on URLs by scanning them with multiple scanners. It then displays the results in an easy-to-read format that shows the status of each scan, including a detailed description of what each engine found.
A phishing scanner can look for indicators of phishing in the page content, headers and footers, favicon, and HTML markup. For example, it can identify text elements containing a username or password field and a submit button. Then, it can compare them to the XPath or CSS selector for a valid input> element. If the scanner determines that the page is a phishing website, it sends the user to a warning page instead of the original destination.…