Characterizing Malicious URL Campaigns

Understand

URLs are central to a myriad of cyber-security threats, from phishing to the distribution of malware.

• Their inherent ease of use and familiarity is continuously abused by attackers to evade defences and deceive end-users.
• Seemingly dissimilar URLs are being used in an organized way to perform phishing attacks and distribute malware.
• We refer to such behaviours as campaigns, with the hypothesis being that attacks are often coordinated to maximize success rates and develop evasion tactics.