Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ethan Jacob Holland

Amar Dinesh Patel

Ravi Chandru Shahani

Douglas John Hines

Abhijeet Surendra Hatekar

Revanth Rameshkumar

Cybersecurity enhancements help avoid malicious Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). Embodiments may reduce or eliminate reliance on subjective analysis or detonation virtual machines. URL substrings are automatically analyzed for maliciousness using malice patterns. Patterns may test counts, lengths, rarity, encodings, and other inherent aspects of URLs. URLs may be analyzed individually, or in groups to detect shared portions, or both. URL analysis may use or avoid machine learning, and may use or avoid lookups. Malice patterns may be used individually or in combinations to detect malicious URLs. Analysis results may enhance security through blocking use of suspect URLs, flagging them for further analysis, or allowing their validated use, for instance. Analysis results may also be fed back to further train a machine learning model or a statistical model.

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