Enhanced Shortened Uniform Resource Locator Based on Phishing and Malware Detection Algorithm-A Secure Model

Security plays an important role in most of the applications like banking, military etc, In that, URL shortener is one of a kind. Any issues in security may causes damages to the applications and it lead to the dissatisfaction among the users. So in the existing URL shortener there are security issues which cause threats. URL Shortener is used to convert longer form of URL into shortened form of the URL. Users deal with many important URL’s in their day-to-day life. They are very long and annoying for the user to remember. It is the technique on the www in which URL can be made significantly short and can be redirected to the destination page. Often the redirected domain name is shorter than the original one. A shortened URL is more user friendly and it looks very neat, trimmed and attractive for the user. URL Shortener can be also used to beautify the link and track clicks to the link. Shortened URL can be abused by redirecting to phishing and malware websites which may cause harm to the users systems. Because they have no clue about the name of the destination website. So hackers may steal the credentials of the users and gain authorized access to the system which leads to damages in the system. This is the problem in the existing URL shortener in the market like bitly, clkim, cloudApp, Droplr, Geniuslink. To overcome the issues present in the existing systems, the idea behind this paper is to provide secure model for shortened URL which provides user awareness and confidence about the shortened URL’s. The main feature added is to verify whether the original website contains any malware and spurious infections in the system.