Malicious URL Detection using Logistic Regression
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
One of the major challenges faced by the Internet in the present day is to deal with achieving web security from ever-rising diverse types of threats. Machine learning algorithms offer promising techniques to detect malicious websites performing unethical anonymous activities on the Internet. Attackers have been found to continuously evolve with updated techniques to attack web users using malicious Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). The main objective of such attacks is to gain financial benefits through acquiring personal information. In the present research, a machine learning (ML)-based approach is proposed to identify malicious users from URL data. An ML model is implemented using Logistic Regression to detect malicious URLs. The data set used in the study is collected from well-known sources like PhishTank, Kaggle.com, and Github.com. Our novel framework is further evaluated against traditional malicious URL models and our results highlight positive steps forward of the proposed approach.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it