{"id":12195,"date":"2017-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2017\/predicting-malicious-urls\/"},"modified":"2017-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T08:00:00","slug":"predicting-malicious-urls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2017\/predicting-malicious-urls\/","title":{"rendered":"Predicting Malicious URLs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"project-sponsor-dept-year\"><span class=\"project-sponsor\">Proofpoint<\/span> <span class=\"project-dept-year\">Computer Science, 2016-17<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"project-team\">\n<p><strong>Liaison(s):<\/strong> Thomas Lynam,  Mike Morris &#8217;97<br \/>\n<strong>Advisor(s):<\/strong> Elizabeth Sweedyk<br \/>\n<strong>Students(s):<\/strong> Vidushi Ojha (PM),  Aidan Cheng,  Kevin Herrera,  Carli Lessard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"project-abstract\">\n<p>As part of their security solutions, Proofpoint provides a service to scan URLs embedded in clients&#8217; emails, and determine whether they lead to sites containing malware. Suspicious URLs are redirected to a virtual environment, or sandbox, where they are tested for maliciousness. The goal of our project is to create a machine learning classifier which can better detect malicious URLs, so that fewer URLs need to be sandboxed. We investigated various models and features to create a number of options for such a classifier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proofpoint Computer Science, 2016-17 Liaison(s): Thomas Lynam, Mike Morris &#8217;97 Advisor(s): Elizabeth Sweedyk Students(s): Vidushi Ojha (PM), Aidan Cheng, Kevin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[232],"class_list":["post-12195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","tag-proofpoint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}