Prevention of Drive by Download Attack (URL Malware Detector)

Abstract

This paper is intended to inform the user about a software tool called ‘url malware detector’. This software will help the user avoid falling prey for drive by download attacks. This tool accepts the url as the input text in a. txt file extension. It lists the files that are downloaded in backend during the process of urlvisitization and scans them on an online malware detection tool and yield the results in a SQLite database and visualizations. The details of the malware present in those files are represented in a graphical format. It uses MD5 hash technique. The paper consists of the detailed analysis of the tool in 5 modules for more comprehensibility. This paper will be helpful for the Inquisitors who wish to learn about prevention of drive by download attacks. This will also prove to be of great importance to people who want to be equipped with the updating of latest security threats while surfing World Wide Web.