Very common these days when you receive an email from unknown sender’s or its an marketing email. You will find links inside that email claiming to get rewards or you can win cash. Such emails or any other emails comes with suspicious links. Email works on recommendations basis. When you regularly uses email it will show you relevant ads in emails. For example — if you are using email for searching for jobs. After few days you will start receiving ads on spamming jobs. Most of them contains links by using big tech companies names. But now attacking scenario has changed. Mostly attacker tries to redirect to another malicious web pages. Because now days email does not allow to upload any malicious piece of code. Many security implementations has been uploaded. But email cannot resolve redirect on web pages. For that users have to work very carefully. Such attacks are also refer to clickjacking methods which are used to trick users to click on links. Clickjacking involves hidden button which is implemented using iframe to redirect victim to another web page without notifying victim. This attack involves stealing user information like passwords, financial information. Clickjacking attacks can also be done inside desktop applications.
We will show you some methods of to check if you found any web page suspicious. There are many ways of finding web pages is suspicious or not. Make sure to never open any web page if you found it suspicious. When I was working in Cyber security company. I have heard many such cases of suspicious Links. There were many people involved in such attacks. They become victim and trapped in the hands of hackers. There were even blackmailed and hackers were demanding money from them.
If you receive any unknown email with suspicious link. You can use virustotal.com for checking if the link is suspicious or not. As you are all aware of coronavirus is spreading all around the globe. Thus hackers are also active in spreading mislead information about coronavirus by creating fake domains using the name CORONAVIRUS.
Top Sites For Scanning Suspicious Or Malicious URL/Links -
VIRUSTOTAL
Virustotal is very popular domain for scanning any file and URLs/Links. You can scan URLs. We have found one url regarding coronavirus. We have tested it using virustotal.com. Below you will found the url to be suspicious.
Virustotal
ASTRA URL SCANNER
This site offers free as well as paid plans for scanning website. You can use free plan for scanning suspicious URL.
ASTRA URL SCANNER
QUTTERA URL SCANNER
Quttera is another URL scanner used for scanning wordpress sites. Like any other URLs scanner. It scans for malicious web sites.
spaQUTTERA URL SCANNER
SUCURL URL SCANNER
Sucurl is a URL scanner used for scanning wordpress, joomla sites. It scans malicious websites. It also scans other malicious websites like — defacements, spamming websites.
SITEGUARDING
Siteguarding is used in scanning suspicious URLs.This site scans for malicious javascript files.
LINK SHORTNERS
If you receive any shortner links and you found that link to be suspicious. You can use Online Link Expander. Link Expanders are used to expand the short links.
CHECK SHORT URL
Some malicious links still can be hidden using embedded links. Embedded links is the another way to redirect another malicious webapages. Many times webpages can be hidden. For seeing them just hover your mouse cursor towards that link. And you will be able to see hover links. Below example shows how embedded links are used for attacking.
EMBEDDED LINKS
Above example of malicious website shows how embedded links are used for redirecting victims. Above website which relates to coronavirus safety tips is actually an malicious website. For security reasons do not open this website. It shown to malicious.
SAFETY TIP
Attackers always tries to take advantage whenever user wants to open any unknown links in a hurry. If you ever found any link to be suspicious never open such links. Such links may encounter to install malware into your systems. Use all the above methods before opening such links. (source: medium)
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