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A Hybrid Deep Learning and Anomaly Detection Framework for Real-Time Malicious URL Classification

Published: November 30, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2512.03462v1

By: Berkani Khaled, Zeraoulia Rafik

Potential Business Impact:

Stops bad websites from tricking you online.

Business Areas:
Darknet Internet Services

Malicious URLs remain a primary vector for phishing, malware, and cyberthreats. This study proposes a hybrid deep learning framework combining \texttt{HashingVectorizer} n-gram analysis, SMOTE balancing, Isolation Forest anomaly filtering, and a lightweight neural network classifier for real-time URL classification. The multi-stage pipeline processes URLs from open-source repositories with statistical features (length, dot count, entropy), achieving $O(NL + EBdh)$ training complexity and a 20\,ms prediction latency. Empirical evaluation yields 96.4\% accuracy, 95.4\% F1-score, and 97.3\% ROC-AUC, outperforming CNN (94.8\%) and SVM baselines with a $50\!\times$--$100\!\times$ speedup (Table~\ref{tab:comp-complexity}). A multilingual Tkinter GUI (Arabic/English/French) enables real-time threat assessment with clipboard integration. The framework demonstrates superior scalability and resilience against obfuscated URL patterns.

Page Count
14 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Cryptography and Security