Kraven The Hunter

So Tyrone, why did you decide to do this project? I plead the 5th. What I will say, is that the idea to do it was pretty cool, am I right? LOL. This is essentially a browser extension that parses the URL the browser is currently on and sends it somehwere..

Send it where? Well, I have a FastAPI server on the backend exposing a machine learning model trained on a databases of known malicious URL. First I had to decide what are my features. Well, for starters, malicious URLs tend to be werid, right? What do I mean by that? They are long and have lots of special characters. Well, So I used the length of the URL and the number of special characters and as well as a host of other stuff you know.

On the other hand, if we have a filter feature enabled on the server, we can direct traffic to check whether the URL is a shopping site or an adult entertainment site and all. Why would someone want to filter those out? Psshhhh, I don't know, maybe you have kids and you don't want them to see that stuff. So I added a filter for that too.

The page we eventually direct the user to is built off of React and Tailwind and it shows a minimal report on whether the URL is malicious or not and our degree of accuracy. If the URL is good, no redirects.