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Table 2 Redirection types

From: LSTM RNN: detecting exploit kits using redirection chain sequences

Category

Type

Example

Header

Referrer

referrer field holds source, and host field holds destination URL

Header

Location

host field holds source, and location field holds destination URL

Content

HTML

http-equiv=~Refresh~ url=~< url>~ and form |a|p|img src=~< url>~

Content

JavaScript

window |document(.location |.open)?.href |hostname|replace|assign|write

Content

iFrame

< iframe src=~http://evil.com~></iframe>

Content

Base64

window.cback(‘aHR0cDovL2V2aWwuY29tL2V4cGxvaXQvZXhwbG9pdC5waHA=’);

Content

Concatenation

var a = ~http://~ + ‘evil’ + ~.com~; window.href=a;

Content

Unknown

URL found in page content and subsequently visited, no verifiable source

Relational

Subdomain

URL shares domain with recently accessed URL, no other identifiable source