Brand Detection

As part of our scanning process, we try to identify malicious websites, specifically websites engaging in phishing and brand impersonation. Whenever possible, we try to attribute malicious behavior to a certain brand.

Our philosophy for detecting malicious websites is somewhat unique and slightly differs from the approach taken by other providers in this space.

• We are very aggressive in trying to detect malicious behavior, which means that some of our detections will be false positives.
• We try to attribute malicious activity to a brand whenever possible.
• Our brands database is manually curated and contains all brands that we currently track.
• Brands can be companies (like PayPal), conglomerates (like Microsoft), affiliates (like regional banks), government entities, and other generic umbrella categories for related content.
• You can ask us to add brands to our brand database. Simply reach out to us via email!
• We detect malicious behavior only based on actual content found on the scanned website.
• We currently do not detect malicious behavior purely based on domain names or URLs.