Url shortners have been used for a while now to to reduce the length of a URL to something that can be easily shared online. It became extra popular at sites like Twitter which counted the URL length into the character count for the post (though that was later changed to a fixed number, 23 if I remember correctly). The disadvantage of such shortner’s was that they converted phishing links into a shorter URL that looked legit and the only way to figure out if the link was valid was to access it which could be risky due to Zero day exploits etc. This made life ‘interesting’ from a security controls perspective as it makes it harder to control/restrict such urls.
So someone decided to take it the other way and create a re-director that converts regular URL’s into a really fishy looking URL
This is a tool that takes any link and makes it look malicious. It works on the idea of a redirect. Much like https://tinyurl.com/ for example. Where tinyurl makes an url shorter, this site makes it look malicious.
Place any link in the below input, press the button and get back a fishy(phishy, heh…get, it?) looking link. The fishy link doesn’t actually do anything, it will just redirect you to the original link you provided.
You can try them out at https://phishyurl.com/. I asked the site to create a link to suramya.com/blog and it generated the following URL:
https://cheap-bitcoin.online/evil-hunter/exploit-jacker/fake_launcher_tool.exe?content=overwrite&id=824e35fe&origin=spoof&payload=%28function%28%29%7Blet+a%3D5%2Cb%3D3%3Blet+sum%3Da%2Bb%3B%7D%29%28%29%3B&portscan=scan&referer=tamper
If you visit the above link, it will take you to the blog homepage.
Source: chaos.social/@FlohEinstein
– Suramya