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Tool That Makes URLs Appear Malicious Through Redirection

By

jordigh

8mo ago· 1 min readen

Summary

This article describes a web tool that transforms any URL to make it appear malicious or 'phishy' through redirection, similar to how URL shorteners work but with the opposite intent of making links look suspicious rather than shortening them.

Key quotes

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This is a tool that takes any link and makes it look malicious
Where tinyurl makes an url shorter, this site makes it look malicious
The fishy link doesn't actually do anything harmful - it just looks suspicious
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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 mal

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