Spam, damn spam, and statistics: using statistical analysis to locate spam web pages
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on the Web and Databases: colocated with ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2004
Detecting spam web pages through content analysis
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb 2007)
ACM SIGIR Forum
Automatic Detection for JavaScript Obfuscation Attacks in Web Pages through String Pattern Analysis
FGIT '09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Future Generation Information Technology
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval
An effective method for combating malicious scripts clickbots
ESORICS'09 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Research in computer security
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval
Survey on web spam detection: principles and algorithms
ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter
Fighting against web spam: a novel propagation method based on click-through data
SIGIR '12 Proceedings of the 35th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Analysis and detection of web spam by means of web content
IRFC'12 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Multidisciplinary Information Retrieval
Securing web-clients with instrumented code and dynamic runtime monitoring
Journal of Systems and Software
Extracting URLs from JavaScript via program analysis
Proceedings of the 2013 9th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering
SAAD, a content based Web Spam Analyzer and Detector
Journal of Systems and Software
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Redirection spam presents a web page with false content to a crawler for indexing, but automatically redirects the browser to a different web page. Redirection is usually immediate (on page load) but may also be triggered by a timer or a harmless user event such as a mouse move. JavaScript redirection is the most notorious of redirection techniques and is hard to detect as many of the prevalent crawlers are script-agnostic. In this paper, we study common JavaScript redirection spam techniques on the web. Our findings indicate that obfuscation techniques are very prevalent among JavaScript redirection spam pages. These obfuscation techniques limit the effectiveness of static analysis and static feature based systems. Based on our findings, we recommend a robust counter measure using a light weight JavaScript parser and engine.