Research Article

An Assessment of Lexical, Network, and Content-Based Features for Detecting Malicious URLs Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models

Table 4

Parameters’ settings applied for all classifiers.

ModelParameterValue

RFNumber of trees100

CNNActivation function in hidden layersReLU
Number of neurons in output layer1
Activation function in output layerSigmoid
Dropout0.2, 0.5
Batch size32
Number of layers4
Number of neurons in hidden layers32, 64, 64

LSTMActivation function in hidden layersTanh
Number of neurons in output layer1
Activation function in output layerSigmoid
Dropout0.1
Batch size32
Number of layers3
Number of neurons in hidden layers          8, 8