Scan a URL for Phishing Threats in Java

Attempts to disguise phishing attacks as an email from your bank or another trusted source occur all too often these days. To ensure your employees and/or users don’t get lured in by these bogus requests for information, it’s important to both educate them on the potential threat, and shield yourself with the proper tools. In this post, we will be covering a simple way to check if an input URL is at risk of being a phishing threat or attack using an API in Java.

To install the Maven SDK, we’re going to add a jitpack reference to our repository:

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>jitpack.io</id>
        <url>https://jitpack.io</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

Then we’ll add a reference to the dependency:

<dependencies>
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.Cloudmersive</groupId>
    <artifactId>Cloudmersive.APIClient.Java</artifactId>
    <version>v3.90</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

Now we can add our imports to the controller and call the function with the following code:

// Import classes:
//import com.cloudmersive.client.invoker.ApiClient;
//import com.cloudmersive.client.invoker.ApiException;
//import com.cloudmersive.client.invoker.Configuration;
//import com.cloudmersive.client.invoker.auth.*;
//import com.cloudmersive.client.DomainApi;
ApiClient defaultClient = Configuration.getDefaultApiClient();
// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
ApiKeyAuth Apikey = (ApiKeyAuth) defaultClient.getAuthentication("Apikey");
Apikey.setApiKey("YOUR API KEY");
// Uncomment the following line to set a prefix for the API key, e.g. "Token" (defaults to null)
//Apikey.setApiKeyPrefix("Token");
DomainApi apiInstance = new DomainApi();
PhishingCheckRequest request = new PhishingCheckRequest(); // PhishingCheckRequest | Input URL request
try {
    PhishingCheckResponse result = apiInstance.domainPhishingCheck(request);
    System.out.println(result);
} catch (ApiException e) {
    System.err.println("Exception when calling DomainApi#domainPhishingCheck");
    e.printStackTrace();
}

And just like that, your phishing risk will be identified! Easy and efficient.