Collected research

Deceptive Previews: A Study of the Link Preview Trustworthiness in Social Platforms

Giada Stivala and Giancarlo Pellegrino · NDSS Symposium

Measures how 20 social networks and messengers build link previews from a page's own metadata. Four render previews that hide the real destination even from a careful user, all of them can be given misleading previews by an attacker who registers a domain, 18 apply no malicious-link checks, and the checks that exist fall to redirects.

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Researcher

Giada Stivala and Giancarlo Pellegrino

Published by

NDSS Symposium

Topic

Other

In the archive

• Collected in the 2020 research round

Related sources

• NDSS 2020 Deceptive Previews: A Study of the Link Preview Trustworthiness in Social Platforms
• NDSS 2020 Deceptive Previews: A Study of the Link Preview Trustworthiness in Social Platforms

Tags

• measurement-study
• filter-bypass
• open-redirect
• url-parsing
• large-scale-scan
• http
• owasp-a04-2021
• owasp-a05-2021

This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of Giada Stivala and Giancarlo Pellegrino, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host; this one was last captured on 19 August 2026.