Analyzing messages for malicious content using a cloud computing system

he system of claim 3, wherein determining the status of the message further comprises:

• in response to identifying no spelling errors in the URL, determining a destination identified by the URL;
• in response to determining that the destination identified by the URL is a file, determining a hash of the file;
• comparing the hash of the file to the hashes of known malicious files;
• and
• in response to the hash of the file matching a hash of one of the known malicious files, determining the status of the message as malicious.

The system of claim 4, wherein determining the status of the message further comprises:

• in response to the hash of the file not matching any of the hashes of known malicious files, analyzing contents of the file for spelling errors;
• in response to identifying at least one spelling error in the file, determining the status of the message as suspicious;
• and
• in response to identifying no spelling errors in the file, determining the status of the message as safe.

A method comprising:

• intercepting a message comprising a quick response (QR) code or a uniform resource locator (URL), wherein the QR code corresponds to the URL;
• determining a status of the message, wherein determining the status of the message comprises:
• determining a source of the message;
• comparing the source of the message to known malicious sources;
• in response to the source of the message not matching any of the known malicious sources, comparing the source of the message to known safe sources;
• in response to the source of the message not matching any of the known safe sources, comparing the URL to known malicious URLs;
• and
• in response to the URL matching a respective one of the known malicious URLs, determining the status of the message as malicious;
• and
• releasing the message to be displayed along with the status.

he method of claim 13, further comprising:

• in response to identifying no malicious code, analyzing contents of the webpage for spelling errors;
• in response to identifying at least one spelling error in the webpage, determining the status of the message as suspicious;
• and
• in response to identifying no spelling errors in the webpage, determine the status of the message as safe.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

• intercept a message comprising a quick response (QR) code or a uniform resource locator (URL), wherein the QR code corresponds to the URL;
• determine a status of the message, wherein determining the status of the message comprises:
• determining a source of the message;
• comparing the source of the message to known malicious sources;
• in response to the source of the message not matching any of the known malicious sources, comparing the source of the message to known safe sources;
• in response to the source of the message not matching any of the known safe sources, comparing the URL to known malicious URLs;
• and
• in response to the URL matching a respective one of the known malicious URLs, determining the status of the message as malicious;
• and
• release the message to be displayed along with the status.