Title
Towards detection of phishing websites on client-side using machine learning based approach.
Abstract
The existing anti-phishing approaches use the blacklist methods or features based machine learning techniques. Blacklist methods fail to detect new phishing attacks and produce high false positive rate. Moreover, existing machine learning based methods extract features from the third party, search engine, etc. Therefore, they are complicated, slow in nature, and not fit for the real-time environment. To solve this problem, this paper presents a machine learning based novel anti-phishing approach that extracts the features from client side only. We have examined the various attributes of the phishing and legitimate websites in depth and identified nineteen outstanding features to distinguish phishing websites from legitimate ones. These nineteen features are extracted from the URL and source code of the website and do not depend on any third party, which makes the proposed approach fast, reliable, and intelligent. Compared to other methods, the proposed approach has relatively high accuracy in detection of phishing websites as it achieved 99.39% true positive rate and 99.09% of overall detection accuracy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-017-0414-0
Telecommunication Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Phishing attack,Social engineering,Website,Machine learning,Hyperlink
Client-side,False positive rate,Search engine,Phishing,Computer science,Source code,Blacklist,Social engineering (security),Artificial intelligence,Hyperlink,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
68
4
1018-4864
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.42
21
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ankit Kumar Jain1817.77
B. Brij Gupta21766.19