Paper Info
Title
It Never Rains but It Pours - Analyzing and Detecting Fake Removal Information Advertisement Sites.
Abstract
Fake antivirus (AV) software is a serious threat on the Internet to make users install malware and expose their personal information. Fake removal information advertisement (FRAD) sites, which introduce fake removal information for cyber threats, have emerged as platforms for distributing fake AV software. Although FRAD sites seriously threaten users who have been suffering from cyber threats and need information for removing them, little attention has been given to revealing these sites. In this paper, we propose a system to automatically crawl the web and identify FRAD sites. To shed light on the pervasiveness of this type of attack, we performed a comprehensive analysis of both passively and actively collected data. Our system collected 2,913 FRAD sites in 31 languages, which have 73.5 million visits per month in total. We show that FRAD sites occupy search results when users search for cyber threats, thus preventing the users from obtaining the correct information.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/978-3-030-52683-2_9
DIMVA
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Takashi Koide112.39
Daiki Chiba23812.66
Mitsuaki Akiyama315633.87
Katsunari Yoshioka414722.92
Tsutomu Matsumoto51156197.58