An Assessment of Features Related to Phishing Websites using an Automated Technique

Mohammad, Rami, McCluskey, T.L. and Thabtah, Fadi Abdeljaber (2012) An Assessment of Features Related to Phishing Websites using an Automated Technique. In: International Conferece For Internet Technology And Secured Transactions. ICITST 2012 . IEEE, London, UK, pp. 492-497. ISBN 978-1-4673-5325-0

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Abstract

Corporations that offer online trading can achieve a competitive edge by serving worldwide clients. Nevertheless, online trading faces many obstacles such as the unsecured money orders. Phishing is considered a form of internet crime that is defined as the art of mimicking a website of an honest enterprise aiming to acquire confidential information such as usernames, passwords and social security number. There are some characteristics that distinguish phishing websites from legitimate ones such as long URL, IP address in URL, adding prefix and suffix to domain and request URL, etc. In this paper, we explore important features that are automatically extracted from websites using a new tool instead of relying on an experienced human in the extraction process and then judge on the features importance in deciding website legitimacy. Our research aims to develop a group of features that have been shown to be sound and effective in predicting phishing websites and to extract those features according to new scientific precise rules.

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Item Type:	Book Chapter
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Website features, Phishing, Security, Rule, features extraction.
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Schools:	School of Computing and Engineering School of Computing and Engineering > High-Performance Intelligent Computing > Planning, Autonomy and Representation of Knowledge School of Computing and Engineering > High-Performance Intelligent Computing > Planning, Autonomy and Representation of Knowledge
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Depositing User:	Rami Mohammad
Date Deposited:	14 Mar 2013 09:58
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2018 12:00
URI:	http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/16229

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