Abstract
Phishing is a major problem on the Web. Despite the significant attention it has received over the years, there has been no definitive solution. While the state-of-the-art solutions have reasonably good performance, they require a large amount of training data and are not adept at detecting phishing attacks against new targets. In this paper, we begin with two core observations: (a) although phishers try to make a phishing webpage look similar to its target, they do not have unlimited freedom in structuring the phishing webpage, and (b) a webpage can be characterized by a small set of key terms, how these key terms are used in different parts of a webpage is different in the case of legitimate and phishing webpages. Based on these observations, we develop a phishing detection system with several notable properties: it requires very little training data, scales well to much larger test data, is language-independent, fast, resilient to adaptive attacks and implemented entirely on client-side. In addition, we developed a target identification component that can identify the target website that a phishing webpage is attempting to mimic. The target detection component is faster than previously reported systems and can help minimize false positives in our phishing detection system.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | IEEE 36th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) |
Publisher | IEEE |
Pages | 323 - 333 |
Number of pages | 11 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-5090-1483-5 |
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Publication status | Published - 10 Aug 2016 |
MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
Event | International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems - Nara Hotel, Nara, Japan Duration: 27 Jun 2016 → 30 Jun 2016 Conference number: 36 http://www-higashi.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/icdcs2016/ |
Publication series
Name | International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. Proceedings |
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Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
ISSN (Print) | 1063-6927 |
Conference
Conference | International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems |
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Abbreviated title | ICDCS 2016 |
Country | Japan |
City | Nara |
Period | 27/06/2016 → 30/06/2016 |
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