A malicious URLs detection system using optimization and machine learning classifiers

The openness of the World Wide Web (Web) has become more exposed to cyber-attacks. An attacker performs the cyber-attacks on Web using malware Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) since it widely used by internet users. Therefore, a significant approach is required to detect malicious URLs and identify...

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Main Authors: Lee, Ong Vienna, Heryanto, Ahmad, Mohd Faizal, Ab Razak, Anis Farihan, Mat Raffei, Eh Phon, Danakorn Nincarean, Shahreen, Kasim, Sutikno, Tole
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Published: Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science 2020
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author Lee, Ong Vienna
Heryanto, Ahmad
Mohd Faizal, Ab Razak
Anis Farihan, Mat Raffei
Eh Phon, Danakorn Nincarean
Shahreen, Kasim
Sutikno, Tole
author_facet Lee, Ong Vienna
Heryanto, Ahmad
Mohd Faizal, Ab Razak
Anis Farihan, Mat Raffei
Eh Phon, Danakorn Nincarean
Shahreen, Kasim
Sutikno, Tole
author_sort Lee, Ong Vienna
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description The openness of the World Wide Web (Web) has become more exposed to cyber-attacks. An attacker performs the cyber-attacks on Web using malware Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) since it widely used by internet users. Therefore, a significant approach is required to detect malicious URLs and identify their nature attack. This study aims to assess the efficiency of the machine learning approach to detect and identify malicious URLs. In this study, we applied features optimization approaches by using a bio-inspired algorithm for selecting significant URL features which able to detect malicious URLs applications. By using machine learning approach with static analysis technique is used for detecting malicious URLs applications. Based on this combination as well as significant features, this paper shows promising results with higher detection accuracy. The bio-inspired algorithm: particle swarm optimization (PSO) is used to optimized URLs features. In detecting malicious URLs, it shows that naïve Bayes and support vector machine (SVM) are able to achieve high detection accuracy with rate value of 99%, using URL as a feature.
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spelling ump-401052024-01-19T04:00:09Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/40105/ A malicious URLs detection system using optimization and machine learning classifiers Lee, Ong Vienna Heryanto, Ahmad Mohd Faizal, Ab Razak Anis Farihan, Mat Raffei Eh Phon, Danakorn Nincarean Shahreen, Kasim Sutikno, Tole QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science QA76 Computer software T Technology (General) TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) The openness of the World Wide Web (Web) has become more exposed to cyber-attacks. An attacker performs the cyber-attacks on Web using malware Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) since it widely used by internet users. Therefore, a significant approach is required to detect malicious URLs and identify their nature attack. This study aims to assess the efficiency of the machine learning approach to detect and identify malicious URLs. In this study, we applied features optimization approaches by using a bio-inspired algorithm for selecting significant URL features which able to detect malicious URLs applications. By using machine learning approach with static analysis technique is used for detecting malicious URLs applications. Based on this combination as well as significant features, this paper shows promising results with higher detection accuracy. The bio-inspired algorithm: particle swarm optimization (PSO) is used to optimized URLs features. In detecting malicious URLs, it shows that naïve Bayes and support vector machine (SVM) are able to achieve high detection accuracy with rate value of 99%, using URL as a feature. Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science 2020 Article PeerReviewed pdf en cc_by_sa_4 http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/40105/1/A%20malicious%20URLs%20detection%20system%20using%20optimization%20and%20machine.pdf Lee, Ong Vienna and Heryanto, Ahmad and Mohd Faizal, Ab Razak and Anis Farihan, Mat Raffei and Eh Phon, Danakorn Nincarean and Shahreen, Kasim and Sutikno, Tole (2020) A malicious URLs detection system using optimization and machine learning classifiers. Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 17 (3). pp. 1210-1214. ISSN 2502-4752. (Published) https://doi.org/10.11591/ijeecs.v17.i3.pp1210-1214 https://doi.org/10.11591/ijeecs.v17.i3.pp1210-1214
spellingShingle QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
QA76 Computer software
T Technology (General)
TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Lee, Ong Vienna
Heryanto, Ahmad
Mohd Faizal, Ab Razak
Anis Farihan, Mat Raffei
Eh Phon, Danakorn Nincarean
Shahreen, Kasim
Sutikno, Tole
A malicious URLs detection system using optimization and machine learning classifiers
title A malicious URLs detection system using optimization and machine learning classifiers
title_full A malicious URLs detection system using optimization and machine learning classifiers
title_fullStr A malicious URLs detection system using optimization and machine learning classifiers
title_full_unstemmed A malicious URLs detection system using optimization and machine learning classifiers
title_short A malicious URLs detection system using optimization and machine learning classifiers
title_sort malicious urls detection system using optimization and machine learning classifiers
topic QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
QA76 Computer software
T Technology (General)
TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
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