Phishing Email Detection Technique by using Hybrid Features
Phishing emails is growing at an alarming rate in this few years. It has caused tremendous financial losses to internet users. Phishing techniques getting more advance everyday and this has created great challenge to the existing anti-phishing techniques. Hence, in this paper, we proposed to de...
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| Format: | Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/13468/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/13468/1/Phishing%20Email%20Detection%20Technique%20by%20using%20Hybrid%20Features%20%28abstract%29.pdf |
| Summary: | Phishing emails is growing at an alarming rate
in this few years. It has caused tremendous financial losses
to internet users. Phishing techniques getting more advance
everyday and this has created great challenge to the existing
anti-phishing techniques. Hence, in this paper, we proposed to
detect phishing emails through hybrids features. The hybrid
features consist of content-based, URL-based, and behaviorbased
features. Based on a set of 500 phishing emails and
500 legitimate emails, the proposed method achieved overall
accuracy of 97.25% and error rate of 2.75%. This promising
result verify the effectiveness of the proposed hybrid features
in detecting phishing email. |
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