Phishing Detection: Analysis of Visual Similarity Based Approaches

Phishing is one of the major problems faced by cyber-world and leads to financial losses for both industries and individuals. Detection of phishing attack with high accuracy has always been a challenging issue. At present, visual similarities based techniques are very useful for detecting phishing w...

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Published in:Security and communication networks 2017-01, Vol.2017 (2017), p.1-20
Main Authors: Jain, Ankit Kumar, Gupta, B. B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Browsing
Comparative studies
Cybercrime
Fraud
Identity theft
Malware
Phishing
Similarity
Solution space
Websites
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Summary:Phishing is one of the major problems faced by cyber-world and leads to financial losses for both industries and individuals. Detection of phishing attack with high accuracy has always been a challenging issue. At present, visual similarities based techniques are very useful for detecting phishing websites efficiently. Phishing website looks very similar in appearance to its corresponding legitimate website to deceive users into believing that they are browsing the correct website. Visual similarity based phishing detection techniques utilise the feature set like text content, text format, HTML tags, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), image, and so forth, to make the decision. These approaches compare the suspicious website with the corresponding legitimate website by using various features and if the similarity is greater than the predefined threshold value then it is declared phishing. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of phishing attacks, their exploitation, some of the recent visual similarity based approaches for phishing detection, and its comparative study. Our survey provides a better understanding of the problem, current solution space, and scope of future research to deal with phishing attacks efficiently using visual similarity based approaches.
ISSN:1939-0114
1939-0122
DOI:10.1155/2017/5421046