Detection of Spain e-mails by analyzing the distributing behaviors of e-mail servers
Ling-Shen Tseng, Chih‐Hung Wu · Hybrid Intelligent Systems · 2003
The spam problem is a serious side-effect of the abuse of e-mails, which is getting worse every day. Spams can be traced by keyword-identification on the message bodies. However, by observing the distributing behaviors of e-mails, we found that it also can be identified by analyzing the delivering patterns on mail servers. In this research, we analyze the behaviors of users in sending/receiving e-mails and try to detect spam e-mails by monitoring if such patterns do happen on mail servers. Such behavioral patterns are summarized and categorized into 20 types. We have developed a knowledge-based system that monitors the behaviors of e-mail servers for early alert of being spammed. Experimental results show that our method is workable and effective and can successfully identify spams.