A Personalized Whitelist Approach for Phishing Webpage Detection
A. Belabed, Esma Aı̈meur, Azzeddine Chikh · 2012
The number of phishing attacks against web serviceshas seen a steady increase causing, for example, a negative effecton the ability of banking and financial institutions to deliverreliable services on the Internet. This paper presents an automaticapproach detecting phishing attacks. Our approach combinesa personalized whitelisting approach with machine learningtechniques. The whitelist is used as filter that blocks phish webpages used to imitate innocuous user behavior. The phishingpages that are not blocked by the whitelist pass are furtherfiltered using a Support Vector Machine classifier designed andoptimized to classify these threats. Our experimental results showthat the proposed approach improves over the current state-ofthe-art methods.