Phish Muzzle: This Fish Won't Bite
Prashant Hari Narayan Rajput · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2017
Phishing as an attempt to obtain sensitive information from users using deceitful methods.Email Phishing is done using email as the method of delivery for the attack and targetedemail phishing or Business Email Compromise (BEC) are more difficult to detect as theycannot be detected by regular spam filters. Difficulty of detection makes targeted emailphishing one of the hardest problem to solve. We present a new method to detect email spearphishing attacks using a method that is less taxing on the machine resource as compared toa spam filter which uses machine learning. We have implemented the scheme as a plugin tooutlook and report our performance and effectiveness based on CSDMC2010 SPAM, Enronand Spam Assassin dataset with a total of 25,834 spam emails and 41,320 ham emails.