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Email Phishing Attack Mitigation using Server Side Email Addon


Affiliations
1 Computer Networks and Security, Koneru Lakshmaiah University, Guntur - 522502, Andhra Pradesh, India
2 Department of Computer Science, Koneru Lakshmaiah University, Guntur - 522502, Andhra Pradesh, India
 

Background/Objectives: Attackers using the anonymity provided in the Internet, by which they are representing themselves as legitimate users/companies and sending fake offers/messages to the users. Objective of this paper is to mitigate phishing attack in email messages by analyzing email contents. Methods/Statistical Analysis: In this paper, we discuss a new server side anti phishing email addon algorithm, by using the properties associated with the hyper-links, which present in emails. The methods we used here are comparison methods, which compare the similarity of the links to the anchor text of that links. Findings: With this algorithm we found a way to mitigate email phishing. Applications/ Improvements: We improved accuracy of the finding phishing mails by checking the http links which are the mail tools to redirect user to the phishing site.

Keywords

Email Messages, Legitimate, Phishing, Threats, URLs.
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Authors

J. Dileep Kumar
Computer Networks and Security, Koneru Lakshmaiah University, Guntur - 522502, Andhra Pradesh, India
V. Srikanth
Department of Computer Science, Koneru Lakshmaiah University, Guntur - 522502, Andhra Pradesh, India
L. Tejeswini
Computer Networks and Security, Koneru Lakshmaiah University, Guntur - 522502, Andhra Pradesh, India

Abstract


Background/Objectives: Attackers using the anonymity provided in the Internet, by which they are representing themselves as legitimate users/companies and sending fake offers/messages to the users. Objective of this paper is to mitigate phishing attack in email messages by analyzing email contents. Methods/Statistical Analysis: In this paper, we discuss a new server side anti phishing email addon algorithm, by using the properties associated with the hyper-links, which present in emails. The methods we used here are comparison methods, which compare the similarity of the links to the anchor text of that links. Findings: With this algorithm we found a way to mitigate email phishing. Applications/ Improvements: We improved accuracy of the finding phishing mails by checking the http links which are the mail tools to redirect user to the phishing site.

Keywords


Email Messages, Legitimate, Phishing, Threats, URLs.



DOI: https://doi.org/10.17485/ijst%2F2016%2Fv9i19%2F133003