DeMalFier: Detection of Malicious web pages using an effective classifier

The web has become an indispensable global platform that glues together daily communication, sharing, trading, collaboration and service delivery. Web users often store and manage critical information that attracts cybercriminals who misuse the web and the internet to exploit vulnerabilities for illegitimate benefits. Malicious web pages are transpiring threatening issue over the internet becaus

ReP-ETD: A Repetitive Preprocessing technique for Embedded Text Detection from images in spam emails

Email service proves to be a convenient and powerful communication tool. As internet continues to grow, the type of information available to user has shifted from text only to multimedia enriched. Embedded text in multimedia content is one of the prevalent means for delivering messages to content viewers. With the increasing importance of emails and the incursions of internet marketers, spam has become a major problem and has given rise to unwanted mails. Spammers are continuously adopting new techniques to evade detection. Image spam is one such technique where in embedded text within images carries the main information of the spam message instead of text based spam. Currently, image spam is evaluated to be roughly 50% of all spam traffic and is still on the rise, thus a serious research issue. Filtering mails is one of the popular approaches used to block spam mails. This work proposes new model ReP-ETD (Repetitive Pre-processing technique for Embedded Text Detection) for efficiently and accurately detecting spam in email images. The performance of the proposed ReP-ETD model has been evaluated across the identified parameters and compared with other existing models. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model

Detection of fraudulent and malicious websites by analysing user reviews for online shopping websites

Recently, the web has become a crucial worldwide platform for online shopping. People go online to sell and buy products, use online banking facilities and even give opinions about their online shopping experience. People with malicious intent may be involved in any online transaction with a fraudulent e-business give fake positive reviews that actually does not exist to promote or degrade the product. User reviews are extremely essential for decision making and at the same time cannot be reliable. In this paper, we propose a novel method Bayesian logistic regression classifier (BLRFier) that detects fraudulent and malicious websites by analysing user reviews for online shopping websites. We have built our own dataset by crawling reviews of benign and malicious e-shopping websites to apply supervised learning techniques. Experimental evaluation of BLRFier model achieved 100% accuracy signifying the