A Novel Approach to Detect Web Page Tampering

Abstract

—Recently it was observed that some contents of the web pages are tampered by malicious users for their own benefits such as injecting advertisement or vulgar materials. Malicious user also tries to alter the contents in order to misguide the end user. Maintaining the integrity of these web pages has become a tedious job for the law enforcement agencies. This paper gives bird eye over the web page tampering and its side effects, importance of log file in the detection of web page tampering. It also presents a framework to detect tampered web pages based on log file analysis approach effectively. To achieve this, first log files are converted into XML format and then tamper web pages are tagged.