Developing a Webpage Phishing Attack Detection Tool

Abstract

Phishing is an identity theft fraud strategy in which users obtain false website links from fraudulent addresses that tend to belong to legitimate and actual companies in order to steal the receiver's personal information. The proposed tool helps users to check the received URLs using the pre-set white-list to determine whether it is legitimate or not. In addition, the tool can test any URL with the database and the results shows that the tool achieved 100% true positive rate and 100% true negative rate. Furthermore, the tool classifies any URL that neither in the database nor is phishing to the URLs in the database as unknown. However, the tool needs to be developed in terms of unknown URLs to be more reliable.