Survey on Malicious Web Pages Detection Techniques

Abstract

The World Wide Web has become an inseparable part of millions of people who use online services e.g. online banking, online shopping, social networking, e-commerce, and store and manage user sensitive information, etc. In fact, it is a popular tool for any class of user over the Internet. Rich Web based applications are available over the World Wide Web to provide such types of services. At the same time, the Web has become an important means for people to interact with each other and do business. This is the positive side of this technology. Unfortunately, the Web has also become a more dangerous place. The popularity of World Wide Web has also attracted intruders and attackers. These intruders abuse the Internet and users by performing illegitimate activity for financial profit. The Web pages that contain such types of attacks or malicious code are called as malicious Web pages. While the existing approaches are good indicators in detecting malicious Web pages, there are still open issues in Web page features selection and detection techniques. In this paper, we are giving an extensive survey of existing malicious Web pages detection approaches and features they have used.