Email phishing attack mitigation using server side email addon

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.