2007 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Detecting Phishing E-mails by Heterogeneous Classification
Authors : M. Dolores del Castillo, Angel Iglesias, J. Ignacio Serrano
Published in: Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL 2007
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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This paper presents a system for classifying e-mails into two categories, legitimate and fraudulent. This classifier system is based on the serial application of three filters: a Bayesian filter that classifies the textual content of e-mails, a rule- based filter that classifies the non grammatical content of e-mails and, finally, a filter based on an emulator of fictitious accesses which classifies the responses from websites referenced by links contained in e-mails. This system is based on an approach that is hybrid, because it uses different classification methods, and also integrated, because it takes into account all kind of data and information contained in e-mails. This approach aims to provide an effective and efficient classification. The system first applies fast and reliable classification methods, and only when the resulting classification decision is imprecise does the system apply more complex analysis and classification methods.