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Modelling of an Adaptive Network Model for Phishing Website Detection Using Learning Approaches

  Aldo Tenis 1 * ,   Santhosh R. 2

1  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Karpagam Academy of Higher Education, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
    (aldoteni@gmail.com)

2  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Karpagam Academy of Higher Education, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
    (santhoshrd@gmail.com)


Doi   :   https://doi.org/10.54216/FPA.120213

Received: January 25, 2023 Revised: April 16, 2023 Accepted: June 17, 2023

Abstract :

Phishing links are spread via text messages, social media platforms, and email by phishing attackers. Social engineering skills are used to visit phishing websites to trick the users and enter critical information related to personal data. The confidential data is stolen to defraud legitimate financial institutions or general websites for illegally attaining the benefits. Many machine learning-based solutions are in the enhancements and the technology of machine learning applications to detect the suggested phishing. The rules are used for a solution which depends on the extracted features, and few features require to lies on the services of third-party that, creating time-consuming and instability in the service of prediction. A deep learning-based framework is suggested to detect website of phishing. A framework is established to determine if there is a risk of phishing in real-time during the web page is visited by the user to give a message of warming by the browser plug-in. The prediction service in real-time merges the various techniques for enhancing the accuracy to lower the fake alarm rates and the time of computation which has the filtering whitelist, interception of the blacklist, and prediction of deep learning (DL). Various models of deep learning are compared using the different datasets in the module of machine learning prediction. The greatest accuracy is obtained as 99.18% by the adaptive Recurrent Neural Networks (a−RNN) model from the results of experiments to demonstrate the suggested feasibility solution.

Keywords :

Phishing; legitimate; deep learning; prediction; false alarm rate

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