Phishing E-mail Detection with Deep Learning Models

Year 2020, Volume: 13 Issue: 2, 17 - 31, 16.12.2020

Şeydanur Ahi , İbrahim Soğukpınar

Abstract

Social engineering is the art of getting information (deception) from people with using technology or without using technology. The vast majority of the attacks facing today are human origin, and likewise, these attacks target computer users. Human being who is the weakest link in the security chain shows various weaknesses in the security process, due to human being’s variable behavior in different times. Phishing that is a kind of social engineering attack is technically created to capture consumers' financial or personal information. Phishing is the one of the biggest challenges for the e commerce world. Many companies and individuals lose billions of dollars because of phishing attacks. This global impact of phishing attacks will continue to increase therefore, more effective phishing detection techniques need to be developed to reduce threats. A detection method which is created by using deep learning models against phishing email attacks is proposed in this work. Various deep learning models were trained using the features obtained from the head and body parts of incoming e-mails in the proposed method. As a result of the tests, a 96.84% success rate was achieved with this detection method proposed against phishing attacks.

Keywords

Social Engineering Attack, Phishing E-mail Detection, Deep learning, Multi Layer Perceptron , LSTM, Word2Vec.

Derin Öğrenme Modelleri ile Kimlik Avı E-posta Tespiti

Abstract

Sosyal mühendislik, teknolojiyi kullanarak ya da teknolojiyi kullanmadan insanlardan bilgi edinme (aldatma) sanatıdır. Günümüzde karşı karşıya olduğumuz saldırıların çok büyük bir kısmı insan kaynaklıdır ve aynı şekilde sistemleri değil onları kullanan insanları hedef almaktadır. Güvenlik zincirindeki en zayıf halka olan insan, farklı zamanlarda farklı davranışlar sergilemesinden dolayı güvenlik sürecinde çeşitli zafiyetler gösterebilmektedir. Kimlik avı teknik olarak tüketicilerin finansal veya kişisel bilgilerini ele geçirmek için oluşturulmuş bir tür sosyal mühendislik saldırısıdır. Kimlik avı bugün e-ticaret dünyasının karşılaştığı en büyük zorluklardan biridir. Kimlik avı saldırıları yüzünden birçok şirket ve birey milyarlarca dolar kaybetmektedir. Kimlik avı saldırılarının bu küresel etkisi artmaya devam edecektir ve bu nedenle tehditleri azaltmak için daha etkili kimlik avı algılama tekniklerinin geliştirilmesi gerekmektedir. Bu çalışmada, kimlik avı e-posta saldırılarına karşı derin öğrenme modelleri kullanılarak oluşturulan bir tespit yöntemi önerilmiştir. Önerilen yöntemde gelen e-posta iletilerinin başlık ve gövde bölümlerinden elde edilen özellikler kullanılarak çeşitli derin öğrenme modelleri eğitilmiştir. Yapılan testler sonucunda kimlik avı saldırılarına karşı önerilen bu tespit yöntemi %96,84’lük bir başarı oranı elde edilmiştir.

Keywords

Sosyal Mühendislik Saldırısı, Oltalama E-Posta Tespiti, Derin öğrenme, Çok Katmanlı Algılayıcı, LSTM, Word2Vec

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