AN EFFICIENT ALGORITHM TO IDENTIFY PHISHING SITES USING URL DOMAIN FEATURES

Abstract

People are using internet for all their day to day activities like shopping, banking, mailing etc. The term phishing is a kind of spoofing website which is used to steal important information. There is a fortune to steal all our personal data by doing something as fraudulent. So there is a need of efficient prevention mechanism to find out the phishing webpage among the legitimate web pages. This paper proposes a study on identifying phishing websites by developing an effective algorithm with domain features of URL. This algorithm is used to overcome the difficulty and complexity of detecting phishing websites which looks exactly like an original websites.