Using Syntactic Features for Phishing Detection
Project Members
Students: Gilchan Park / Advisor: Julia M. Taylor
Students: Gilchan Park / Advisor: Julia M. Taylor
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to explore whether the syntactic structures and subjects and objects of verbs can be distinguishable features for phishing detection. To achieve the objective, we have conducted two series of experiments: the syntactic similarity for sentences, and the subject and object of verb comparison. The results of the experiments indicated that both features can be used for some verbs, but more work has to be done for others. The phishing corpora is comprised of old and up-to-date phishing emails, and the gap between them is over 10 years. To observe whether the pattern in phishing emails have changed over time with respect to subject and object of the verbs, we additionally compared between the two phishing corpora. The results showed us that most of subjects and objects were still identical, or similar from semantic perspective.