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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0111196
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Phishing Image Spam Classification Research Trends: Survey and Open Issues

Author 1: Ovye John Abari
Author 2: Nor Fazlida Mohd Sani
Author 3: Fatimah Khalid
Author 4: Mohd Yunus Bin Sharum
Author 5: Noor Afiza Mohd Ariffin

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 11 Issue 11, 2020.

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Abstract: A phishing email is an attack that focused com-pletely on people to circumvent existing traditional security algorithms. The email appears to be a dependable, appropriate, and solid communication medium for internet users. At present, the email is submerged with spam content, both in text-based form or undesired text planted inside the images. This study reviews articles on phishing image spam classification published from 2006 to 2020 based on spam classification application domains, datasets, features sets, spam classification methods, and the measurement metrics adopted in the existing studies. More than 50 articles, both from Web of Science and Scopus databases were picked. Achieving the study’s target, we carried out a broad survey and analysis to identify the domains where spam classification was applied. Furthermore, several public data sets, features set, classification methods, and measuring metrics are found and the popular once were pinpointed. The study revealed that Personal Collection, Dredze, and Spam Archives datasets are the most commonly used datasets in image spam classification research. Low-level and image metadata are the most widely used features set. The methods of image spam classification as identified in this study are supervised machine learning, unsu-pervised machine learning, semi-supervised machine learning, content-based and statistical learning. Among these methods, the most commonly utilized is the Support Vector Machine (SVM) which falls under supervised machine learning. This is followed by Na¨ıve Bayes and K-Nearest Neighbor. The commonly adopted metrics for the performance evaluation of the existing image spam classifiers are also identified and briefly discussed. We compared the performance of the state-of-the-art image spam models. Lastly, we pointed out promising directions for future research.

Keywords: Phishing; spam; image spam classification; machine learning; deep learning

Ovye John Abari, Nor Fazlida Mohd Sani, Fatimah Khalid, Mohd Yunus Bin Sharum and Noor Afiza Mohd Ariffin, “Phishing Image Spam Classification Research Trends: Survey and Open Issues” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 11(11), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0111196

@article{Abari2020,
title = {Phishing Image Spam Classification Research Trends: Survey and Open Issues},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0111196},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0111196},
year = {2020},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {11},
number = {11},
author = {Ovye John Abari and Nor Fazlida Mohd Sani and Fatimah Khalid and Mohd Yunus Bin Sharum and Noor Afiza Mohd Ariffin}
}



Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

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