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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.

Phishing Websites Classification using Hybrid SVM and KNN Approach

Author 1: Altyeb Altaher

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI) : 10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080611

Article Published in International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 8 Issue 6, 2017.

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Abstract: Phishing is a potential web threat that includes mimicking official websites to trick users by stealing their important information such as username and password related to financial systems. The attackers use social engineering techniques like email, SMS and malware to fraud the users. Due to the potential financial losses caused by phishing, it is essential to find effective approaches for phishing websites detection. This paper proposes a hybrid approach for classifying the websites as Phishing, Legitimate or Suspicious websites, the proposed approach intelligently combines the K-nearest neighbors (KNN) algorithm with the Support Vector Machine algorithm (SVM) in two stages. Firstly, the K-NN was utilized as and robust to noisy data and effective classifier. Secondly, the SVM is employed as powerful classifier. The proposed approach integrates the simplicity of KNN with the effectiveness of SVM. The experimental results show that the proposed hybrid approach achieved the highest accuracy of 90.04% when compared with other approaches.

Keywords: information security; phishing websites; Support vector machine; K-nearest neighbors

Altyeb Altaher, “Phishing Websites Classification using Hybrid SVM and KNN Approach” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 8(6), 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080611

@article{Altaher2017,
title = {Phishing Websites Classification using Hybrid SVM and KNN Approach},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080611},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080611},
year = {2017},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {8},
number = {6},
author = {Altyeb Altaher}
}


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