PREVENTING FROM PHISHING ATTACK BY IMPLEMENTING URL PATTERN MATCHING TECHNIQUE IN WEB

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International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology (IJCIET) Volume 8, Issue 9, September 2017, pp. 1200 1208, Article ID: IJCIET_08_09_135 Available online at http://http://www.iaeme.

1 International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology (IJCIET) Volume 8, Issue 9, September 2017, pp , Article ID: IJCIET_08_09_135 Available online at ISSN Print: and ISSN Online: IAEME Publication Scopus Indexed PREVENTING FROM PHISHING ATTACK BY IMPLEMENTING URL PATTERN MATCHING TECHNIQUE IN WEB U. Rahamathunnisa A.P (Sr), SITE, VIT University, Vellore N. Manikandan A.P (SG), SITE, VIT University, Vellore U. Senthil Kumaran Associate Professor, VIT University, Vellore C. Niveditha Student, MCA, VIT University, Vellore ABSTRACT Phishing is an effort to get personal information like username, password and bank transaction details in order to hack our personal accounts, by hiding original sites in a web browser. Existing detection process uses a content based processing method to find the phishing attacks. This approach finds web spoofing by checking the matches between the original and spoofed web sites. Original site often change their websites for marketing purpose so the pattern of original websites need to be updated frequently which is not feasible. We propose a scheme which detects phishing attack by matching the user requested URLs with a database of blacklist and whitelist. The backlist holds the attack URL patterns and the white list hold the original URL patterns. We also create a user interaction based process to get approval of vulnerable URL and create a direct block list to detect the phishing attacks Keywords: Phishing attack, Hacking, URL Matching, Blacklist Cite this Article: U. Rahamathunnisa, N. Manikandan, U. Senthil Kumaran and C. Niveditha, Preventing from Phishing Attack by implementing URL Pattern Matching Technique in Web, International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology, 8(9), 2017, pp editor@iaeme.com

2 U. Rahamathunnisa, N. Manikandan, U. Senthil Kumaran and C. Niveditha 1. INTRODUCTION Attackers used to provide a copy websites similar to the original websites in order to get the personal information of the user without their knowledge. The hackers used to create a fake websites which resembles like original websites and the attackers view and update or change any information from the personal accounts. This paper proposes identification of phishing websites using uniform resource locators (URLs) matching of the webpages. The proposed solution can find the difference between the genuine and virtually same web pages by matching the uniform resource locators (URLs) of suspicious webpages. Based on some features the URLs are examined to detect a phishing websites. After the attack is discovered, it is recorded for avoidance. The extracted conclusion proves that the discovered technique able to find the different types of phishing attacks. Phishing attack can be in any one of the following 1. Phishing attack is a procedure of getting client data 2. Phishing attack may show up in many sorts of correspondence structures, for example, informing, SMS, VOIP and fraudster messages. 3. Users regularly have numerous client accounts on different sites including interpersonal organization and s. 4. Getting client data and certifications may give full access to their records and the hackers can do anything they need. Phishing attack happens normally to hack the users credentials by making them to believe that they are the original websites. The anomalies are captured and the phishing attacks are detected in [1].Phishing is a huge issue which can separate individual data including wrong and sites. In[2], phishing is detected by using TF-IDF algorithm. This algorithm counts the number of times a particular word appears in the document. It also measures the importance of a particular term in the whole document. A heuristic based phishing attack is identified in [3], where the results are displayed as -1, if a phishing attack is detected. The results are 1 for undetected phishing attack. [4] Analyzed case study on phishing attacks over the web servers and content management systems. [5] Discusses about need for an open source software for security purpose. Anti-phishing algorithm is proposed in [6] where hyperlink characteristics are used for identifying the attack. This algorithm differentiates the actual link with the visual link and finds for the match with the known websites.[7] have proposed a method for phishing attack detection and prevention. In this method, hyperlink feature are used to detect the attack and a digital signature method is adapted for the prevention of this attack. Anti -Phishing attack for mobile phones have been discussed in [8]. 2. PROPOSED WORK We detect phishing attach by matching the user URL request with a database of blacklist and whitelist. The backlists hold the attack URL design and the white list hold the genuine URL design. When use a pattern based matching process to find the attacker URL. Our process runs at the backend of the browser it validate each and every request made by the users. 2.1 SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE Figure 1 depicts the system architecture of phishing attack. The user search for a website they are in need for with the help of the browser and the browser sends the user requested content to the request manager and then the request manager search for the specified content in the internet and send back the result to the request manager then the request manager send the html content to the html parser to detect the phishing sites. Here, the html parser will filter all editor@iaeme.com

3 Preventing from Phishing Attack by implementing URL Pattern Matching Technique in Web the anchor tags for the html content and send it to the URL validator, this URL validator concurrently checks the given URL with the whitelist and blacklist URL database that is whether the URL is present in the blacklist or not if it is present then the corresponding notification is send to the browser for the user view.so that user can be aware of the phishing sites. Figure 1 System Architecture Diagram The descriptions of the methodology used in the proposed system are given below. Html processor module is used by the system to validate each website content to find vulnerable URL. When a request is made to a website, server send the Html content to the browser. System check all anchor tags <a> to fetch it s the link source which direct users to external websites. Our system considers it a vulnerable URL and forward the request details to the next process. After finding the suspicious URL from the websites our system uses the URL Validator module to analyses the URL.If any thread is found then the system notifies the users with a warning symbol indicating the URL. URL validate uses a set of URL patterns extracted from the blacklist and whitelist to find the phishing websites. Each pattern in the black list and white list is matched with the current requested URL. If any pattern is matched with the current URL then the request URL is considered phishing website URL. Request handler is responsible to initiate the detection process to find the phishing website. If the URL is detected as vulnerable after applying the URL validation process the URL is considered phishing URL and added to the black list. Else users are prompt with to take a decisions on the URL. The white list contains URL which is not suspicious. We use a feedback based detection scheme to find the phishing URL which improves the efficiency of the detection process editor@iaeme.com

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION STEP 1:- If user wants to access a

safely they can go for this Anti-phishing attack login form.

there is any external links in the web page you can go for a

4 U. Rahamathunnisa, N. Manikandan, U. Senthil Kumaran and C. Niveditha 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION STEP 1:- If user wants to access a websites or their personal accounts through any web browser safely they can go for this Anti-phishing attack login form. If you have not yet registered, register by entering into the registration form. SIGN UP PAGE STEP 2:- After a successful login you can access a websites you need for. STEP 3:- After entering a website if you want to check whether there is any external links in the web page you can go for a DETECT button in the form because always a phishing websites comes under an external links. Internal links are identified by External links are identified by editor@iaeme.com

Preventing from Phishing Attack by implementing

we want to see all the URLs of the web page we

STEP 5:- If user noticed any phishing website it

5 Preventing from Phishing Attack by implementing URL Pattern Matching Technique in Web STEP 4:- If we want to see all the URLs of the web page we can see URL button and we can check an authority domain name and sub-domain name of that particular URL. STEP 5:- If user noticed any phishing website it can be added to a blacklist database editor@iaeme.com

U. Rahamathunnisa, N. Manikandan, U. Senthil Kumaran and C. Niveditha STEP 6:- We can also view the URLs in the blacklist database by clicking view blacklist button.

6 U. Rahamathunnisa, N. Manikandan, U. Senthil Kumaran and C. Niveditha STEP 6:- We can also view the URLs in the blacklist database by clicking view blacklist button. STEP 7:- We can also view the whitelist table from the database. STEP 8:- Phishing sites detection steps. Phishing sites are detected by cross mark editor@iaeme.com

7 Preventing from Phishing Attack by implementing URL Pattern Matching Technique in Web STEP 9:- Detection of phishing attack in

8 U. Rahamathunnisa, N. Manikandan, U. Senthil Kumaran and C. Niveditha STEP 10:- Phishing link from the mail is detected. 4. CONCLUSION Existing systems content based approached are not effective because attackers fishing sites are not similar to that of the original websites. So we detect phishing attack by matching the user URL request with a database of blacklist which proved to be effective. We also checked whether the user is requesting the URL directly or it is a redirect from the other website. We also process the process the URL of the redirecting site and the current website URL editor@iaeme.com

9 Preventing from Phishing Attack by implementing URL Pattern Matching Technique in Web REFERENCES [1] Ying Pan and Xuhua Ding, Anomaly Based Web Phishing Page Detection, IEEE Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'06), [2] Yue Zhang, Jason Hong and Lorrie Cranor, CANTINA: A Content-Based Approach to Detecting Phishing Web Sites, Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web, May [3] Chou, N., R. Ledesma, Y. Teraguchi, D. Boneh, and J. C. Mitchell. Client-Side Defense against Web-Based Identity Theft. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '04). [4] Marie Vasek, John Wadleigh, and Tyler Moore, Hacking Is Not Random: A Case-Control Study of Webserver-Compromise Risk, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Vol. 13, No. 2, [5] J.H. Hoepman and B. Jacobs, Increased security through open source, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 50, No. 1, 2007, pp [6] Chen, J., Guo, C.: Online Detection and Prevention of Phishing Attacks. In: IEEE Communications and Networking, China Com 2006, pp [7] Shamal M. Firake, Pravin Soni and B. B. Meshram, Tool for Prevention and Detection of Phishing Attacks, International Conference on Network Security and Applications, 2011,pp [8] Longfei Wu, Xiaojiang Du and Jie Wu, Effective Defense Schemes for Phishing Attacks on Mobile Computing Platforms, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 65, No. 8, [9] N. Chandra Sekhar Reddy, Dr. Purna Chandra Rao, Dr. A. Govardhan, An Efficient Anti Phishing Framework based on Dynamic Captcha. International Journal of Computer Engineering and Technology, 7(6), 2016, pp [10] Ulka M. Bansode, Prof. Gauri R. Rao, Dr. S. H. Patil, Detection of Phishing E-Commerce Websites Using Visual Cryptography, International Journal of Computer Engineering & Technology (IJCET), Volume 4, Issue 5, September October (2013), pp editor@iaeme.com

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