Comparison of machine learning techniques for classification of phishing web sites

dc.contributor.authorKalayci, TE
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T11:46:31Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T11:46:31Z
dc.description.abstractToday, machine learning approaches are used to make computers act more accurately for various purpose. In this manner, one area in which the machine learning approaches are used is the detection of phishing web sites. Phishing is an online threat which depends on creating a fake web site that mimics a trustworthy web site to steal important personal information. It is important to predict whether a website is a phishing website in order to avoid this danger before it happens. In this study, AdaBoost multilayer perceptron, support vector machine, decision tree, k-nearest neighbors, Naive Bayes and random forest machine learning techniques are compared to predict the purpose of a website. This comparison is performed by experimenting over a dataset containing 1353 instances with 9 different features. The experimental evaluation is performed in two different settings. The first setting based on splitting the data into training and test sets. In this setting the evaluation results show that the random forest algorithm, which is an ensemble learning approach based on decision trees, outperforms other compared approaches. On the other hand, in the second setting based on cross validation, multilayer perceptron shows a better performance.
dc.identifier.issn1300-7009
dc.identifier.other2147-5881
dc.identifier.urihttp://akademikarsiv.cbu.edu.tr:4000/handle/123456789/2783
dc.language.isoTurkish
dc.publisherPAMUKKALE UNIV
dc.titleComparison of machine learning techniques for classification of phishing web sites
dc.typeArticle

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