Developing a Google Chrome Extension for Detecting Phishing Emails

10 pages•Published: October 4, 2021

Abstract

Phishing is a fraudulent attempt where attackers trick the victims into disclosing sensitive information under pretenses. This research project aims to develop a Google Chrome extension to detect phishing emails. We firstly collected a number of phishing email samples. Then we used text mining techniques to find out the words that are important in phishing emails. Next, we developed a classifier model that the Chrome extension will use to detect phishing emails using those words. The next step was to test the extension with phishing email samples and standard (non-phishing) email samples. After that, the evaluation metrics were collected. We found our extension was able to identify phishing emails and non-phishing emails with a relatively high degree of accuracy.

Keyphrases: Chrome Extension, Classifier, detection, JavaScript, Phishing emails, text mining

In: Frederick C. Harris Jr, Rui Wu and Alexander Redei (editors). Proceedings of ISCA 30th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering, vol 77, pages 13--22

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/RJLM
	https://doi.org/10.29007/hwp7