A NEW ENSEMBLE

MODEL FOR PHISHING

DETECTION BASED ON
HYBRID CUMULATIVE
FEATURE SELECTION
Project analysis slide Md.
2 Sirajum Munir Prince
sirajummunirprince@gmail.com

Asib Hasan
asibhasan.cse@gmail.com

Faisal Muhammad Shah

faisal505@yahoo.com

Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology

Dhaka, Bangladesh

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 ABSTRACT
In this research a majority vote based ensemble type phishing detection system is proposed using
five machine learning classifiers with a hybrid feature selection method as pre-processing using five
search techniques with the following procedures :

1. Feature selection by wrapper approach using three search techniques:

 Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
 Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC)
 Chi Square
 Gain Ratio
 Information Gain
2. Building up majority vote based ensemble type classification models, using five base classifiers:
 Naive Bayes (NB)
 Support Vector Machine (SVM)
 Decision Tree (C4.5,Jrip, PART)
 K-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN)
 Random Forrest (RF)
3. Classification of test instances using majority vote with it’s base classifiers.

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 OBJECTIVE

 Evolving knowledge on machine learning approaches applied in phishing detection systems.

 Making a hybrid type of feature selection methodology.

 Making an ensemble type of classification framework.

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 WORK FLOW DIAGRAM

Dataset Feature Selection

Output Classification

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 METHODOLOGY

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 PHASE - 01
Dataset

Filter Model 1 Filter Model 2 Filter Model 3 ͙͙ ͘ ͘ ͘ Filter Model N

FS1,1 FS2,1 FS3,1 FSn,1

FS1,2 FS2,2 FS3,2 FSn,2

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FS1,n FS2,n FS3,n FSn,n

Phase - 02

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 PHASE - 02
Phase - 01

Classifier 1 Classifier 2 Classifier 3 ͙͙ ͘ ͘ ͘ Classifier N

Majority Voting
Majority Voting
on Reduced
on Full Feature
Feature Set
Set Classifier
Classifier

Result

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 MAJORITY VOTING

 Simplest and most instinctive ensemble compound techniques.

 Ensemble method could not make a stable prediction.

 A series of votes.

 To achieve the final result.

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 DATASET

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 Phishing Dataset for Machine Learning
Number of Instances: 10000
Number of Attributes: 48
Data Set Characteristics: Multivariate
Attribute Characteristics: Integer
Associated Tasks: Classification
Missing attribute: None
Phishing webpage sources: PhishTank, OpenPhish
Legitimate webpage sources: Alexa, Common Crawl

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 SIMULATION RESULT ANALYSIS

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 Assessment of Top Feature Subsets

Chi Square Information Gain

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 Assessment of Top Feature Subsets

Gain Ratio PCA

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 Assessment of Top Feature Subsets

PCC Random Forest

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 ROC Curve

 Receiver Operating Characteristic

 False Positive Rate to the x-axis, True Positive

Rate to the y-axis

 Closer to 1 tends to better

ROC Curve
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 Performance Comparison Between Top-n Feature Subset and Full Feature Subset
Model Name Number of Features Accuracy(%)
Random Forest 32 98.36
Random Forest 48 98.27
Support Vector Machine 44 94.01
Support Vector Machine 48 93.97
Naïve Bayes 41 85.78
Naïve Bayes 48 85.26
C4.5 42 97.53
C4.5 48 91.11
JRip 48 97.35
PART 41 97.59
PART 48 97.48
KNN 31 96.42
KNN 35 95.23
KNN 48 95.26
PDCFS 48 98.24
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 Average Runtime for Classification Per Sample

Model Name Runtime(sec)

Chi-Square 2.24
Gain Ratio 1.85
Information Gain 2.29
Pearson Correlation Coefficient 2.32
Principal Components Analysis 2.5
PDCFS 20.21

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 Performance Benchmarking

Model Name Number of Features Accuracy(%)

HEFS 48 96.17
HEFS 10 94.60
FACA 30 92.40
Random Forrest 32 98.36
PDCFS 48 98.24

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 CONCLUSION

 Obtain best accuracy using least feature number

 Reduce the run-time

 Work on real-time data

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