AI-enabled Phishing Links Detection and Alert System

Innovative Project III

(PROJCS501)
In partial fulfilment for the Degree of
Bachelor of Technology
in
Department of CSE (IOTCSBT)
Submitted by

Nitesh Kumar Thakur

Enrollment no: 22022002017003
Under the Guidence of
Prof. Soumyendu Sekhar

Institute of Engineering and Management

Kolkata, 2023
Review on papers:
Paper - 1
Title of the project AI-enabled Phishing Links Detection and Alert System

Authors Z. Wang, C. Chen, and F. Wang

Publication Journal of Computer Networks and Applications

Year 2022
Objective: To investigate the effectiveness of using deep learning techniques
for phishing website detection, particularly focusing on convolutional neural
networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs).

Methodology: The researchers developed two deep learning models, one

based on CNNs and the other based on RNNs, to analyze the visual and
structural features of websites, respectively. Both models were trained on a
dataset of phishing and legitimate websites and evaluated on their ability to
accurately classify new websites.

Conclusion: Both deep learning models demonstrated promising results in

phishing website detection, achieving accuracies of 97.5% and 96.3% for
CNN and RNN models, respectively. The models effectively captured subtle
visual and structural patterns that distinguish phishing websites from
legitimate ones.
 Title of the project AI-enabled Phishing Links Detection and Alert System
Paper -2

Authors T. Nguyen, V. Nguyen, and D. Tran

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Publisher IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

year 2023
Objective: To design a real-time phishing attack detection system that utilizes
Google AI's TensorFlow runtime to process and analyze network traffic efficiently
for identifying phishing attempts.

Methodology: The researchers developed a lightweight TensorFlow-based real-

time phishing detection system that extracts and analyzes features from network
traffic, such as URLs, domain names, and IP addresses. The system utilizes
various machine learning algorithms and classification techniques to identify
suspicious traffic patterns associated with phishing attacks.

Conclusion: The proposed real-time phishing detection system demonstrated high

accuracy and efficiency in detecting phishing attempts in real-time, achieving a
detection rate of 99.2% and processing over 100,000 packets per second. The
system effectively utilizes Google AI's TensorFlow runtime to handle large
volumes of network traffic and perform real-time classification.
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Paper the Project AI-enabled Phishing Links Detection and Alert System

Authors A. Gupta, B. Srivastava, V. Tyagi, and U. Kumar

Publisher IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Networks

year 2021
Objective: To develop a novel AI-enabled phishing attack detection technique using
machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) to effectively identify and
classify phishing emails.

Methodology: The researchers proposed a hybrid machine learning model that

combines NLP techniques with traditional machine learning algorithms to extract and
analyze linguistic features from emails. The model was trained on a large dataset of
phishing and legitimate emails and evaluated on its ability to accurately classify new
emails.

Conclusion: The proposed hybrid machine learning model demonstrated superior

performance compared to traditional machine learning methods, achieving an accuracy
of 98.2% in classifying phishing emails. The model effectively utilized linguistic
features extracted using NLP techniques to identify subtle cues that distinguish
phishing emails from legitimate ones.
Paper - 4

Title of the project AI-enabled Phishing Links Detection and Alert System

Authors R. Singh, S. Singh, and A. Gupta

Publisher ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

Year 2022
Objective: To explore the potential of using Google AI's BERT (Bidirectional Encoder
Representations from Transformers) language model for detecting phishing SMS
messages, leveraging its ability to understand natural language and context.

Methodology: The researchers developed a BERT-based phishing SMS detection

system that extracts and analyzes linguistic features from SMS messages using BERT's
deep learning architecture. The system was trained on a dataset of phishing and
legitimate SMS messages and evaluated on its ability to accurately classify new SMS
messages.

Conclusion: The BERT-based phishing SMS detection system exhibited promising

results in identifying phishing SMS messages, achieving an accuracy of 95.7%.
BERT's ability to capture contextual information and semantic relationships in text
proved effective in distinguishing phishing SMS messages from legitimate ones.
Paper - 5

Title of the project AI-enabled Phishing Links Detection and Alert System

Authors T. Kim, J. Park, and S. Lee

Publisher IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing

Year 2021
Objective: To investigate the feasibility of using Google AI's TPU (Tensor Processing
Unit) accelerators to enhance the performance of phishing attack detection systems,
particularly in terms of training and inference speed.

Methodology: The researchers implemented a state-of-the-art machine learning model

for phishing attack detection on Google AI's TPU platform and compared its
performance to traditional CPU-based implementations. The model was trained and
evaluated on large datasets of phishing and legitimate emails, websites, and network
traffic.

Conclusion: The use of Google AI's TPU accelerators significantly improved the
performance of the phishing attack detection model, achieving a speedup of over 10
times in training and inference compared to CPU-based implementations. The TPUs'
parallel processing capabilities enabled efficient handling of large-scale data and
complex machine learning algorithms.