Phishing Alarm

Abstract

Phishing is a type of social engineering attack where the attacker tries to imitate the original website to steal the user's sensitive data like login credentials, credit card numbers SSN numbers, etc. The attacker lures the victim to enter his personal data by masquerading as original website. The information is then used to access important accounts and can result in identity theft and financial loss. No specific solution is implemented till date to counter the phishing attacks effectively. In this paper we exploit the visual similarity features like CSS of html document and the discrepancy between the claimed domain of the suspicious web page and the benign web page to detect a phishing attack.