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Feature Based Approach for Detection of Smishing Messages in the Mobile Environment

Feature Based Approach for Detection of Smishing Messages in the Mobile Environment

Ankit Kumar Jain, B. B. Gupta
Copyright: © 2019 |Volume: 12 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 19
ISSN: 1938-7857|EISSN: 1938-7865|EISBN13: 9781522564751|DOI: 10.4018/JITR.2019040102
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Jain, Ankit Kumar, and B. B. Gupta. "Feature Based Approach for Detection of Smishing Messages in the Mobile Environment." JITR vol.12, no.2 2019: pp.17-35. http://doi.org/10.4018/JITR.2019040102

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Jain, A. K. & Gupta, B. B. (2019). Feature Based Approach for Detection of Smishing Messages in the Mobile Environment. Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR), 12(2), 17-35. http://doi.org/10.4018/JITR.2019040102

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Jain, Ankit Kumar, and B. B. Gupta. "Feature Based Approach for Detection of Smishing Messages in the Mobile Environment," Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR) 12, no.2: 17-35. http://doi.org/10.4018/JITR.2019040102

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Abstract

Smishing is a security attack that is performed by sending a fake message intending to steal personal credentials of mobile users. Nowadays, smishing attack becomes popular due to the massive growth of mobile users. The smishing message is very harmful since its target to financial benefits. In this article, the authors present a new feature-based approach to detect smishing messages in the mobile environment. This approach offers ten novel features that distinguish the fake messages from the ham messages. In this article, the authors have also identified the nineteen most suspicious keywords, which are used by the attacker to lure victims. This article has implemented these features on benchmarked dataset and applied numerous classification algorithms to judge the performance of the proposed approach. Experimental outcomes indicate that proposed approach can detect smishing messages with the 94.20% true positive rate and 98.74% overall accuracy. Furthermore, the proposed approach is very efficient for the detection of the zero hour attack.

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