EM-PAD: An Effective Mechanism for Phishing Attack Detection

In the present era, the increasing number of network devices and ubiquitous computing leads to the flow of enormous amounts of data traffic, including sensitive and confidential information, on the internet and carrying out commercial and banking transactions online. This gives cybercriminals an opportunity to launch an attack like phishing to steal confidential information from the user and gain unauthorized access. This can be mitigated by the help of an intelligent machine learning-based phishing detection system, which can detect potential phishing attacks and take appropriate action. In this paper, we have addressed this major cyber issue and proposed a machine learning-based phishing detection scheme (in short, EM-PAD), which is trained on a benchmark dataset and evaluated on standard metrics: F1-score and Accuracy. The proposed model is compared with different existing schemes based on Accuracy, indicating that it has outperformed them with remarkable results.