A PageRank based detection technique for phishing web sites

Phishing is an attempt to acquire one's information without user's knowledge by tricking him by making similar kind of website or sending emails to user which looks like legitimate site or email. Phishing is a social cyber threat attack, which is causing severe loss of economy to the user, due to phishing attacks online transaction users are declining. This paper aims to design and implement a new technique to detect phishing web sites using Google's PageRank. Google gives a PageRank value to each site in the web. This work uses the PageRank value and other features to classify phishing sites from normal sites. We have collected a dataset of 100 phishing sites and 100 legitimate sites for our use. By using this Google PageRank technique 98% of the sites are correctly classified, showing only 0.02 false positive rate and 0.02 false negative rate.