phishing-website-detection-content-based

This is an End-to-End Machine Learning Project which focuses on phishing websites to classify phishing and legitimate ones. Particularly, I focused on content-based features like html tag based features. You can find feature extraction, data collection, preparation process here. Also, building ML models, evaluating them are available here.

inputs

• csv files of phishing and legitimate URLs
  • verified_online.csv --> phishing websites URLs from phishtank.org
  • tranco_list.csv --> legitimate websites URLs from tranco-list.eu

general flow

• Use csv file to get URLs
• Send a request to each URL and receive a response by requests library of python
• Use the content of response and parse it by BeautifulSoup module
• Extract features and create a vector which contains numerical values for each feature
• Repeat feature extraction process for all content\websites and create a structured dataframe
• Add label at the end to the dataframes | 1 for phishing 0 for legitimate
• Save the dataframe as csv and structured_data files are ready!
  • Check "structured_data_legitimate.csv" and "structured_data_phishing.csv" files.
• After obtaining structured data, you can use combine them and use them as train and test data
• You can split data as train and test like in the machine_learning.py first part, or you can implement K-fold cross-validation like in the second part of the same file. I implemented K-fold as K=5.
• Then I implemented five different ML models:
  • Support Vector Machine
  • Gaussian Naive Bayes
  • Decision Tree
  • Random Forest
  • AdaBoost
• You can obtain the confusion matrix, and performance measures: accuracy, precision, recall
• Finally, I visualized the performance measures for all models.
  • Naive Bayes is the best for my case.

important notes

• features are content-based and need BeautifulSoup module's methods and fields etc So, you should install it.
• this code is an output of a video series on the YouTube --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Aldptec9Xs&list=PL8Uzrd8g1md8kdvNJy0BNRc3cJfVP8QEf

dataset

• with your URL list, you can create your own dataset by using data_collector python file.

NOTE

• Machine Learnining files will be added after the videos are uploaded!