Using Syntactic Features for Phishing Detection
This is an incremental study for cybersecurity applications, aiming to improve email filtering by identifying phishing attempts.
The paper tackled phishing detection by comparing syntactic features like subjects and objects of verbs between phishing and legitimate emails, finding that these features are useful for some verbs but require more work for others.
This paper reports on the comparison of the subject and object of verbs in their usage between phishing emails and legitimate emails. The purpose of this research is to explore whether the syntactic structures and subjects and objects of verbs can be distinguishable features for phishing detection. To achieve the objective, we have conducted two series of experiments: the syntactic similarity for sentences, and the subject and object of verb comparison. The results of the experiments indicated that both features can be used for some verbs, but more work has to be done for others.