This project focuses on developing a machine learning solution for detecting phishing domains. Phishing, a prevalent form of cyber fraud, involves attackers impersonating reputable entities to obtain sensitive information. The primary goal is to predict whether domains are real or malicious, thereby enhancing cybersecurity measures.
The challenge lies in differentiating between legitimate and malicious domains. Traditional machine learning tasks such as data exploration, cleaning, feature engineering, model building, and testing are employed to address this issue.
- Paper Link: Phishing Websites Dataset
- Dataset Link: Mendeley Dataset
The project employs various machine learning algorithms tailored to the problem at hand. Feature engineering includes URL-based, domain-based, page-based, and content-based features.
- Cloud platform Amazon ec2 instance is used for hosting the solution.
- Python logging library is employed for logging every action performed by the code.
- Complete solution design strategies High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) documents.