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Phishing Websites Detection by Using Optimized Stacking Ensemble Model

Zeyad Ghaleb Al-Mekhlafi1, Badiea Abdulkarem Mohammed1,2,*, Mohammed Al-Sarem3, Faisal Saeed3, Tawfik Al-Hadhrami4, Mohammad T. Alshammari1, Abdulrahman Alreshidi1, Talal Sarheed Alshammari1

1 College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Ha'il, Ha'il, 81481, KSA
2 College of Computer Sciences and Engineering, Hodeidah University, Hodeidah, 967, Yemen
3 College of Computer Science and Engineering, Taibah University, Al-Madinah, 42353, KSA
4 Nottingham Trent University, Mansfield, NG18 5BH, United Kingdom

* Corresponding Author: Badiea Abdulkarem Mohammed. Email: email

Computer Systems Science and Engineering 2022, 41(1), 109-125. https://doi.org/10.32604/csse.2022.020414

Abstract

Phishing attacks are security attacks that do not affect only individuals’ or organizations’ websites but may affect Internet of Things (IoT) devices and networks. IoT environment is an exposed environment for such attacks. Attackers may use thingbots software for the dispersal of hidden junk emails that are not noticed by users. Machine and deep learning and other methods were used to design detection methods for these attacks. However, there is still a need to enhance detection accuracy. Optimization of an ensemble classification method for phishing website (PW) detection is proposed in this study. A Genetic Algorithm (GA) was used for the proposed method optimization by tuning several ensemble Machine Learning (ML) methods parameters, including Random Forest (RF), AdaBoost (AB), XGBoost (XGB), Bagging (BA), GradientBoost (GB), and LightGBM (LGBM). These were accomplished by ranking the optimized classifiers to pick out the best classifiers as a base for the proposed method. A PW dataset that is made up of 4898 PWs and 6157 legitimate websites (LWs) was used for this study's experiments. As a result, detection accuracy was enhanced and reached 97.16 percent.

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APA Style
Al-Mekhlafi, Z.G., Mohammed, B.A., Al-Sarem, M., Saeed, F., Al-Hadhrami, T. et al. (2022). Phishing websites detection by using optimized stacking ensemble model. Computer Systems Science and Engineering, 41(1), 109-125. https://doi.org/10.32604/csse.2022.020414
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Al-Mekhlafi ZG, Mohammed BA, Al-Sarem M, Saeed F, Al-Hadhrami T, Alshammari MT, et al. Phishing websites detection by using optimized stacking ensemble model. Comput Syst Sci Eng. 2022;41(1):109-125 https://doi.org/10.32604/csse.2022.020414
IEEE Style
Z.G. Al-Mekhlafi et al., “Phishing Websites Detection by Using Optimized Stacking Ensemble Model,” Comput. Syst. Sci. Eng., vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 109-125, 2022. https://doi.org/10.32604/csse.2022.020414



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