A novel anti-phishing framework based on honeypots

Li, Shujun; Schmitz, Roland

A novel anti-phishing framework based on honeypots

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Date

2009

Authors

Li, Shujun

Schmitz, Roland

Publication type

Contribution to a conference collection

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2009 eCrime Researchers Summit. - IEEE, 2009. - pp. 1-13. - ISBN 978-1-4244-4625-4

Abstract

As a powerful anti-phishing tool, honeypots have been widely used by security service providers and financial institutes to collect phishing mails, so that new phishing sites can be earlier detected and quickly shut down. Another popular use of honeypots is to collect useful information about phishers' activities, which is used to make various kinds of statistics for the purposes of research and forensics. Recently, it has also been proposed to actively feed phishers with honeytokens. In the present paper, we discuss some problems of existing anti-phishing solutions based on honeypots. We propose to overcome these problems by transforming the real e-banking system itself into a honeypot equipped with honeytokens and supported by some other kinds of honeypots. A phishing detector is used to automatically detect suspicious phishers' attempts of stealing money from victims' accounts, and then ask for the potential victims' reconfirmation. This leads to a novel anti-phishing framework based on honeypots. As an indispensable part of the framework, we also propose to use phoneybots, i.e., active honeypots running in virtual machines and mimicking real users' behavior to access the real e-banking system automatically, in order to submit honeytokens to pharmers and phishing malware. The involvement of phoneybots is crucial to fight against advanced phishing attacks such as pharming and malware-based phishing attacks.

Subject (DDC)

004 Computer Science

Keywords

phishing,honeypot,honeytoken,phoneypot,phoneytoken,phoneybot,online banking,money mule

Conference

2009 eCrime Researchers Summit (eCRIME), Sep 20, 2009 - Oct 21, 2009, Tacoma, WA, USA

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LI, Shujun, Roland SCHMITZ, 2009. A novel anti-phishing framework based on honeypots. 2009 eCrime Researchers Summit (eCRIME). Tacoma, WA, USA, Sep 20, 2009 - Oct 21, 2009. In: 2009 eCrime Researchers Summit. IEEE, pp. 1-13. ISBN 978-1-4244-4625-4. Available under: doi: 10.1109/ECRIME.2009.5342609

BibTex

@inproceedings{Li2009-10novel-6020,
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  doi={10.1109/ECRIME.2009.5342609},
  title={A novel anti-phishing framework based on honeypots},
  isbn={978-1-4244-4625-4},
  publisher={IEEE},
  booktitle={2009 eCrime Researchers Summit},
  pages={1--13},
  author={Li, Shujun and Schmitz, Roland}
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