• DocumentCode
    1492882
  • Title

    Phishing Infrastructure Fluxes All the Way

  • Author

    McGrath, D. Kevin ; Kalafut, Andrew ; Gupta, Minaxi

  • Author_Institution
    Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN, USA
  • Volume
    7
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    21
  • Lastpage
    28
  • Abstract
    Fast flux aims to keep phishing and scam campaigns afloat by provisioning a fraudulent Web site´s domain name system records to make the site resolve to numerous, short-lived IP addresses. Although fast flux hurts takedown efforts, it´s possible to detect and defend against it.
  • Keywords
    Internet; Web sites; security of data; fraudulent Web site domain name system records; phishing infrastructure fluxes; scam campaigns; short-lived IP addresses; Domain Name System; DNS; domain name system; fast flux; machine learning; measurement; phishing; support vector machines;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Security & Privacy, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1540-7993
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSP.2009.130
  • Filename
    5280127