Title :
Phishing Infrastructure Fluxes All the Way
Author :
McGrath, D. Kevin ; Kalafut, Andrew ; Gupta, Minaxi
Author_Institution :
Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN, USA
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;
Journal_Title :
Security & Privacy, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSP.2009.130
