Malicious Web Links Detection Using Ensemble Models

Claudia-Ioana Coste, Anca-Mirela Andreica, Camelia Chira

2023

Abstract

Malicious links are becoming the main propagating vector for web-malware. They may lead to serious security issues, such as phishing, distribution of fake news and low-quality content, drive-by-downloads, and malicious code running. Malware link detection is a challenging domain because of the dynamics of the online environment, where web links and web content are always changing. Moreover, the detection should be fast and accurate enough that it will contribute to a better online experience. The present paper proposes to drive an experimental analysis on machine learning algorithms used in malicious web links detection. The algorithms chosen for analysis are Logistic Regression, Naı̈ve Bayes, Ada Boost, Gradient Boosted Tree, Linear Discriminant Analysis, Multi-layer Perceptron and Support Vector Machine with different kernel types. Our purpose is twofold. First, we compare these single algorithms run individually and calibrate their parameters. Secondly, we chose 10 models and used them in ensemble models. The results of these experiments show that the ensemble models reach higher metric scores than the individual models, improving the maliciousness prediction up to 96% precision.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Coste C., Andreica A. and Chira C. (2023). Malicious Web Links Detection Using Ensemble Models. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST; ISBN 978-989-758-672-9, SciTePress, pages 268-275. DOI: 10.5220/0012180400003584

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist23,
author={Claudia-Ioana Coste and Anca-Mirela Andreica and Camelia Chira},
title={Malicious Web Links Detection Using Ensemble Models},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST},
year={2023},
pages={268-275},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012180400003584},
isbn={978-989-758-672-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST
TI - Malicious Web Links Detection Using Ensemble Models
SN - 978-989-758-672-9
AU - Coste C.
AU - Andreica A.
AU - Chira C.
PY - 2023
SP - 268
EP - 275
DO - 10.5220/0012180400003584
PB - SciTePress