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Anticipating Hidden Text Salting in Emails

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Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2008)

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Salting is the intentional addition or distortion of content, aimed to evade automatic filtering. Salting is usually found in spam emails. Salting can also be hidden in phishing emails, which aim to steal personal information from users. We present a novel method that detects hidden salting tricks as visual anomalies in text. We solely use these salting tricks to successfully classify emails as phishing (F-measure >90%).

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  1. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

    Christina Lioma, Marie-Francine Moens, Juan-Carlos Gomez & Jan De Beer

  2. Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany

    Andre Bergholz & Gerhard Paass

  3. Symantec, Ireland

    Patrick Horkan

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  1. Christina Lioma
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Lioma, C. et al. (2008). Anticipating Hidden Text Salting in Emails . In: Lippmann, R., Kirda, E., Trachtenberg, A. (eds) Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection. RAID 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5230. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87403-4_24

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