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In the field of information security, phishing URLs detection and prevention has recently become egregious. For detecting, phishing attacks several anti-phishing systems have already been proposed by researchers. The performance of those systems can be affected due to the lack of proper selection of machine learning classifiers along with the types of feature sets. A details investigation on machine learning classifiers (KNN, DT, SVM, RF, ERT and GBT) along with three publicly available datasets with multidimensional feature sets have been presented on this paper. The performance of the classifiers has been evaluated by confusion matrix, precision, recall, F1-score, accuracy and misclassification rate. The best output obtained from Random Forest and Extremely Randomized Tree with dataset one and three (binary class feature set) of 97% and 98% accuracy accordingly. In multiclass feature set (dataset two), Gradient Boosting Tree provides highest performance with 92% accuracy.
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Rahman, S.S.M.M., Rafiq, F.B., Toma, T.R., Hossain, S.S., Biplob, K.B.B. (2020). Performance Assessment of Multiple Machine Learning Classifiers for Detecting the Phishing URLs. In: Raju, K.S., Senkerik, R., Lanka, S.P., Rajagopal, V. (eds) Data Engineering and Communication Technology. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1079. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1097-7_25
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