Phishing Detection

Project at Naver Campus Hack Day 2017

Overview

This is a phishing site detection system that accepts URL as an argument and returns a string value describing whether the website is a phishing site or not.

Project structure

hackday.py

Contains the main function for the system designed for Hack Day. hackday.py communicates with a temporary API designed for Hack Day, and therefore will not work past 2017/06/10.

phishing_detection.py

Contains the main function for the system that removes all dependencies from Hack Day.

Evaluation method

• Effectiveness and appropriateness of algorithms used to detect phishing sites.
• Accuracy of system
  • True positive
  • False positive
  • True negative
  • False negative

Language

The code is written in python 2.7. Please check the requirements for dependencies.