This document discusses the development of a user-friendly and feature-rich appraisal tracker application. The objectives are to implement an appraisal tracker that can detect known phishing attacks as well as unknown ones. Characteristics of phishing hyperlinks are identified, including using IP addresses instead of domain names and visually similar but not identical fake domain names. An anti-phishing algorithm called Link Guard is designed based on these characteristics to detect known and unknown attacks. Link Guard has been implemented for Windows XP and could potentially be expanded to handle cross-site scripting attacks. The required software is listed as Apache Tomcat 5.1, Java, JSP and JDBC. The minimum hardware requirements include a 20GB hard disk

1. Development Of a User Friendly, Feature rich,
Practical Appraisal Tracker
E.Bhanu Prakash Ch.Bhavya V.Prashanthi
09P61A0511 09P61A0514 09P61A0551
Computer Science & Engineering Computer Science & Engineering Computer Science & Engineering
VBIT VBIT VBIT
Objective—Main idea of this project is to implement an • Web server : Apache Tomcat 5.1
appraisal track which works on character based so it can detect
known phishing attacks and also unknown ones. • Languages : Java ,JSP and JDBC
I. ABSTRACT
Phishing is a new word produced from 'fishing', it refers to Hardware Requirements
the act that the attacker allure users to visit a faked Web site by
sending them faked e-mails (or instant messages), and
stealthily get victim's personal information such as user name,
password, and national security ID, etc. The frequently used The minimum hardware requirements are:
attack method is to send e-mails to potential victims, which
seemed to be sent by banks, online organizations, or ISPs. In
these e-mails, they will make up some causes, e.g. the
password of your credit card had been mis-entered for many • Hard disk : 20 GB and above
times, or they are providing upgrading services, to allure you
• RAM : 256 MB and above
visit their web site to conform or modify your account number
and password through the hyperlink provided in the e-mail. If • Processor speed : 1.6 GHz and above
you input the account number and password, the attackers then
successfully collect the information at the server side.
Our analysis identifies that the phishing hyperlinks share III. SCOPE/APPLICATIONS
one or more characteristics as listed below: Characteristics of the hyperlinks that were embedded in
1) The visual link and the actual link are not the same; phishing e-mails are identified. We then design an anti-
2) The attackers often use dotted decimal IP address phishing algorithm, Link Guard, based on the derived
instead of DNS name; characteristics. Since Phishing Guard is characteristic
3) Special tricks are used to encode the hyperlinks based, it can not only detect known attacks, but also is
maliciously. effective to the unknown ones.
4) The attackers often use fake DNS names that are We implement Link Guard for Windows XP. We
similar (but not identical) with the target website. believe that Link Guard is not only useful for detecting
phishing attacks, but also can shield users from malicious
or unsolicited links in Web pages and Instant messages.
II. TECHNOLOGIES USED WITH VERSIONS Our future work includes further extending the Link Guard
Software Requirements algorithm, so that it can handle CSS (cross site scripting)
attacks.
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