This document discusses phishing, which is an attempt to acquire personal information like usernames, passwords, and credit card details under false pretenses. It covers common phishing techniques like link manipulation and website forgery. It also discusses types of phishing like deceptive, malware-based, and DNS-based phishing. The document outlines causes of phishing like misleading emails and lack of user awareness. It proposes both technical and social approaches to anti-phishing and examines the effects of phishing like identity theft and financial loss. Finally, it recommends defenses like education and detection tools to counter phishing attacks.

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Er. Sadik Khan Pankaj Yadav
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Phishing

2. Content
 Introduction
 Phishing Techniques
 Phishing Examples
 Types of Phishing
 Causes of Phishing
 Anti Phishing
 Effects of Phishing
 Defend against Phishing Attacks
 Conclusion
 Reference

3. Introduction
 Phishing is the act of attempting to acquire
information such as username, password and credit
card details as a trustworthy entity in an electronic
communication.
 Communications purporting to be from popular social
web sites ,auction sites, online payment process or IT
administrators are commonly used to lure the
unsuspecting public .Phishing emails may contain
links to websites that are infected with malware.

4. Phishing Techniques
 LINK MANIPULATION

5. Phishing Techniques
 FILTER EVASION : (By Pass cheat code)

6. Phishing Techniques
WEBSITE FORGERY : Some phishing scams use JavaScript commands
in order to alter the address bar. This is done either by placing a picture of a
legitimate URL over the address bar, or by closing the original bar and
opening up a new one with the legitimate URL

7. Phishing Techniques
PHONE PHISHING :

8. Phishing Examples
 In this example, targeted at South Trust Bank users, the phisher
has used an image to make it harder for anti-phishing filters to
detect by scanning for text commonly used in phishing emails.

9. Phishing Examples

10. Types of Phishing
 Deceptive - Sending a deceptive email, in bulk, with a “call
to action” that demands the recipient click on a link.
 Malware-Based - Running malicious software on the
user’s machine. Various forms of malware-based phishing are
:
 Key Loggers & Screen Loggers
 Session Hijackers (Cookies )
 Web Trojans
 Data Theft

11. Types of Phishing
 DNS-Based - Phishing that interferes with the integrity of
the lookup process for a domain name. Forms of DNS-based
phishing are:
 Hosts file poisoning
 Polluting user’s DNS cache
 Proxy server compromise
 Man-in-the-Middle Phishing - Phisher positions himself
between the user and the legitimate site.

12. Types of Phishing
 Content-Injection – Inserting malicious content into legitimate site.
Three primary types of content-injection phishing:
 Hackers can compromise a server through a security
vulnerability and replace or augment the legitimate content with
malicious content.
 Malicious content can be inserted into a site through a cross-site
scripting vulnerability.
 Malicious actions can be performed on a site through a SQL
injection vulnerability.

13. Causes of Phishing
 Misleading e-mails
 No check of source address
 Vulnerability in browsers
 No strong authentication at websites of banks and
financial institutions
 Limited use of digital signatures
 Non-availability of secure desktop tools
 Lack of user awareness
 Vulnerability in applications

14. Anti Phishing
 A. Social responses
 B. Technical approaches
 1. Helping to identify legitimate websites.
 2. Browsers alerting users to fraudulent websites.
 3. Eliminating Phishing mail.
 4. Monitoring and takedown.
 C. Legal approaches

15. Effects of Phishing
 Internet fraud
 Identity theft
 Financial loss to the original institutions
 Difficulties in Law Enforcement Investigations
 Erosion of Public Trust in the Internet.

16. Defend against Phishing Attacks
 Preventing a phishing attack before it begins
 Detecting a phishing attack
 Preventing the delivery of phishing messages
 Preventing deception in phishing messages and sites
 Counter measures
 Interfering with the use of compromised information

17. Conclusion
 No single technology will completely stop phishing.
 However, a combination of good organization and
practice, proper application of current technologies,
and improvements in security technology has the
potential to drastically reduce the prevalence of
phishing and the losses suffered from it.

18. Reference
 www.phishtank.com
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing
 https://safety.yahoo.com/Security/PHISHING-SITE.html
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