A hybrid spam detection method based on unstructured datasets

Autor: Quan Shi, Marcello Trovati, Eleana Asimakopoulou, Nik Bessis, Yeqin Shao, Olga Angelopoulou
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Soft Computing. 21:233-243
ISSN: 1433-7479
1432-7643
DOI: 10.1007/s00500-015-1959-z
Popis: The identification of non-genuine or malicious messages poses a variety of challenges due to the continuous changes in the techniques utilised by cyber-criminals. In this article, we propose a hybrid detection method based on a combination of image and text spam recognition techniques. In particular, the former is based on sparse representation-based classification, which focuses on the global and local image features, and a dictionary learning technique to achieve a spam and a ham sub-dictionary. On the other hand, the textual analysis is based on semantic properties of documents to assess the level of maliciousness. More specifically, we are able to distinguish between meta-spam and real spam. Experimental results show the accuracy and potential of our approach.
Databáze: OpenAIRE