Advanced Evasion Attacks and Mitigations on Practical ML-Based Phishing Website Classifiers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.06954v1
• Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 09:04:16 GMT
• Title: Advanced Evasion Attacks and Mitigations on Practical ML-Based Phishing Website Classifiers
• Authors: Yusi Lei, Sen Chen, Lingling Fan, Fu Song, and Yang Liu
• Abstract summary: We show that evasion attacks can be launched on ML-based anti-phishing classifiers even in the grey-, and black-box scenarios. We propose three mutation-based attacks, differing in the knowledge of the target classifier, addressing a key technical challenge. We demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our evasion attacks on the state-of-the-art, Google's phishing page filter, achieved 100% attack success rate in less than one second per website.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Machine learning (ML) based approaches have been the mainstream solution for anti-phishing detection. When they are deployed on the client-side, ML-based classifiers are vulnerable to evasion attacks. However, such potential threats have received relatively little attention because existing attacks destruct the functionalities or appearance of webpages and are conducted in the white-box scenario, making it less practical. Consequently, it becomes imperative to understand whether it is possible to launch evasion attacks with limited knowledge of the classifier, while preserving the functionalities and appearance. In this work, we show that even in the grey-, and black-box scenarios, evasion attacks are not only effective on practical ML-based classifiers, but can also be efficiently launched without destructing the functionalities and appearance. For this purpose, we propose three mutation-based attacks, differing in the knowledge of the target classifier, addressing a key technical challenge: automatically crafting an adversarial sample from a known phishing website in a way that can mislead classifiers. To launch attacks in the white- and grey-box scenarios, we also propose a sample-based collision attack to gain the knowledge of the target classifier. We demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our evasion attacks on the state-of-the-art, Google's phishing page filter, achieved 100% attack success rate in less than one second per website. Moreover, the transferability attack on BitDefender's industrial phishing page classifier, TrafficLight, achieved up to 81.25% attack success rate. We further propose a similarity-based method to mitigate such evasion attacks, Pelican. We demonstrate that Pelican can effectively detect evasion attacks. Our findings contribute to design more robust phishing website classifiers in practice.

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