Malicious web content detection by machine learning

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-60

  Hou, Yung Tsung ^a   Chang, Yimeng ^b   Chen, Tsuhan ^b   Laih, Chi Sung ^c   Chen, Chia Mei ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dynamic HTML; Machine learning; Malicious webpage

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARES; CODE OBFUSCATION; MACHINE LEARNING; MALICIOUS WEBPAGE; SIGNATURE-BASED APPROACH; WEB CONTENT; WEB-PAGE;

EDUCATION; HTML; MARKUP LANGUAGES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ROBOT LEARNING;

EID: 70349437016     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.05.023     Document Type: Article

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