Identification of attack/misuse with email header forensic

Email becomes important communication nowadays; it was used in government sector, education sector, business sector and others. Because of its popularity it attracts offenders to commit crime in email communication. This study focuses on one type of email crime; spam email. Three popular webmail was...

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Main Author: Mohamad, Ahmad Fahrulrazie
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Language:English
Published: 2015
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spelling my-utm-ep.536462020-08-23T09:15:11Z Identification of attack/misuse with email header forensic 2015-01 Mohamad, Ahmad Fahrulrazie TK5101-6720 Telecommunication Email becomes important communication nowadays; it was used in government sector, education sector, business sector and others. Because of its popularity it attracts offenders to commit crime in email communication. This study focuses on one type of email crime; spam email. Three popular webmail was choose namely as Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo mail. Spam email was sent to each webmail to see the accuracy of each webmail in detecting the spam email. The results show Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo mail are lack of accuracy in detecting those spam email. All spam emails was collected and information contained in the email header was analyze. Previous studies believe mismatch or forging information in the email header may indicate the behavior of spam emails. New email header forgery detection mechanism was developed to check mismatch or forging information in the email header. This study focus on the information contained in the Message-ID, Reply-To, From and Received field. Any mismatch or forging information in this field may indicate the behavior of spam emails. The mechanism will classify those emails that have mismatch or forging information in that particular features as spam emails instead classify as legitimate email since Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo mail classified those spam email as legitimate email. 2015-01 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/53646/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/53646/25/AhmadFahrulrazieMohamadMFC2015.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:84650 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing Faculty of Computing
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language English
topic TK5101-6720 Telecommunication
spellingShingle TK5101-6720 Telecommunication
Mohamad, Ahmad Fahrulrazie
Identification of attack/misuse with email header forensic
description Email becomes important communication nowadays; it was used in government sector, education sector, business sector and others. Because of its popularity it attracts offenders to commit crime in email communication. This study focuses on one type of email crime; spam email. Three popular webmail was choose namely as Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo mail. Spam email was sent to each webmail to see the accuracy of each webmail in detecting the spam email. The results show Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo mail are lack of accuracy in detecting those spam email. All spam emails was collected and information contained in the email header was analyze. Previous studies believe mismatch or forging information in the email header may indicate the behavior of spam emails. New email header forgery detection mechanism was developed to check mismatch or forging information in the email header. This study focus on the information contained in the Message-ID, Reply-To, From and Received field. Any mismatch or forging information in this field may indicate the behavior of spam emails. The mechanism will classify those emails that have mismatch or forging information in that particular features as spam emails instead classify as legitimate email since Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo mail classified those spam email as legitimate email.
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qualification_level Master's degree
author Mohamad, Ahmad Fahrulrazie
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title Identification of attack/misuse with email header forensic
title_short Identification of attack/misuse with email header forensic
title_full Identification of attack/misuse with email header forensic
title_fullStr Identification of attack/misuse with email header forensic
title_full_unstemmed Identification of attack/misuse with email header forensic
title_sort identification of attack/misuse with email header forensic
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing
granting_department Faculty of Computing
publishDate 2015
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/53646/25/AhmadFahrulrazieMohamadMFC2015.pdf
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