Webpage Matching Based on Visual Similarity

With the rapid development of the Internet,the types of webpages are more abundant than in previous decades.However,it becomes severe that people are facing more and more significant network security risks and enormous losses caused by phishing webpages,which imitate the interface of real webpages and deceive the victims.To better identify and distinguish phishing webpages,a visual feature extraction method and a visual similarity algorithm are proposed.First,the visual feature extraction method improves the Visionbased Page Segmentation(VIPS)algorithm to extract the visual block and calculate its signature by perceptual hash technology.Second,the visual similarity algorithm presents a one-to-one correspondence based on the visual blocks’coordinates and thresholds.Then the weights are assigned according to the tree structure,and the similarity of the visual blocks is calculated on the basis of the measurement of the visual features’Hamming distance.Further,the visual similarity of webpages is generated by integrating the similarity and weight of different visual blocks.Finally,multiple pairs of phishing webpages and legitimate webpages are evaluated to verify the feasibility of the algorithm.The experimental results achieve excellent performance and demonstrate that our method can achieve 94%accuracy.

An Efficient Character-Level Adversarial Attack Inspired by Textual Variations in Online Social Media Platforms

In recent years,the growing popularity of social media platforms has led to several interesting natural language processing(NLP)applications.However,these social media-based NLP applications are subject to different types of adversarial attacks due to the vulnerabilities of machine learning(ML)and NLP techniques.This work presents a new low-level adversarial attack recipe inspired by textual variations in online social media communication.These variations are generated to convey the message using out-of-vocabulary words based on visual and phonetic similarities of characters and words in the shortest possible form.The intuition of the proposed scheme is to generate adversarial examples influenced by human cognition in text generation on social media platforms while preserving human robustness in text understanding with the fewest possible perturbations.The intentional textual variations introduced by users in online communication motivate us to replicate such trends in attacking text to see the effects of such widely used textual variations on the deep learning classifiers.In this work,the four most commonly used textual variations are chosen to generate adversarial examples.Moreover,this article introduced a word importance ranking-based beam search algorithm as a searching method for the best possible perturbation selection.The effectiveness of the proposed adversarial attacks has been demonstrated on four benchmark datasets in an extensive experimental setup.