Analysing the email data using stylometric method and deep learning to mitigate phishing attack

The high-volume usage of email has attracted cybercriminals to the platform and criminals are aware of difficulties users often have in separating legitimate from illegitimate emails and seek to take advantage of those difficulties by impersonating staff of a trusted organisation to persuade users into divulging their private information. To help users overcome the difficulty in detecting phishing attacks, a system is proposed. Recent advancement uses: stylometric features, gender features and personality features to carry out a sender verification process. The existing approaches are more complex and if the system fails to detect bad email, and it gets to users, the possibility of becoming a victim becomes high if not detected by the user. The proposed framework adds Colour Code to Email Verification (CCEV). It conducts sender’s verification at the recipients’ end based on 3-features related with senders, writing pattern, gender, and header.