Mustapha A. Mohammed

Work place: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, 00233, Ghana & Koforidua Technical University, Koforidua, 00233, Ghana

E-mail: adamu.mohammed@ktu.edu.gh

Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4190-3970

Research Interests: Data Structures and Algorithms, Computational Learning Theory, Computer systems and computational processes, Computational Science and Engineering

Biography

Mustapha Adamu Mohammed is currently pursuing his PhD in Computer Science. He received his M.Phil. degree in Computer Science from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. His research interest is the area of big data and statistics, machine learning and deep learning.

Author Articles
Intelligent Detection Technique for Malicious Websites Based on Deep Neural Network Classifier

By Mustapha A. Mohammed Seth Alornyo Michael Asante Bernard O. Essah

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijeme.2022.06.05, Pub. Date: 8 Dec. 2022

A major risk associated with internet usage is the access of websites that contain malicious content, since they serve as entry points for cyber attackers or as avenues for the download of files that could harm users.  Recent reports on cyber-attacks have been registered via websites, drawing the attention of security researchers to develop robust methods that will proactively detect malicious websites and make the internet safer. This study proposes a deep learning method using radial basis function neural network (RBFN), to classify abnormal URLs which are the main sources of malicious websites. We train our neural network to learn benign web characteristics and patterns based on application layer and network features and apply binary cross entropy function to classify websites. We used publicly available datasets to evaluate our model. We then trained and assessed the results of our model against conventional machine learning classifiers. The experimental results show a very successful classification method, that achieved an accuracy of 89.72% on our datasets.

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