Malicious Web Domain Identification using Online Credibility and Performance Data by Considering the Class Imbalance Issue
Purpose: Malicious web domain identification is of significant importance to the security protection of Internet users. With online credibility and performance data, this paper aims to investigate the use of machine learning tech-niques for malicious web domain identification by considering the class imbalance issue (i.e., there are more benign web domains than malicious ones). Design/methodology/approach: We propose an integrated resampling approach to handle class imbalance by combining the Synthetic Minority Over-sampling TEchnique (SMOTE) and Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO), a population-based meta-heuristic algorithm. We use the SMOTE for over-sampling and PSO for under-sampling. Findings: By applying eight well-known machine learning classifiers, the proposed integrated resampling approach is comprehensively examined using several imbalanced web domain datasets with different imbalance ratios. Com-pared to five other well-known resampling approaches, experimental results confirm that the proposed approach is highly effective. Practical implications: This study not only inspires the practical use of online credibility and performance data for identifying malicious web domains, but also provides an effective resampling approach for handling the class imbal-ance issue in the area of malicious web domain identification. Originality/value: Online credibility and performance data is applied to build malicious web domain identification models using machine learning techniques. An integrated resampling approach is proposed to address the class im-balance issue. The performance of the proposed approach is confirmed based on real-world datasets with different imbalance ratios.
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