Investigating an Anomaly-based Intrusion Detection via Tree-based Adaptive Boosting Ensemble

The eased accessibility, mobility, and portability of smartphones have caused the consequent rise in the proliferation of users' vulnerability to a variety of phishing attacks. Some users are more vulnerable due to factors like personality behavioral traits, media presence, and other factors. Our study seeks to reveal cues utilized by successful attacks by identifying web content as genuine and malicious data. We explore a sentiment-based extreme gradient boost learner with data collected over social platforms, scraped using the Python Google Scrapper. Our results show AdaBoost yields a prediction accuracy of 0.9989 to correctly classify 2148 cases with incorrectly classified 25 cases. The result shows the tree-based AdaBoost ensemble can effectively identify phishing cues and efficiently classify phishing lures against unsuspecting users from access to malicious content.