An Analysis of a New Detection Method for Spear Phishing Attack

A new method to detect credential spear phishing attack for the network is introduced in the conference of 26th USENIX Security Symposium. First, on the basis of the researching for the processes and the principles of spear phishing attack, and the overall structure of its detector, the Directed Anomaly Scoring technology is analyzed in the paper. Second, the selections of scalars in subdetectors are defined. Third, the spear phishing attack detection method of detector and the methods of traditional detection are compared and analyzed. And then, the obvious advantages of the detector are discussed. The prospection of the spear phishing attack detection development is also given at the end of the paper.