Visible to the public Quick Response Code Validation and Phishing Detection Tool

TitleQuick Response Code Validation and Phishing Detection Tool
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2021
AuthorsIsmail, Safwati, Alkawaz, Mohammed Hazim, Kumar, Alvin Ebenazer
Conference Name2021 IEEE 11th IEEE Symposium on Computer Applications & Industrial Electronics (ISCAIE)
Keywordscryptography, Cyber-physical systems, Industrial electronics, malicious URLs, Online banking, Operating systems, Pharming and File Transfer Protocol, phishing, Protocols, pubcrawl, QR Code Phishing Detector, QR codes, Quick Respond Code, Resiliency, security, Tools
AbstractA Quick Response (QR) Code is a type of barcode that can be read by the digital devices and which stores the information in a square-shaped. The QR Code readers can extract data from the patterns which are presented in the QR Code matrix. A QR Code can be acting as an attack vector that can harm indirectly. In such case a QR Code can carry malicious or phishing URLs and redirect users to a site which is well conceived by the attacker and pretends to be an authorized one. Once the QR Code is decoded the commands are triggered and executed, causing damage to information, operating system and other possible sequence the attacker expects to gain. In this paper, a new model for QR Code authentication and phishing detection has been presented. The proposed model will be able to detect the phishing and malicious URLs in the process of the QR Code validation as well as to prevent the user from validating it. The development of this application will help to prevent users from being tricked by the harmful QR Codes.
DOI10.1109/ISCAIE51753.2021.9431807
Citation Keyismail_quick_2021