Image SPAM Detection Using ML and DL Techniques

Abstract

Abstract Since e-mail is one of the most common places to send messages, spammers have, in recent years, targeted it as a preferred way of distributing undesired messages (spam) to several users to spread viruses, cause destruction, and obtain user's information. Spam images are considered one of the known spam types. The spammer processes images and changes their characteristics, especially background colour, font type, or adding artefacts to the images to spread spam. In this paper, we proposed a spam detection model using Several ML (Random-Forest (RF), Decision-Tree (DT), KNearest Neighbor (KNN), Support-Vector Machine (SVM), NaïveBays (NB), and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)). Several experiments evaluate the efficiency and performance of the (ML) algorithms for spam detection. Using the Image Spam Hunter Dataset extracted from real spam e-mails, the proposed model achieved over 99% accuracy on spam image detection. Keywords: SPAM, Machine Learning, Image Classification, Feature Extraction, Deep Learning.