Abstract:

Starting from the email attacks and hazards of view based on social engineering, the paper deeply analysis email attacks based on social engineering. Currently, email attack based on social engineering techniques is a common method of attack, and is an important channel of the malicious code. This paper relies on a number of captured events, and correlative analysis attack method by means of communication and attachment file of email. Finally, by extracting similar characteristic, the paper digs out more similar attack email, and gives the overall correlation analysis and summary.

Key words: social engineering, E-mail, malicious code, sample