SMS Phishing Code and Data Releases

This repository holds code, data, and documents relating to our paper "On SMS Phishing Tactics and Infrastructure."

Contents

• research-paper.pdf Our paper describing this research, including our data collection methodology.
• phishing_messages contains the raw messages collected from the gateways that VirusTotal and APWG marked as phishing along with the destination number.
• phishing_campaigns contains the campaigns that we constructed, along with the URLs that they use, first and last seen timestamps (UNIX timestamps), and number of messages observed.

Cite Our Paper

If you find this code or data useful, we'd appreciate a citation or link to our paper.

Aleksandr Nahapetyan, Sathvik Prasad, Kevin Childs, Adam Oest, Yeganeh Ladwig, Alexandros Kapravelos, Bradley Reaves. "On SMS Phishing Tactics and Infrastructure." in Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2024.

@inproceedings{smsphishing-sp24,
  title = {{On SMS Phishing Tactics and Infrastructure}},
  author = {Nahapetyan, Aleksandr and Prasad, Sathvik and Childs, Kevin and Oest, Adam and Ladwig, Yeganeh and Kapravelos, Alexandros and Reaves, Brad},
  booktitle = {{Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy}},
  month = may,
  year = {2024}
}

Contact

If you would like access to code or data that is not presented here, contact Brad Reaves.

You can learn more about related work at robocall.science.