Malicious Message Clustering

Proofpoint Mathematics, 2019-20

Liaison(s): Adam Starr, Thomas Lynam
Advisor(s): Weiqing Gu
Students(s): Vikram Amin, Xinyu (Carrie) Yang, Winston Li, Princewill Okoroafor, Joseph Gardi

Proofpoint is a leader at identifying email threats. This project seeks to accurately identify emails from the same attack campaign. The team designed and tested software tools to support this investigation, culminating in a retrieval pipeline that, given a query email, returns similar emails from a database.