Evading SpamAssassin with obfuscated text images

2007-11-01

Battista Biggio

University of Cagliari, Italy

Giorgio Fumera

Ignazio Pillai

Fabio Roli

Riccardo Satta

Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

Battista Biggio and colleagues assess the performance of popular open source spam filter SpamAssassin against image spam with obfuscated text.

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