Trail of Phish

Trail of Phish is a private repository of phishing emails.

Usage

Original email messages are stored in data/raw/, and a Rakefile is used to generate the anonymized email messages, archive links, extract attachments and create zip archives of the emails.

Directory Structure

• data/raw - Contains the raw and unanonymized emails, grouped into category directories, such as crime and phishing.
• data/processed - Contains the anonymized emails and additional metadata, grouped into category directories, such as crime and phishing.
• data/processed/$md5/message.eml - The anonymized email message.
• data/processed/$md5/links/ - The archive of every link contained within the email body.
• data/processed/$md5/attachments/ - Contains the extracted attachments contained within the email.
• data/processed/$md5.zip - A password protected (infected) zip archive of the anonymized email, archive links and extracted attachments.

Rake Tasks

• rake emails:anonymize - Anonymizes all original emails.
• rake emails:extract:attachments - Extracts all attachments from all emails.
• rake emails:extract:links - Extracts all links from all emails.
• rake emails:zip - Creates zip archives of all emails.
• rake yard - Generate API Documentation in the doc/ directory.

Anonymization

All emails are anonymized by having the following data replaced with an equal number of X characters:

• Email addresses listed in the To header.
• Display names listed in the To header.