With the exponential growth of internet users, web browsers play an essential role in gathering knowledge, social networking etc. Browser plugin/add-on is a unique feature of modern browsers that allows for adding new gimmicks to the browser functionality. Although this tool is handy, it poses a significant risk as it can collect and store users browsing history, passwords and more. Hence, attackers can try injecting malicious browser add-ons that can utilize security loopholes wherein the attacker may access user-critical data on the host device. The Smart Extension Malware Detector (SEMD), a reliable browser malware detection system that relies on extension development API calls and privileges using outfit machine learning approaches, was suggested and created by us. The research outcomes demonstrate that the SEMD model outperformed peer models while lowering the difficulty of the detection procedure.
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