arXiv:2507.15393cs.CRcs.AI2025-07被引 4

用知识库验证发件人身份,自动识别并解释不断演化的钓鱼邮件。

PiMRef: Detecting and Explaining Ever-evolving Spear Phishing Emails with Knowledge Base Invariants

  • 将钓鱼邮件检测转化为身份事实核查任务,利用知识库发现矛盾信息。
  • 在真实数据上实现92.1%精确率、87.9%召回率,响应速度仅0.05秒。
  • 可生成人类可读的解释,适合安全团队和防御系统快速部署。

钓鱼邮件是网络犯罪链中的关键环节,因其传播广、成本低而极具威胁。其持续演化特性使传统基于规则和特征工程的检测方法失效,大语言模型(LLMs)的兴起更让攻击者能低成本生成高度可信的钓鱼邮件。本文证明,LLMs可生成针对特定目标的心理诱导型钓鱼邮件,几乎绕过所有商业与学术检测器。为此,我们提出PiMRef——首个基于参考知识库的钓鱼邮件检测框架,核心思想是:说服性钓鱼邮件常包含可证伪的身份声明,与现实事实矛盾。PiMRef将检测任务重构为身份事实核查:提取发件人声称身份,验证域名真实性,识别诱导用户操作的语句。矛盾点即为钓鱼指标,并提供可解释性说明。相比D-Fence、HelpHed、ChatSpamDetector等方法,PiMRef在Nazario和PhishPot基准上提升8.8%精确率且无召回损失。在覆盖五所大学账户、历时三年的10,183封邮件真实评估中,实现92.1%精确率、87.9%召回率,平均耗时0.05秒,综合性能优于现有最先进方法。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Phishing emails are a critical component of the cybercrime kill chain due to their wide reach and low cost. Their ever-evolving nature renders traditional rule-based and feature-engineered detectors ineffective in the ongoing arms race between attackers and defenders. The rise of large language models (LLMs) further exacerbates the threat, enabling attackers to craft highly convincing phishing emails at minimal cost. This work demonstrates that LLMs can generate psychologically persuasive phishing emails tailored to victim profiles, successfully bypassing nearly all commercial and academic detectors. To defend against such threats, we propose PiMRef, the first reference-based phishing email detector that leverages knowledge-based invariants. Our core insight is that persuasive phishing emails often contain disprovable identity claims, which contradict real-world facts. PiMRef reframes phishing detection as an identity fact-checking task. Given an email, PiMRef (i) extracts the sender's claimed identity, (ii) verifies the legitimacy of the sender's domain against a predefined knowledge base, and (iii) detects call-to-action prompts that push user engagement. Contradictory claims are flagged as phishing indicators and serve as human-understandable explanations. Compared to existing methods such as D-Fence, HelpHed, and ChatSpamDetector, PiMRef boosts precision by 8.8% with no loss in recall on standard benchmarks like Nazario and PhishPot. In a real-world evaluation of 10,183 emails across five university accounts over three years, PiMRef achieved 92.1% precision, 87.9% recall, and a median runtime of 0.05s, outperforming the state-of-the-art in both effectiveness and efficiency.

钓鱼邮件LLM安全事实核查可解释性

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