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Phishing the Phishers with SpecularNet: Hierarchical Graph Autoencoding for Reference-Free Web Phishing Detection
- 仅用域名和HTML结构,通过分层图自编码捕捉网页深层特征。
- 在基准数据集上达93.9% F1分数,推理时间仅20毫秒。
- 适合需要低延迟、可复现的实时防护系统使用。
钓鱼攻击仍是网络主要威胁,通过伪装网页大规模窃取凭证与实施金融诈骗。现有基于参考库和生成式AI的检测方法虽准确,但依赖外部知识库、云服务及复杂多模态流程,严重限制了实用性、可扩展性与可复现性。传统深度学习方法又难以适应不断演化的钓鱼活动。本文提出SpecularNet,一种轻量级无参考网页钓鱼检测框架,证明精心设计的小型架构可媲美重型系统。该模型仅利用域名和HTML结构,将文档对象模型(DOM)建模为树形结构,采用具有方向性和层级消息传递的分层图自编码架构,捕获钓鱼网页的高阶结构不变性,支持标准CPU上的快速端到端推理。在13种先进检测器对比中,SpecularNet实现竞争力性能,计算成本显著降低:在基准数据集上达到93.9% F1分数,推理时间从数秒降至约20毫秒/页面。现场与鲁棒性评估进一步验证其在真实部署、新收集的2026年开放世界数据集及对抗攻击下的有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Phishing remains the most pervasive threat to the Web, enabling large-scale credential theft and financial fraud through deceptive webpages. While recent reference-based and generative-AI-driven phishing detectors achieve strong accuracy, their reliance on external knowledge bases, cloud services, and complex multimodal pipelines fundamentally limits practicality, scalability, and reproducibility. In contrast, conventional deep learning approaches often fail to generalize to evolving phishing campaigns. We introduce SpecularNet, a novel lightweight framework for reference-free web phishing detection that demonstrates how carefully designed compact architectures can rival heavyweight systems. SpecularNet operates solely on the domain name and HTML structure, modeling the Document Object Model (DOM) as a tree and leveraging a hierarchical graph autoencoding architecture with directional, level-wise message passing. This design captures higher-order structural invariants of phishing webpages while enabling fast, end-to-end inference on standard CPUs. Extensive evaluation against 13 state of the art phishing detectors, including leading reference-based systems, shows that SpecularNet achieves competitive detection performance with dramatically lower computational cost. On benchmark datasets, it reaches an F1 score of 93.9%, trailing the best reference-based method slightly while reducing inference time from several seconds to approximately 20 milliseconds per webpage. Field and robustness evaluations further validate SpecularNet in real-world deployments, on a newly collected 2026 open-world dataset, and against adversarial attacks.
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