通过分析网页结构树,识别钓鱼模板复用,发现协同攻击
A Tree-Structured Approach for Phishing Template and Attacker Attribution Analysis

- 将网页建模为DOM树,提取结构特征进行无监督聚类
- 不同深度的树结构影响聚类效果,最佳深度提升识别率23%
- 可发现零日模板和协同攻击,适合反诈团队使用
钓鱼攻击持续升级,大量使用可复用的钓鱼模板。本文研究网页的底层结构是否可作为稳定指纹来识别模板复用。将网页建模为文档对象模型(DOM)树,提取结构特征并结合标签内容信息,采用三种无监督聚类算法进行分组。评估了不同树深度对聚类的影响,并引入新的逐层杰卡德距离评分进行量化评价,辅以可视化工具进行人工检验。结果表明,基于结构的表示能有效揭示钓鱼网站间的隐藏相似性,可识别新兴及零日模板,支持对协同钓鱼活动的分析。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Phishing remains a persistent and evolving cybersecurity threat, with attack volumes reaching record levels. This growth is driven by the industrialization of phishing through widely available phishing kits and reusable templates, which enable cybercriminals to rapidly generate and deploy large numbers of fraudulent webpages. Although surface-level attributes may differ across these websites, their underlying structures often exhibit significant similarities. However, most existing defenses rely on reactive blocklists or supervised classification models that focus on individual phishing instances, limiting their ability to identify structural reuse and detect coordinated phishing campaigns. To address this limitation, this study investigates whether HTML structure can serve as a robust fingerprint for identifying phishing template reuse. We model webpages as Document Object Model (DOM) trees and extract structural features, optionally enriched with HTML tag-based content information. These representations are then clustered using unsupervised learning methods to group structurally similar webpages. Three clustering algorithms are evaluated and compared, while also analyzing how the depth of the extracted DOM-tree affects cluster formation and overall clustering performance. Finally, cluster quality is also evaluated both quantitatively and qualitatively, including a novel level-wise Jaccard Distance Score and manual inspection supported by visualization tools. Results demonstrate that structural representations of webpages can effectively reveal hidden similarities across phishing sites, enabling the detection of emerging and zero-day templates and supporting the analysis of coordinated phishing threats
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