Recently, the development and implementation of phishing attacks require little technical skills and costs. This uprising has led to an ever-growing number of phishing attacks on the World Wide Web. Consequently, proactive techniques to fight phishing attacks have become extremely necessary. In this paper, we propose HTMLPhish, a deep learning based datadriven end-to-end automatic phishing web page classification approach. Specifically, HTMLPhish receives the content of the HTML document of a web page and employs Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to learn the semantic dependencies in the textual contents of the HTML. The CNNs learn appropriate feature representations from the HTML document embeddings without extensive manual feature engineering. Furthermore, our proposed approach of the concatenation of the word and character embeddings allows our model to manage new features and ensure easy extrapolation to test data. We conduct comprehensive experiments on a dataset of more than 50,000 HTML documents that provides a distribution of phishing to benign web pages obtainable in the real-world that yields over 93% Accuracy and True Positive Rate. Also, HTMLPhish is a completely language-independent and client-side strategy which can, therefore, conduct web page phishing detection regardless of the textual language.

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Smart contracts are increasingly being used on platforms for virtual transactions, such as Ethereum, owing to new financial innovations. As these platforms are anonymous and easy to use, they are perfect places for phishing scams to grow. Unlike traditional phishing detection approaches that aim to distinguish phishing websites and emails using their HTML content and URL, phishing attacks on Ethereum focus on detecting phishing addresses by analysing the transaction relationships on the virtual transaction platform. This study proposes a link prediction framework for detecting phishing transactions on the Ethereum platform using 12 local network-based features extracted from the ether receiving (target) and initiating (source) addresses. The framework was trained and tested on over 280,000 verified phishing and legitimate transaction records. Experimental results indicate that the proposed framework with a LightGBM classifier provides a high recall of 89% and an AUC score of 93%.