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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2019
Paypal, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Eric Nunes, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Meethil Vijay Yadav, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Nicholas Bailey, Mesa, AZ (US);
Nathan Pratt, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Bradley Wardman, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Todd Clausen, Gilbert, AZ (US);
Kevin Tyers, Chandler, AZ (US);
PAYPAL, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for phishing detection using uniform resource locators is discussed. The method includes accessing data from one or more of a monitored portion of website data and a monitored portion of emails, the data indicating a suspect Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The method includes assigning a rule score based on partial rule scores of each portion of the suspect URL, the rule score indicating a phishing potential based on URL rules. The method includes determining a uniqueness score of the suspect URL, the uniqueness score indicating a degree of uniqueness of the suspect URL from a plurality of known phishing URLs. The method also includes determining a URL phishing score based, at least in part, on the rules scores and the uniqueness score for the suspect URL.