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Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 29, 2022
Applicant:

Mcafee, Llc, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Oliver Devane, Upton, GB;

Rafael Pena, Bucks, GB;

Abhishek Karnik, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Assignee:

McAfee, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1483 (2013.01); H04L 9/0643 (2013.01); H04L 63/1416 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus for detecting a phishing website based on website icons is disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes parser circuitry to parse code of a first website, detector circuitry to detect, based on the parsed code, a first website icon and a first Uniform Resource Locator (URL) corresponding to the first website, and hash generator circuitry to generate a first hash of the first website icon, and store the first hash in association with the first URL in a hash entry of an icon hash database, the hash entry to be used for determining that a second website is a phishing website when (a) the first hash matches a second hash of a second website icon corresponding to the second website, and (b) a first portion of the first URL matches a second portion of a second URL corresponding to the second website.


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