Systems and methods for detection of phishing webpages through autoencoder techniques

Abstract

One implementation is directed to a phishing detection methodology including operations of obtaining an image of a candidate phishing webpage having a login screen component, where encoder is deployed on the image resulting in the generation of a latent representation corresponding to the login screen component. The login screen component may then be classified as one of a defined set of classes by deploying a machine learning model taking the latent representation as input. Further, an additional operation may include obtaining allow/deny lists of account authentication providers for the domain of the URL of the candidate phishing webpage. Finally, a determination may be made as to whether the candidate phishing webpage is a phishing webpage when the login class assigned by the classifying machine learning model does not appear on the allow list.