Patent attributes
A method for detecting a phishing website includes extracting a domain name from a target URL of a web page under investigation, and querying PageRank and/or Alexa ranking of the domain name; extracting a title character string from the title of the web page and matching the character string to phishing sensitive words; using the title of web page as a keyword to search on a search engine; querying whether Target URL and the web page in the search result with a same title as the web page under investigation have the same domain name server NS and server IP address to determine whether the website is a phishing website. The disclosed method utilizes common features of phishing websites and public resources on the Internet, and overcomes the difficulty in collecting phishing website samples, and is well adapted to detecting phishing aimed at new target websites.