Demo: PhishSense: A LLM-Enhanced Multimodal Framework for Phishing Website Detection
Phishing attacks pose persistent cybersecurity threats. In this paper, we propose PhishSense, a GPT-enhanced multimodal framework designed for detecting phishing websites. It integrates both visual and textual information through large language model (LLM) calls. Experimental results show that the LLM-augmented image branch reduces false negatives from 45.8% to 28.0%, while the LLM-augmented text branch lowers false negatives from 45.7% to 31.9%. Moreover, the multimodal approach improves overall detection precision by up to 75% compared to unimodal methods. These improvements enable our multimodal model to substantially outperform unimodal baselines, underscoring the potential of conditional LLM integration in improving phishing detection accuracy.
Authors
- Tingting Tang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1670-7452)
- Tiffany Bao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6424-0001)
Institutions
- Boston University (US)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-06-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/svcc65277.2025.11133643
- Primary Topic
- Spam and Phishing Detection
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Boston University