Original Article

A phishing recognition framework leveraging web page code and textual features using recurrent neural network (RNN) algorithm

Abstract

Phishing detection focusses on identifying one of the most common and emerging forms of cybercrime exploits user in a fake form. Manual detection strategies do not dynamic phishing attacks, particularly when criminals understand web page structures and textual content. To solve this problem, this research proposes a phishing recognition framework leveraging web page code and textual features using Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) technique in global phishing discovery that uses web page code and textual content. By adding structural attributes of code in HTML with meaning representations of textual content, the design effectively trains sequential dependencies and contextual relationships that differentiate phishing pages from lawful page. Experimental evaluation using benchmark phishing data shows that the proposed RNN-based framework performs better than (ML) Analysis. The investigations show the potential of (DL) models in improving web security, offering a scalable and strong solution for phishing detection software across diverse global cyber communities.

Keywords

Phishing detection; Recurrentneural networks (RNN); Web page code analysis; Text feature extraction; Cyber security; Deep learning

Corresponding Author

Dr. J.A. Benya

Department of Computer Science, Institute of Media Studies (IMS) College of Innovation and Computing Technology, Summit University, Offa, Nigeria

benya.jamiu@summituniversity.edu.ng

Article History

Received Date : 03 July 2025

Revised Date : 25 July 2025

Accepted Date : 06 August 2025

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