Hidden Below the Landing Page: Tracking Linked Pages and Relation-Centered DOM Summaries for Financial Phishing Detection

Hyeji Heo, Dae-Young Park, Minwoo Kim


Abstract
Phishing can turn stolen personal information into financial harm, yet some sites hide data collection beyond the landing page. We present a site-level workflow for Korean-language phishing that tracks linked pages and supplies LLMs with relation-centered DOM summaries. The 256 landing URLs treated as phishing in the full collection were labeled primarily by the initial LLM, with human labels taking precedence for reviewed sites. Of these, 161 (62.9%) were detected by at least one VirusTotal engine; 215 of 217 linked URLs (99.1%) had no prior query record, and neither remaining URL was detected. On 70 human-validated landing pages, summarization increased Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite’s F1 from 0.621 to 0.925, while F1 changes for the other three Gemini models ranged from -0.011 to +0.035. In a six-site case study, data collection was detected only on linked pages, while page-level aggregation retained landing-page impersonation targets more consistently than concatenation. These results highlight the importance of exploration scope and show model-dependent accuracy effects of relation-centered DOM summaries in phishing detection.
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2026.finnlp-1.45
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Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing
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October
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2026
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Budapest, Hungary
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Jimin Huang, Yongjae Lee, Sophia Ananiadou, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Hiroya Takamura, Chung-Chi Chen
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FinNLP | WS
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SIGFinTech
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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566–573
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Hyeji Heo, Dae-Young Park, and Minwoo Kim. 2026. Hidden Below the Landing Page: Tracking Linked Pages and Relation-Centered DOM Summaries for Financial Phishing Detection. In Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing, pages 566–573, Budapest, Hungary. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Hidden Below the Landing Page: Tracking Linked Pages and Relation-Centered DOM Summaries for Financial Phishing Detection (Heo et al., FinNLP 2026)
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