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Abstract
To combat phishing attacks -- aimed at luring web users to divulge their
sensitive information -- various phishing detection approaches have been
proposed. As attackers focus on devising new tactics to bypass existing
detection solutions, researchers have adapted by integrating machine learning
and deep learning into phishing detection. Phishing dataset collection is vital
to developing effective phishing detection approaches, which highly depend on
the diversity of the gathered datasets. The lack of diversity in the dataset
results in a biased model. Since phishing websites are often short-lived,
collecting them is also a challenge. Consequently, very few phishing webpage
dataset repositories exist to date. No single repository comprehensively
consolidates all phishing elements corresponding to a phishing webpage, namely,
URL, webpage source code, screenshot, and related webpage resources. This paper
introduces a resource collection tool designed to gather various resources
associated with a URL, such as CSS, Javascript, favicons, webpage images, and
screenshots. Our tool leverages PhishTank as the primary source for obtaining
active phishing URLs. Our tool fetches several additional webpage resources
compared to PyWebCopy Python library, which provides webpage content for a
given URL. Additionally, we share a sample dataset generated using our tool
comprising 4,056 legitimate and 5,666 phishing URLs along with their associated
resources. We also remark on the top correlated phishing features with their
associated class label found in our dataset. Our tool offers a comprehensive
resource set that can aid researchers in developing effective phishing
detection approaches.