PhishEvolve: Open-source research software for reproducible phishing URL detection studies

Abstract

PhishEvolve is an open-source software package for phishing URL inspection. The software integrates a browser extension, a cloud-hosted blacklist repository containing more than 7000 phishing URLs, and an ONNX-compatible inference service within a cloud–edge architecture. Source code, deployment documentation, software artifacts, and example configurations are publicly available through GitHub and Zenodo. The software has been applied in research on phishing URL detection and browser-assisted cybersecurity systems. PhishEvolve provides software components for URL inspection, blacklist-assisted verification, and ONNX-based URL analysis in cybersecurity research and software development activities.