Phishing Catcher
Real-time phishing domain detection via Certificate Transparency logs
phishing_catcher is a security monitoring tool designed to detect potential phishing domains in near real time by analyzing TLS certificate issuance events. It listens to Certificate Transparency (CT) logs through the CertStream API and evaluates newly issued certificates as they appear. Each certificate often contains one or more domain names, which the tool analyzes to determine whether they resemble suspicious or phishing-related domains. phishing_catcher applies a configurable scoring mechanism that assigns numeric values to certain keywords, patterns, or top-level domains found within certificate domain names. ...