PhishSentry

🛡️ Phishing Detection System

An end-to-end Phishing Detection system built with a Chrome Extension and a Flask-based Web App. It detects phishing websites using machine learning and frontend heuristics, providing users real-time safety information.

🚀 Features

• 🔍 Chrome Extension to analyze the current tab
  
• 🧠 ML-based prediction using URL features
  
• ⚙️ Heuristic checks (e.g. IP in URL, favicon mismatch, suspicious anchors)
  
• 🌐 Flask backend for API and web interface
  
• 📤 Real-time classification (Phishing or Legitimate)
  
• 📊 Web dashboard to visualize predictions
  

🧰 Tech Stack

• Frontend: JavaScript (Chrome Extension)
  
• Backend: Python Flask
  
• ML: Trained model with heuristic-based feature extraction
  
• API: Google Safe Browsing or IPQualityScore (optional)
  
• Hosting: Localhost / Cloud Platform (optional)
  

Built With

• jupyter-notebook
• python