<![CDATA[Phishing URL detection is one of the main challenges in cybersecurity, considering the ever-increasing threats affecting internet users globally. This research aims to develop a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) based deep learning model to detect phishing URLs with high accuracy. The dataset used consists of 651,191 URLs, which are divided into four categories: benign, defacement, phishing, and malware. The dataset is processed through preprocessing stages, including URL cleaning and feature extraction. The LSTM model is applied with optimized hyperparameter configurations to learn patterns from the dataset. The results showed that the model was able to achieve significant accuracy during the training and validation process. Evaluation on external datasets shows that the model performs well in the benign and defacement categories, with relatively high precision and recall. However, challenges were identified in the malware and phishing categories, where recall was low due to dataset imbalance and lack of feature representation. Further analysis showed a model bias towards the majority class, as well as difficulty in detecting URLs in the minority class. This research shows the potential of using LSTM-based deep learning in phishing URL detection, but also emphasizes the importance of further optimization, such as adjusting class weights, oversampling, or using additional features. It is hoped that the resulting model can be an initial solution in improving cyber security, especially in detecting phishing threats in real-time.]]>
