Uncovering the Cloak: A Systematic Review of Techniques Used to Conceal Phishing Websites

Phishing represents a cybersecurity attack strategy commonly employed by cybercriminals to unlawfully acquire sensitive user information, including passwords, account details, credit card data, and other personally identifiable information. websites bear striking resemblance their legitimate counterparts, thus rendering them inconspicuous challenging for an unsuspecting identify. Criminals phishing experts frequently leverage cloaking mechanisms evade detection software web crawlers. This paper provides comprehensive systematic review of primary studies conducted between 2012 2022 on using techniques anti-phishing entities based data extracted from Scopus, Web Science, Google Scholar. Different server-side client-side strategies, mechanisms, toolkits, blacklists, or ecosystems, such concepts have been taken as thematic outputs the study discussed in detail. literature (SLR) is one first reviews be analyzing current evasion used phishers, limitations outlined well.