Phishing Detection API for URLs and Domains

Q: What does the phishing detection API check?

The API checks URLs and domains for phishing indicators such as credential theft pages, brand impersonation, suspicious redirects, scam landing pages, risky reputation signals, and malware-related infrastructure.

Q: Can the API scan full URLs, not only domains?

Yes. Use the URL scanner endpoint when the full path, redirect chain, page metadata, screenshots, or content-level behavior matters. Use the domain checker endpoint for fast host-level reputation decisions.

Q: Where can phishing detection be integrated?

Teams use phishing detection in email security, SMS and messaging protection, user-generated content moderation, SOAR playbooks, SIEM enrichment, browser extensions, help desks, and abuse review queues.

Detect phishing URLs, fake login pages, impersonation domains, and suspicious redirects

Gridinsoft Inspector helps security teams classify suspicious links before users click. Use one API to check phishing pages, scam funnels, impersonation domains, malware-adjacent infrastructure, short-link redirects, and risky URLs submitted through email, chat, forms, or user content.

Phishing URL detection

Fake login and impersonation checks

Redirect-aware scanning

Domain reputation context

SOAR and SIEM enrichment

Signals used for phishing decisions

Phishing detection works best when a verdict is backed by context. Inspector combines URL, domain, redirect, reputation, category, certificate, DNS, and page-level indicators so automated systems can make a clear decision and analysts can review the evidence.

Credential theft patterns

Identify fake login pages, payment capture pages, copied brand experiences, suspicious forms, and social-engineering flows.

Redirect and cloaking context

Follow shortened or tracking links and expose the effective destination behind multi-hop redirect chains.

Domain and infrastructure risk

Use domain reputation, risk score, categories, DNS, certificate data, and related report context to support the phishing verdict.

Where to integrate phishing detection

Email and help desk triage

Enrich reported links with a verdict before analysts open the destination or escalate an abuse ticket.

Messaging and UGC moderation

Check links posted in chats, profiles, comments, marketplaces, forms, and customer-submitted content.

SOAR playbooks and SIEM alerts

Attach phishing verdicts, redirect chain, reputation score, and report links to automation and incident response workflows.

Choose URL scanning or domain reputation

Use URL scanning when the exact link matters

Choose the URL Scanner API for phishing links, short links, redirects, path-specific pages, screenshots, metadata, page behavior, and suspicious content that may not affect the whole domain.

Review URL Scanner API

Use domain reputation for fast host-level decisions

Choose the Domain Reputation API for DNS policy, signup screening, host allow or block decisions, and quick enrichment where checking the full page is not required.

Review Domain API

Phishing detection API FAQ

What does the phishing detection API check?

It checks suspicious URLs and domains for credential theft, impersonation, scam pages, risky redirects, domain reputation, malware-adjacent infrastructure, and related page signals.

Can the API scan full URLs, not only domains?

Yes. Use URL scanning when the full path, redirect chain, page metadata, screenshots, or content behavior matters. Use domain reputation for faster host-level checks.

Where can phishing detection be integrated?

Common integrations include email security, SMS and messaging protection, user-generated content moderation, SOAR playbooks, SIEM enrichment, browser extensions, and abuse review queues.