When there are phishing attacks on the broker login page, detection of similar domain names shows that 87% of the imitated sites have a distance of ≤2 from the original domain name Levenshtein (Schwab.com and Schvvab.com), and the SSL certificate validity ratio is just 32% (99.9% for original platforms). Phishing pages have abnormal loading speeds (average 3.2 seconds vs. legitimate pages 0.8 seconds) as per the APWG 2024 report, and keyloggers are planted in 62% of cases (data leakage risk is increased by 47 times). In relation to content features, 78% of phishing pages contain spelling mistakes (an average of 4.7 per page), and the font rendering deviation rate is ≥12% (≤3% for legitimate pages).
Of the technical detection indicators, the rate that phishing sites would utilize non-standard ports (such as 8080) is up to 89% (legitimate broker login forces HTTPS port 443), and the rate of TLS certificate issuers blocked by ICANN is 68%. For the year 2023, phishing attacks impersonating Interactive Brokers have cost users $23 million, per the 2023 FBI Internet Crime Report. 92% of these pages used privacy protection services in WHOIS lookups (just 19% on compliant platforms). Browser security detection shows that the presence rate of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities for phishing sites is 41% (0.07% on compliant platforms), and there is no DMARC authentication (configuration rate is only 5% vs. 98% on compliant platforms).
The user interaction behaviors vary significantly: The likelihood that phishing sites request SMS verification codes (instead of FIDO2 hardware keys) is 94%, and 73% of cases disable the two-factor authentication (2FA) functionality. According to Proofpoint research, the frequency of occurrence of form position deviation (e.g., button offset ≥8 pixels) on phishing broker login pages is 87%, and the paste functionality in password fields is disabled (the allowed frequency on legitimate platforms is 99%). In the 2024 Coinbase phishing, the error in the fake login page mimicking the brand color was ΔE≥6.5 (professional design level ΔE≤1.5), and dynamic risk warnings (e.g., remote login warnings) were missing.
Network traffic analysis shows that the median third-party resource request count of phishing pages is 23 (7 for the legitimate ones) out of which 92% fetch resources from foreign servers (e.g., Russian/Nigerian ips). In the SSL handshake, the strength test of the encryption suite showed that the proportion of phishing sites that used SHA-1 reached 67% (compliant platforms demand SHA-256). According to SANS Institute tests, phishing broker login pages triggered on average 7.2 browser Security warnings (0.1 for legitimate pages), and the HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) header missing rate was 98%.
Defense mechanism comparison: Legitimate websites use AI anti-phishing tools (e.g., Darktrace) with ≤0.3-second detection response time and 99.3% interception accuracy rate, while phishing sites cannot pass EV SSL certificate validation (usage rate 0% vs. 89% in finance). User education statistics show that phishing link identification accuracy rate is only 38% (simulation test), but the likelihood of being attacked drops by 92% for users with password managers enabled. According to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, it is on average 7 steps to carry out penetration in broker login phishing attacks, but a risk control system of a legitimate platform can break the attack chain at step 2.3.