Hidden Link Headline Detection Method Based on Multi-Modal Features

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1671-1122.2026.03.012

Abstract

Abstract:

As the growing phenomenon of web page tampering with implanted hidden links, and the popularity of automatic detection methods, hidden link headline implantation has become one of the important factors endangering network security. Currently, the detection rate of unimodal, natural language processing-based detection techniques gradually decreases as hidden link attackers adopt disguises such as morphological close characters, interference symbols, and emoticons. To address this problem, this paper proposed a multimodal detection method based on image features and text features. The proposed method first extracted the semantic features and image features of the headline text with BERT and ResNet respectively, and then based on the gate function and multi-headed attention methods, the features were deeply fused to achieve the classification of hidden link headlines. Experimental results on the evaluation dataset show that the recognition accuracy of the proposed method can reach 0.966, which is about 1 percentage points higher than that of the benchmark method. This indicates that the image features can effectively overcome the shortage that text features cannot cope with the problem of headline disguise.

Key words: hidden link headline detection, BERT, ResNet, multi-modal feature fusion

CLC Number:

TP309

YIN Jie, LIU Jiayin, HUANG Xiaoyu, LAN Haoliang, XIE Wenwei. Hidden Link Headline Detection Method Based on Multi-Modal Features[J]. Netinfo Security, 2026, 26(3): 462-470.

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类型编号	标题类型	样本数量
0	正常网页标题	11938
1	赌博类网站标题	2486
2	情色类网站标题	2023
3	其他异常标题	486

层名称	输出尺寸	f 0层
Conv1	112×112	7×7, 64, stride 2 3×3max pool, stride 2
Conv2_x	28×28	$\left[ \begin{matrix} 1\times 1 & 64 \\ 3\times 3 & 64 \\ 1\times 1 & 256 \\ \end{matrix} \right]\times 3$
Conv3_x	28×28	$\left[ \begin{matrix} 1\times 1 & 128 \\ 3\times 3 & 128 \\ 1\times 1 & 512 \\ \end{matrix} \right]\times 4$
Conv4_x	14×14	$\left[ \begin{matrix} 1\times 1 & 256 \\ 3\times 3 & 256 \\ 1\times 1 & 1024 \\ \end{matrix} \right]\times 6$
Conv5_x	7×7	$\left[ \begin{matrix} 1\times 1 & 512 \\ 3\times 3 & 512 \\ 1\times 1 & 2048 \\ \end{matrix} \right]\times 3$
Fc layer	1×1	Average_pool, 1000-d fc

参数名	参数值
文本维度	32
图像维度	224
BERT多头注意力头的个数/个	8
BERT隐藏层层数/层	4
[CLS]张量维度	256
多头注意力个数/个	4
优化算法	Adam
批大小	8
初始学习率	0.001
最终学习率	0.0001

方法	Accuracy	Precision	Recall	F1
n-gram（二元）	0.957	0.928	0.926	0.927
CART	0.918	0.844	0.886	0.864
GBDT	0.942	0.929	0.870	0.899
RF	0.952	0.918	0.920	0.919
单独使用BERT	0.956	0.916	0.936	0.926
单独使用ResNet	0.845	0.773	0.674	0.720
本文方法	0.966	0.919	0.970	0.944

算法	Accuracy	Precision	Recall	F1
+简单融合模型	0.954	0.919	0.926	0.922
+门函数	0.958	0.910	0.950	0.930
+注意力机制	0.956	0.913	0.942	0.927
本文方法	0.962	0.933	0.940	0.936