Zero-Day Phishing Emails Corpus: 60,000 AI-Generated Phishing and Legitimate Emails

Kaggle hosts a corpus of 60,000 AI-generated emails. The description indicates the emails include phishing attempts, legitimate messages, and specific categories like Business Email Compromise (BEC) and cryptocurrency-related content. The author, organization, and collection date are unknown.

Use Cases

• Train machine learning classifiers to detect phishing emails based on AI-generated content.
• Benchmark detection systems against Business Email Compromise (BEC) scenarios mentioned in the description.
• Analyze linguistic patterns in AI-generated phishing lures involving cryptocurrency themes.
• Study the evolution of phishing tactics using synthetic, modern email examples.

Strengths

• Corpus contains 60,000 email examples.
• Includes specific, modern threat categories like Business Email Compromise (BEC) and cryptocurrency-themed phishing.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is known, but the distribution between phishing and legitimate emails is unspecified.
• Data may reflect bias inherent to the unspecified AI generation method and source.

Provenance

Source

kaggle

Collection Method

Likely generated by AI models for research or benchmarking purposes.