A Proposed Method of Information Mining for Cyber Black Market Oriented to Tor Anonymous Network
Guangxuan Chen, Guangxiao Chen, Qiang Liu, Bo Hu, Lei Zhang · 2023
With the development of information technology, the network black industry continues to expand, and cybercrime is becoming increasingly rampant. As a hotbed of crime, the darknet, with its anonymity, has also become a new front for online black market, bringing huge challenges to investigation and digital forensics. This article designs an automated darknet data crawling program that can achieve protocol conversion between darknet and surface networks, as well as data crawling of target sites on darknet. At the same time, the developed visualization program and data analysis program can achieve the display of target data in multiple dimensions. Combined with the periphery investigation technology to the website and social engineering, it can realize the mining of the criminal intelligence of the hidden network and provide reference for the investigation department.