Automated Analysis of Cybercriminal Markets

We have developed an automated, top-down approach for analyzing underground forums. Using natural language processing and machine learning, our approach can automatically generate high-level information about underground forums with high accuracy.

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About

This is a collaborative study among researchers from the International Computer Science Institute, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, and New York University.

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Code

Our code is available on github: https://github.com/ccied/ugforum-analysis. It includes code for extracting information about the type of a post, products bought/sold, the prices of products, and currency exchanges.

Data

We have used eight distinct forums to assess our tools: Antichat, Blackhat World, Carders, Darkode, Hack Forums, Hell, L33tCrew and Nulled.
Raw
  • Blackhat World (Dump): Contact authors
  • Nulled (Dump): Contact authors
  • Darkode (Scrape): Contact authors
  • Hack Forums (Scrape): Contact authors
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