Thesis Details

Sběr metadat uživatelů a zařízení z Darkwebu

Bachelor's Thesis Student: Gula Ján Academic Year: 2018/2019 Supervisor: Veselý Vladimír, Ing., Ph.D.
English title
User and Device Metadata Collection from the Darkweb
Language
Czech
Abstract

This bachelor's thesis solves the problem of anonymization on the Internet, that is widely used for dealing with illegal substances. This problem drives law enforcement agencies to be interested in web pages that represent markets with forbidden content which are hidden behind anonymity networks.

My goal is to focus on the biggest markets with such content and to gather as much information as possible about subjects that posture on similar types of web pages either as sellers or as buyers. I have resolved the given problem by choosing the most impactful markets according to the number of users signed in. I have become one of the users and applied algorithms for data scraping to get information from web pages into a structured form that is more suitable for a deeper analysis.

The results of this thesis will help law enforcement agencies with the analysis of metadata of users that commit illegal activities as they will not have to manually search through the illegal markets, and they will have all available data summed up in a structured form in a database. Unifying data into a structured form will help speeding up the investigation and address the biggest drug sellers.

Keywords

anonymity, onion routing, data scraping, network, darkweb

Department
Degree Programme
Information Technology
Files
Status
defended, grade C
Date
12 June 2019
Reviewer
Committee
Ryšavý Ondřej, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DIFS FIT BUT), předseda
Fuchs Petr, RNDr., Ph.D. (DMAT FEEC BUT), člen
Hradiš Michal, Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM FIT BUT), člen
Křena Bohuslav, Ing., Ph.D. (DITS FIT BUT), člen
Vašíček Zdeněk, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DCSY FIT BUT), člen
Citation
GULA, Ján. Sběr metadat uživatelů a zařízení z Darkwebu. Brno, 2019. Bachelor's Thesis. Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology. 2019-06-12. Supervised by Veselý Vladimír. Available from: https://www.fit.vut.cz/study/thesis/21557/
BibTeX
@bachelorsthesis{FITBT21557,
    author = "J\'{a}n Gula",
    type = "Bachelor's thesis",
    title = "Sb\v{e}r metadat u\v{z}ivatel\r{u} a za\v{r}\'{i}zen\'{i} z Darkwebu",
    school = "Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Information Technology",
    year = 2019,
    location = "Brno, CZ",
    language = "czech",
    url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/study/thesis/21557/"
}
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