An analysis of underground forums

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An analysis of underground forums
Botnet
Malware
Botnet/malware group
Exploit kits
Services	BlackHatWorld, Carders, HackSector, HackE1ite, Freehack, L33tCrew
Feature	Forum
Distribution vector
Target
Origin
Campaign
Operation/Working group
Vulnerability
CCProtocol
Date	2011 / 2011-11-02
Editor/Conference	Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Internet Measurement Conference
Link	http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~voelker/pubs/forums-imc11.pdf (Archive copy) DOI: 10.1145/2068816.2068824
Author	Marti Motoyama, Damon McCoy, Kirill Levchenko, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker
Type	Conference paper or presentation

Abstract

“ Underground forums, where participants exchange information on abusive tactics and engage in the sale of illegal goods and services, are a form of online social network (OSN). However, unlike traditional OSNs such as Facebook, in underground forums the pattern of communications does not simply encode pre-existing social relationships, but instead captures the dynamic trust relationships forged between mutually distrustful parties. In this paper, we empirically characterize six different underground forums — BlackHatWorld, Carders, HackSector, HackE1ite, Freehack, and L33tCrew — examining the properties of the social networks formed within, the content of the goods and services being exchanged, and lastly, how individuals gain and lose trust in this setting.

Bibtex

 @misc{2011BFR4507,
   editor = {Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM Conference on Internet Measurement Conference},
   author = {Marti Motoyama, Damon McCoy, Kirill Levchenko, Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker},
   title = {An analysis of underground forums},
   date = {02},
   month = Nov,
   year = {2011},
    doi = {10.1145/2068816.2068824},
   howpublished = {\url{http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~voelker/pubs/forums-imc11.pdf}},
 }