Dark Web—Onion Hidden Service Discovery and Crawling for Profiling Morphing, Unstructured Crime and Vulnerabilities Prediction

Abstract

The mainstream use of the Internet and mobile technology has made it easier to reach a wide range of globalized resources. By having the numerous lawful design principles offered by Internet merchants, unregulated cyber terrorist and hacking markets by intruders actively working at online platform. Illicit web store and markets are capitalizing on the privacy and at globalized existence on the Internet, posing problems, hidden unsecure environment and obstacles for policing and security agencies. The proposed work offers a summary of the anonymous crime favored place at Dark Web and recent research on illegal Internet drug trafficking, human trafficking, terrorist funding and recruitment, money laundering, contract hacking, organ trafficking, cracked key distribution, killing contracts, forged passport, illegal post sharing and forum discussion, fraud and credit card selling, weapons order, and cybercrime and child sexual abuse markets in the Dark Web. The work presented here outlines the Tor network crawling procedure and evaluation of hidden links for analysis with the crawling of drug trafficking, Criminal activity-related signatures and posts put light on the negative side of the Dark Web platform and their services, techniques and methods use for data crawling, pattern recognition and behavior understanding of criminals followed by terrorist organizations, campaigning on social network platform using hidden identities for recruitment, fundraising and radicalization.