Sadia Afroz, Rebecca Sorla Portnoff, Greg Durrett, Jonathan Kummerfeld, Damon McCoy, Kirill Levchenko, and Vern Paxson
Underground forums are widely used by criminals to buy and sell a host of stolen items, datasets, resources, and criminal services. These forums contain important resources for understanding cybercrime. However, the number of forums, their size, and the domain expertise required to understand the markets makes manual exploration of these forums unscalable. In this work, we propose an automated, top-down approach for analyzing underground forums.