DARKWEB IMAGE SCRAPPER: An Open Source Intelligence Tool

Abstract

The darkweb has always been a supreme source for conducting web-based illegal activities. Cyber-criminals have been consistently using the darkweb for providing malicious services and carrying out criminal activities. With a multitude of networks that are volunteered, it is hard to trace down these malicious services and service providers. OSNIT is a method that is used to accumulate information on a specific targeted entity by gathering the data available publicly. Implementing open source intelligence on the Tor-based network is a difficult task for both developers and researchers due to the sophisticated onion routing feature. Onion routing provides a strong anonymity feature for its users. A tool is introduced through this work for OSNIT on the darkweb. The tool is expected to help law enforcement agencies and threat researchers to automate the task of extraction of pictorial intelligence from different malicious sites in the darkweb.