misp-taxonomies/dark-web/machinetag.json

{
  "namespace": "dark-web",
  "expanded": "Dark Web",
  "description": "Criminal motivation and content detection the dark web: A categorisation model for law enforcement. ref: Janis Dalins, Campbell Wilson, Mark Carman. Taxonomy updated by MISP Project and extended by the JRC (Joint Research Centre) of the European Commission.",
  "version": 5,
  "predicates": [
    {
      "value": "topic",
      "description": "Topic associated with the materials tagged",
      "expanded": "Topic"
    },
    {
      "value": "motivation",
      "description": "Motivation with the materials tagged",
      "expanded": "Motivation"
    },
    {
      "value": "structure",
      "description": "Structure of the materials tagged",
      "expanded": "Structure"
    },
    {
      "value": "service",
      "description": "Information related to an Dark-Web service",
      "expanded": "Service"
    },
    {
      "value": "content",
      "description": "Identifiable entities and information contained in a Dark-Web service",
      "expanded": "Content"
    }
  ],
  "values": [
    {
      "predicate": "topic",
      "entry": [
        {
          "value": "drugs-narcotics",
          "expanded": "drugsNarcotics",
          "description": "Illegal drugs/chemical compounds for consumption/ingestion - either via blanket unlawfulness (e.g. proscribed drugs) or via unlawful access (e.g. prescription-only/restricted medications sold without lawful accessibility)."
        },
        {
          "value": "electronics",
          "expanded": "electronics",
          "description": "Electronics and high tech materials, described or to sell for example."
        },
        {
          "value": "finance",
          "expanded": "finance",
          "description": "Any monetary/currency/exchangeable materials. Includes carding, Paypal etc."
        },
        {
          "value": "finance-crypto",
          "expanded": "cryptoFinance",
          "description": "Any monetary/currency/exchangeable materials based on cryptocurrencies. Includes Bitcoin, Litecoin etc."
        },
        {
          "value": "credit-card",
          "expanded": "creditCard",
          "description": "Credit cards and payments materials"
        },
        {
          "value": "cash-in",
          "expanded": "cashIn",
          "description": "Buying parts of assets, conversion from liquid assets, currency, etc."
        },
        {
          "value": "cash-out",
          "expanded": "cashOut",
          "description": "Selling parts of assets, conversion to liquid assets, currency, etc."
        },
        {
          "value": "escrow",
          "expanded": "escrow",
          "description": "Third party keeping assets in behalf of two other parties making a transactions."
        },
        {
          "value": "hacking",
          "expanded": "hacking",
          "description": "Materials relating to the illegal access to or alteration of data and/or electronic services."
        },
        {
          "value": "identification-credentials",
          "expanded": "identificationCredentials",
          "description": "Materials used for providing/establishing identification with third parties. Examples include passports, driver licenses and login credentials."
        },
        {
          "value": "intellectual-property-copyright-materials",
          "expanded": "intellectualPropertyCopyrightMaterials",
          "description": "Otherwise lawful materials stored, transferred or made available without consent of their legal rights holders."
        },
        {
          "value": "pornography-adult",
          "expanded": "pornographyAdult",
          "description": "Lawful, ethical pornography (i.e. involving only consenting adults)."
        },
        {
          "value": "pornography-child-exploitation",
          "expanded": "pornographyChild(ChildExploitation)",
          "description": "Child abuse materials (aka child pornography), including 'fantasy' fiction materials, CGI. Also includes the provision/offering of child abuse materials and/or activities"
        },
        {
          "value": "pornography-illicit-or-illegal",
          "expanded": "pornographyIllicitOrIllegal",
          "description": "Illegal pornography NOT including children/child abuse. Includes bestiality, stolen/revenge porn, hidden cameras etc."
        },
        {
          "value": "search-engine-index",
          "expanded": "searchEngineIndex",
          "description": "Site providing links/references to other sites/services. Referred to as a ‘nexus’ by (Moore and Rid, 2016)"
        },
        {
          "value": "unclear",
          "expanded": "unclear",
          "description": "Unable to completely establish topic of material."
        },
        {
          "value": "extremism",
          "expanded": "extremism",
          "description": "Illegal or ‘of concern’ levels of extremist ideology. Note this does not provide blanket coverage of fundamentalist ideologies and dogma - only those associated with illegal acts. Socialist/anarchist/religious materials (for example) will not be included unless inclusive or indicative of associated illegal conduct, such as hate crimes."
        },
        {
          "value": "violence",
          "expanded": "violence",
          "description": "Materials relating to violence against persons or property."
        },
        {
          "value": "weapons",
          "expanded": "weapons",
          "description": "Materials specifically associated with materials and/or items for use in violent acts against persons or property. Examples include firearms and bomb-making ingredients."
        },
        {
          "value": "softwares",
          "expanded": "softwares",
          "description": "Illegal or armful software distribution"
        },
        {
          "value": "counteir-feit-materials",
          "expanded": "counterFeitMaterials",
          "description": "Fake identification papers."
        },
        {
          "value": "gambling",
          "expanded": "gambling",
          "description": "Games involving money"
        },
        {
          "value": "library",
          "expanded": "library",
          "description": "Library or list of books"
        },
        {
          "value": "other-not-illegal",
          "expanded": "otherNotIllegal",
          "description": "Material not of interest to law enforcement - e.g. personal sites, Facebook mirrors."
        },
        {
          "value": "legitimate",
          "expanded": "legitimate",
          "description": "Legitimate websites"
        },
        {
          "value": "chat",
          "expanded": "chatsPlatforms",
          "description": "Chats space or equivalent, which are not forums"
        },
        {
          "value": "mixer",
          "expanded": "mixer",
          "description": "Anonymization tools for crypto-currencies transactions"
        },
        {
          "value": "mystery-box",
          "expanded": "mysteryBox",
          "description": "Mystery Box seller"
        },
        {
          "value": "anonymizer",
          "expanded": "anonymizer",
          "description": "Anonymization tools"
        },
        {
          "value": "vpn-provider",
          "expanded": "vpnProvider",
          "description": "Provides VPN services and related"
        },
        {
          "value": "email-provider",
          "expanded": "emailProvider",
          "description": "Provides e-mail services and related"
        },
        {
          "value": "ponies",
          "expanded": "ponies",
          "description": "self-explanatory. It's ponies"
        },
        {
          "value": "games",
          "expanded": "games",
          "description": "Flash or online games"
        },
        {
          "value": "parody",
          "expanded": "parodyOrJoke",
          "description": "Meme, Parody, Jokes, Trolling, ..."
        },
        {
          "value": "whistleblower",
          "expanded": "whistleblower",
          "description": "Exposition and sharing of confidential information with protection of the witness in mind"
        },
        {
          "value": "ransomware-group",
          "expanded": "ransomwareGroup",
          "description": "Ransomware group PR or leak website"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "predicate": "motivation",
      "entry": [
        {
          "value": "education-training",
          "expanded": "educationTraining",
          "description": "Materials providing instruction - e.g. ‘how to’ guides"
        },
        {
          "value": "wiki",
          "expanded": "wiki",
          "description": "Wiki pages, documentation and information display"
        },
        {
          "value": "forum",
          "expanded": "forum",
          "description": "Sites specifically designed for multiple users to communicate as peers"
        },
        {
          "value": "file-sharing",
          "expanded": "fileSharing",
          "description": "General file sharing, typically (but not limited to) movie/image sharing"
        },
        {
          "value": "hosting",
          "expanded": "hosting",
          "description": "Hosting providers, e-mails, websites, file-storage etc."
        },
        {
          "value": "ddos-services",
          "expanded": "ddosServices",
          "description": "Stresser, Booter, DDoSer, DDoS as a Service provider, DDoS tools, etc."
        },
        {
          "value": "general",
          "expanded": "general",
          "description": "Materials not covered by the other motivations. Typically, materials of a nature not of interest to law enforcement.  For example, personal biography sites."
        },
        {
          "value": "information-sharing-reportage",
          "expanded": "InformationSharingReportage",
          "description": "Journalism/reporting on topics. Can include biased coverage, but obvious propaganda materials are covered by Recruitment/Advocacy."
        },
        {
          "value": "scam",
          "expanded": "scam",
          "description": "Intentional confidence trick to fraud people or group of people"
        },
        {
          "value": "political-speech",
          "expanded": "politicalSpeech",
          "description": "Political, activism, without extremism."
        },
        {
          "value": "conspirationist",
          "expanded": "conspirationist",
          "description": "Conspirationist content, fake news, etc."
        },
        {
          "value": "hate-speech",
          "expanded": "hateSpeech",
          "description": "Racism, violent, hate... speech."
        },
        {
          "value": "religious",
          "expanded": "religious",
          "description": "Religious, faith, doctrinal related content."
        },
        {
          "value": "marketplace-for-sale",
          "expanded": "marketplaceForSale",
          "description": "Services/goods for sale, regardless of means of payment."
        },
        {
          "value": "smuggling",
          "expanded": "smuggling",
          "description": "Information or trading of wild animals, prohibited goods, ... "
        },
        {
          "value": "recruitment-advocacy",
          "expanded": "recruitmentAdvocacy",
          "description": "Propaganda"
        },
        {
          "value": "system-placeholder",
          "expanded": "systemPlaceholder",
          "description": "Automatically generated content, not designed for any identifiable purpose other than diagnostics - e.g. “It Works” message provided by default by Apache2"
        },
        {
          "value": "unclear",
          "expanded": "unclear",
          "description": "Unable to completely establish motivation of material."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "predicate": "structure",
      "entry": [
        {
          "value": "incomplete",
          "expanded": "incomplete",
          "description": "Websites and pages that are unable to load completely properly"
        },
        {
          "value": "captcha",
          "expanded": "captcha",
          "description": "Captchas and solvers elements"
        },
        {
          "value": "login-forms",
          "expanded": "loginForms",
          "description": "Authentication pages, login page, login forms that block access to an internal part of a website."
        },
        {
          "value": "contact-forms",
          "expanded": "contactForms",
          "description": "Forms to perform a contact request, send an e-mail, fill information, enter a password, ..."
        },
        {
          "value": "encryption-keys",
          "expanded": "encryptionKeys",
          "description": "e.g. PGP Keys, passwords, ..."
        },
        {
          "value": "police-notice",
          "expanded": "policeNotice",
          "description": "Closed websites, with police-equivalent banners"
        },
        {
          "value": "legal-statement",
          "expanded": "legalStatement",
          "description": "RGPD statement, Privacy-policy, guidelines of a websites or forum..."
        },
        {
          "value": "test",
          "expanded": "test",
          "description": "Test websites without any real consequences or effects"
        },
        {
          "value": "videos",
          "expanded": "videos",
          "description": "Videos and streaming"
        },
        {
          "value": "unclear",
          "expanded": "unclear",
          "description": "Unable to completely establish structure of material."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "predicate": "service",
      "entry": [
        {
          "value": "url",
          "expanded": "url",
          "description": "Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of a dark-web. The url should indicate a protocol (http), a hostname (www.example.com), and a file name (index.html). Example: http://www.example.com/index.html"
        },
        {
          "value": "content-type",
          "expanded": "contentType",
          "description": "Content-Type representaton headerused to indicate the original media type of the resource (prior to any content encoding applied for sending). https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Type"
        },
        {
          "value": "path",
          "expanded": "path",
          "description": "The URL path is the string of information that comes after the top level domain name "
        },
        {
          "value": "detection-date",
          "expanded": "detectionDate",
          "description": "Date in which the dark-web was detected. The date should be in ISO 8601 format. Example: 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z"
        },
        {
          "value": "network-protocol",
          "expanded": "networkProtocol",
          "description": "Network protocol used to access the dark-web site (e.g., HTTP, HTTPS)"
        },
        {
          "value": "port",
          "expanded": "port",
          "description": "Port number where the dark-web service is being offered"
        },
        {
          "value": "network",
          "expanded": "network",
          "description": "Overlay network  (darknet) that host the service or content"
        },
        {
          "value": "found-at",
          "expanded": "foundAt",
          "description": "Domain or service where the dark-web where found at"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "predicate": "content",
      "entry": [
        {
          "value": "sha1sum",
          "expanded": "sha1sum",
          "description": "SHA-1 (Secure Hash Algorithm 1) hash of the HTML or objectName content"
        },
        {
          "value": "sha256sum",
          "expanded": "sha256sum",
          "description": "SHA-256 hash of the HTML or objectName content"
        },
        {
          "value": "ssdeep",
          "expanded": "ssdeep",
          "description": "ssdeep fuzzy hash of the HTML or objectName content"
        },
        {
          "value": "language",
          "expanded": "language",
          "description": "Detected language of the service in ISO 639‑1 Code. Example: en"
        },
        {
          "value": "html",
          "expanded": "html",
          "description": "HyperText Markup Language (HTML) used in a website"
        },
        {
          "value": "css",
          "expanded": "css",
          "description": "CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) used in a dark-web site"
        },
        {
          "value": "text",
          "expanded": "text",
          "description": "Content of the dark-web service without HTML tags"
        },
        {
          "value": "page-title",
          "expanded": "pageTitle",
          "description": "HTML <title> tag content of a dark-web site"
        },
        {
          "value": "phone-number",
          "expanded": "phoneNumber",
          "description": "Phone number identified in the dark-web site"
        },
        {
          "value": "creditCard",
          "expanded": "creditCard",
          "description": "Credit card identified in the dark-web site"
        },
        {
          "value": "email",
          "expanded": "email",
          "description": "Email address identified in the dark-web site"
        },
        {
          "value": "pgp-public-key-block",
          "expanded": "pgpPublicKeyBlock",
          "description": "PGP public key block identified in the dark-web site"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}