{ "namespace": "dark-web", "expanded": "Dark Web", "description": "Criminal motivation on the dark web: A categorisation model for law enforcement. ref: Janis Dalins, Campbell Wilson, Mark Carman. Taxonomy updated by MISP Project", "version": 3, "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" } ], "values": [ { "predicate": "topic", "entry": [ { "value": "drugs-narcotics", "expanded": "Drugs/Narcotics", "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": "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": "finance", "expanded": "Finance", "description": "Any monetary/currency/exchangeable materials. Includes carding, Bitcoin, Litecoin etc." }, { "value": "cash-in", "expanded": "Cash-in", "description": "Buying parts of assets, conversion from liquid assets, currency, etc." }, { "value": "cash-out", "expanded": "Cash-out", "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": "Identification/Credentials", "description": "Materials used for providing/establishing identification with third parties. Examples include passports, driver licenses and login credentials." }, { "value": "intellectual-property-copyright-materials", "expanded": "Intellectual Property/Copyright Materials", "description": "Otherwise lawful materials stored, transferred or made available without consent of their legal rights holders." }, { "value": "pornography-adult", "expanded": "Pornography - Adult", "description": "Lawful, ethical pornography (i.e. involving only consenting adults)." }, { "value": "pornography-child-exploitation", "expanded": "Pornography - Child (Child Exploitation)", "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": "Pornography - Illicit or Illegal", "description": "Illegal pornography NOT including children/child abuse. Includes bestiality, stolen/revenge porn, hidden cameras etc." }, { "value": "search-engine-index", "expanded": "Search Engine/Index", "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": "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": "credit-card", "expanded": "Credit-Card", "description": "Credit cards and payments materials" }, { "value": "counteir-feit-materials", "expanded": "Counter-feit materials", "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": "Other not illegal", "description": "Material not of interest to law enforcement - e.g. personal sites, Facebook mirrors." }, { "value": "legitimate", "expanded": "Legitimate", "description": "Legitimate websites" }, { "value": "chat", "expanded": "Chats platforms", "description": "Chats space or equivalent, which are not forums" }, { "value": "mixer", "expanded": "Mixer", "description": "Anonymization tools for crypto-currencies transactions" } ] }, { "predicate": "motivation", "entry": [ { "value": "education-training", "expanded": "Education & Training", "description": "Materials providing instruction - e.g. ‘how to’ guides" }, { "value": "file-sharing", "expanded": "File Sharing", "description": "General file sharing, typically (but not limited to) movie/image sharing" }, { "value": "forum", "expanded": "Forum", "description": "Sites specifically designed for multiple users to communicate as peers" }, { "value": "wiki", "expanded": "Wiki", "description": "Wiki pages, documentation and information display" }, { "value": "hosting", "expanded": "Hosting", "description": "Hosting providers, e-mails, websites, file-storage 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": "Information Sharing/Reportage", "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": "marketplace-for-sale", "expanded": "Marketplace/For Sale", "description": "Services/goods for sale, regardless of means of payment." }, { "value": "recruitment-advocacy", "expanded": "Recruitment/Advocacy", "description": "Propaganda" }, { "value": "system-placeholder", "expanded": "System/Placeholder", "description": "Automatically generated content, not designed for any identifiable purpose other than diagnostics - e.g. “It Works” message provided by default by Apache2" } ] }, { "predicate": "structure", "entry": [ { "value": "incomplete", "expanded": "Imcomplete websites or information", "description": "Websites and pages that are unable to load completely properly" }, { "value": "captcha", "expanded": "Captcha and Solvers", "description": "Captchas and solvers elements" }, { "value": "LoginForms", "expanded": "Logins forms and gates", "description": "Authentification pages, login page, login forms that block access to an internal part of a website." }, { "value": "police-notice", "expanded": "Police Notice", "description": "Closed websites, with police-equivalent banners" }, { "value": "test", "expanded": "Test", "description": "Test websites without any real consequences or effects" } ] } ] }