Cyber Security: Hacker Web and ShodanMIS 510 Ali Hassan Alenizi, Farah J Jafar,

Nikhar Shah, Yirong Zhu

Introduction/ Background• Hacker Web:

o Database of hacking forumso Russian, Chinese, Arabic, English, Persiano Tracks forums and types of hacking communities are interested in

• Shodan:o APIs for extracting data regarding cyber vulnerabilityo Huge amount of information on network devices could be accessed

through Python methods• Research:

o Research questions formulated to extract data and analyze it giving meaning to the data from the two databases

Research Questions1. Do cultural differences trickle down to hacking, hacking topics, and hacking techniques? What are

the cultural implications found through the research? What is the probability that an Arabic hackers forum and an English hackers forum will discuss the same topics?

2. Given the increasing threat of social media attacks, attackers such as Syrian Electronic Army are increasingly using phishing and spamming attacks on different websites that are against the Syrian Government in the Syrian Civil War. My hypotheses question involves looking at the trend related to phishing attacks compared to other traditional types of security threats such as SQL injection.

3. The recent research posted on github reflects the backdoor of routers on Port 32764. From this Port, hackers would more likely be able to intrude because of the natural vulnerability on this port. So, from the global view, which countries or area are facing this same issue? Which areas suffer the most or have more potential risks and what does the distribution look like?

4. In this question, we would dig deeper into the 3rd question. What are the devices of these IP addresses really accessible for attacking and be able to intrude into right now. What are the locations distributed out there and how many devices for each country could be intrude through Port 32764?

Question 1: Excel - VctoolTop 30 ranked

threads for Vctool with weighted %.

Question 1: Excel - ArhackTop 30 ranked

threads for Arhack with weighted %.

Question 1: Probabilities

Question 1: Analysis• Arhack:

o Focus on Social Hacking with few Organizational Hacking threadso emails, social networks, sql injections, password hacking … etc

● Vctool:○ Focus on Organizational Hacking with few Social Hacking threads○ DDoS, botnet/bots, crypting, software cracks, coding ... etc

3.8% chance that Arhack members and Vctool members will talk about the same hacking conepts. Most of these are crypting, and social hacking.

Question 2:Extracted Dataset

Some of the extracted using the MySQL query

Question 2: Word Schema

Word Schema used to find related thread topics

Question 2:Mined Dataset

Some of the data mined dataset from the extracted dataset

Question 2: Analysis

Final Analysis:• Increasing Phishing related Threads• Increased Discussion of Phishing related activities• Arab Spring also changing hackers ideologies

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Question 3: Data Extraction

Question 3: Country Details

Question 3: 100 Vul_IPs100 Vulnerable IP Addresses Due to Port 32764 All Over the World

Question 3: Compared to What Shodan Map API Does

Shodan Map API Analyzes Port 32764 Based On Thousands of IP and Charges $19 !

Distributions Are Similar !!!

Prove Accuracy of Our Analysis!

Question 4: Deeper Analysis

• 55 Out Of the 100 Vulnerable IP Addresses of Port 32764 Could be truly attacked

• Within the 55 IP Addresses, 31 Devices Are Available For Locating Visual Positions

Question 4: Core Code

1. Get the Host Of Each Of the 100 Vulnerable IP Addresses 2. Test If the Port == 80 That Is Open To Public3. Then Get the Host IP4. At Last, If Able to Locate, Get the Latitude And Longitude

Question 4: 31 Target Devices31 Visual Devices That Could Be Targeted At In 100 Vulnerable IP

Addresses

Question 3 & 4： Summary

• Among All Of Vulnerable IP Addresses With Port 32764, About Half Could Be Intruded

• ⅓ Of the Host Port Could Be Visually Located On The Map

• The Top Three Areas Exposed To the Vulnerability Are United States, China, European Areas

References[1] Peterson, L. (n.d.). Hacking Diversity.Latoya Peterson. Retrieved February 25, 2014, from

http://latoyapeterson.com/presentations/hacking-diversity/

[2] Feuer, A. (2011, November 20). Culture Hacking. Adam Feuer. Retrieved February 25, 2014, from http://adamfeuer.com/blog/2011/11/20/culture-hacking/

[3] John Matherly, (2014, February 18). Shodan Blog. Introducing Shodan Maps, from http://shodanio.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/introducing-shodan-maps/

[4] Michael Horowitz (2014, January 24). How and why to check port 32764 on your router, from http://blogs.computerworld.com/network-security/23443/how-and-why-check-port-32764-your-router [5] John Scott-Railton (2013, June 19). A Call to Harm: New Malware Attacks Target the Syrian Opposition, from http://www.academia.edu/4231059/A_Call_to_Harm_New_Malware_Attacks_Target_the_Syrian_Opposition

[6] Mohamed N. El-Guindy (2013, December 25). Middle East Cyber Security Threat Report 2014, from http://www.academia.edu/5522905/Middle_East_Cyber_Security_Threat_Report_2014