Publication Details
Workshop on Evidence Collection and Analysis of Webpages
webscrabing, HTTP, HTTPS, decoding
Cybercrimes such as ransomware, cyberbullying, scam, illicit darknet activities,
inappropriate sexual content distribution, or even phishing have a very unstable
nature when it comes to the collection of evidence. Webpages related to these
crimes are usually available only for a couple of days, sometimes even hours. The
workshop presents methods on how to effectively download, decode, parse and
archive such webpages. It focuses on a safe and auditable collection of valuable
(meta)data that can be later used as proof. The presentation outlines the theory
behind modern web design (HTML, CSS, Java/TypeScript), well-known libraries for
scraping, and decoding (e.g., Scrapy, Selenium) and current challenges (such as
single-page applications, access to dynamic content, execution of JavaScript).
The session includes demonstrations of the collection process and existing tools.
Participants will receive our open-source tool, which easily archives a given
URL content together with a basic set of metadata.
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author="Vladimír {Veselý}",
title="Workshop on Evidence Collection and Analysis of Webpages",
year="2019",
pages="58",
address="Kuala Lumpur",
url="https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/12148/",
note="presentation"
}