作者
Ben Treves, Md Rayhanul Masud, Michalis Faloutsos
发表日期
2022/11/10
研讨会论文
2022 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM)
页码范围
510-513
出版商
IEEE
简介
Online forums contain a substantial amount of data, but very few studies have focused on mining the URLs posted by users. How can we fully leverage these posted URLs to extract as much information as possible about forum users? We perform a systematic study for extracting as much information as possible about forum users via their URL posting behavior. Within this study we develop a series of tools to analyze the data. Given a forum, we extract the following information: (a) basic statistics and a profile of the forum, (b) a profile for each user based on their referral to accounts in other platforms, (c) identification of communities within the forum, and (d) detection of malicious behavior. Most prior works focus on analyzing the text found in user posts rather than on URLs themselves, as we do here. In our study, we analyze three online security forums and find interesting results: (a) we identify 7% of the users …
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