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Criminal Information Mining
Machine Learning for Authorship Attribution and Cyber Forensics
  • Farkhund Iqbal
  • Mourad Debbabi
  • Benjamin C. M. Fung
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
12-5-2020
Abstract

In the previous chapters, the different aspects of the authorship analysis problem were discussed. This chapter will propose a framework for extracting criminal information from the textual content of suspicious online messages. Archives of online messages, including chat logs, e-mails, web forums, and blogs, often contain an enormous amount of forensically relevant information about potential suspects and their illegitimate activities. Such information is usually found in either the header or body of an online document. The IP addresses, hostnames, sender and recipient addresses contained in the e-mail header, the user ID used in chats, and the screen names used in web-based communication help reveal information at the user or application level. For instance, information extracted from a suspicious e-mail corpus helps us to learn who the senders and recipients are, how often they communicate, and how many types of communities/cliques there are in a dataset. Such information also gives us an insight into the inter and intra-community patterns of communication. A clique or a community is a group of users who have an online communication link between them. Header content or user-level information is easy to extract and straightforward to use for the purposes of investigation.

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Disciplines
Indexed in Scopus
No
Open Access
No
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61675-5_10
Citation Information
Farkhund Iqbal, Mourad Debbabi and Benjamin C. M. Fung. "Criminal Information Mining" Machine Learning for Authorship Attribution and Cyber Forensics (2020) p. 121 - 137 ISSN: <a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/2364-9488" target="_blank">2364-9488</a>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/farkhund-iqbal/156/