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Deviance in Social Media and Social Cyber Forensics pp 67–77Cite as

Social Cyber Forensics (SCF): Uncovering Hidden Relationships

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In this chapter, we will introduce the concept of social cyber forensics (SCF) and its usability. Then, we will introduce a tool, i.e., Maltego that can be used to study the cross-media affiliation and uncover hidden relations among different ODGs . In Sect. 4.2 we will provide three stepwise methodologies that can be followed to reach the desired outcome of analysis (e.g., uncovering the hidden relationship between Twitter accounts and a set of websites or blog sites, websites or blog sites and other websites or blog sites, and infer the ownership of a set of websites or blog sites). These methodologies have been tested during many cyber propaganda campaigns to associate and infer the relationships between different online groups. We also provide hands-on exercises to practice each of the methodologies introduced.

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Notes

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    Google Analytics: https://analytics.google.com/.

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    PeekYou: http://www.peekyou.com/.

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    Metagoofil: http://www.edge-security.com/metagoofil.php.

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    Shodan: https://www.shodan.io/.

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    Paterva Ltd: https://www.paterva.com/.

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    Trident Juncture 2015 exercise: https://jfcbs.nato.int/trident-juncture.

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    Exercise Anakonda 2016: http://www.eur.army.mil/anakonda/.

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    Brilliant Jump 2016 exercise: https://tinyurl.com/y7we5q34.

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    If the website points to a WTC, it means that the website HTML code contains the WTC .

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    If the WTC point to the website, it does not necessarily mean that the WTC is embedded in the website HTML, but it does mean that the WTC owner added that website to their list of to be tracked websites.

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  1. Department of Journalism, Media & Computing, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA

    Samer Al-khateeb

  2. Information Science Department, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, USA

    Nitin Agarwal

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Al-khateeb, S., Agarwal, N. (2019). Social Cyber Forensics (SCF): Uncovering Hidden Relationships. In: Deviance in Social Media and Social Cyber Forensics. SpringerBriefs in Cybersecurity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13690-1_4

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