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This paper reports the increasing popularity of outsourcing academic works by university students motivated by the lure of lucrative dividends and visa opportunities. Due to a lack of formal methods in detecting such transactions, freelance websites are thriving in facilitating the trade of outsourced assignments. This is compounded by the fact that many university staff have neither the time nor training to perform complex media analysis and forensic investigations. This paper proposes a method to aid in the identification of those who outsource assignment works on the most popular site freelancer.com . We include a recent real-world case study to demonstrate the relevancy and applicability of our methodology. In this case study, a suspect attempts to evade detection via use of anti-forensics which demonstrates the capability and awareness of evasion techniques used by students.
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Monnik, M., Pan, L. (2014). Forensic Identification of Students Outsourcing Assignment Projects from Freelancer.com. In: Batten, L., Li, G., Niu, W., Warren, M. (eds) Applications and Techniques in Information Security. ATIS 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 490. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45670-5_17
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