Print Email Facebook Twitter PaDAWaNS: Proactive Domain Abuse Warning and Notification System Title PaDAWaNS: Proactive Domain Abuse Warning and Notification System Author Brands, Thijs (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science) Contributor Dörr, C. (mentor) Wullink, Maarten (mentor) van der Lubbe, J.C.A. (graduation committee) Tax, D.M.J. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Computer Science | Software Technology Date 2019-01-15 Abstract The counterfeit market is rapidly expanding into the online realm. Large amounts of fraudulent webshops advertise luxury clothing and fashion accessories, but ship counterfeit products to their customers. Apart from customers, brand owners and domain registries experience a negative impact caused by these fake webshops. Current countermeasures are slow and of a reactive nature, leaving a large enough window of opportunity for criminals to make a profit. This thesis introduces a proactive mitigation approach that can be deployed at domain registries. By predicting whether a newly registered domain will be used to sell counterfeit merchandise, preventive countermeasures can often be taken in advance, minimizing the criminals' window of opportunity and profits. These predictions are made by training a detection model using both registrant information and infrastructure measurements of the registered domains. To evaluate the prediction system, new domain registrations are classified for a period of 6 months. Registrations classified as malicious are then monitored for signs of abuse. Overall, the system is able to detect malicious registrations with reasonable precision. Additionally, the body of abusive domain registrations created during this thesis project is analyzed to gain insights into the methods used to host counterfeit webshops, which can be used as a starting point for future research. Subject fraud detectioncybersecurityInternet To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7c308b9f-37ff-43ac-bac3-58da4ad475a3 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2019 Thijs Brands Files PDF Thesis_public_version_.pdf 1.04 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:7c308b9f-37ff-43ac-bac3-58da4ad475a3/datastream/OBJ/view