DARKWEB + PYTHON: DISCOVER, ANALYZE AND EXTRACT INFORMATION FROM HIDDEN SERVICES

This is the code repository for DARKWEB + PYTHON: DISCOVER, ANALYZE AND EXTRACT INFORMATION FROM HIDDEN SERVICES

The talk will start explaining how Tor project can help us to the research and development of tools for online anonymity and privacy of its users while surfing the Internet, by establishing virtual circuits between the different nodes that make up the Tor network. In addition, we will review how Tor works from anonymity point of view, preventing websites from tracking you. Python help us to automate the process to search an discover hidden services thanks to packages like requests,requesocks and sockspy,At this point we will review the crawling process and show tools in python ecosystem available for this task.

These could be the talking points:

*Introduction to Tor project and hidden services

*Discovering hidden services.

*Modules and packages we can use in python for connecting with Tor network

*Tools that allow search hidden services and atomate the crawling process in Tor network

Tools:

Stem

https://stem.torproject.org

Requests

https://3.python-requests.org/

BeautifulSoup

https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/

Scripts execution

tor_descriptors.py

relay_connections.py

introduction_points.py

list_circuits.py

Videos scripts execution

Get information about Tor network with python stem

Search hidden services in dark web with python