ABSTRACT
The Dark Web is known as the part of the Internet oper-
ated by decentralized and anonymous-preserving protocols
like Tor. To date, the research community has focused on
understanding the size and characteristics of the Dark Web
and the services and goods that are offered in its under-
ground markets. However, little is still known about the
attacks landscape in the Dark Web.
For the traditional Web, it is now well understood how
websites are exploited, as well as the important role played
by Google Dorks and automated attack bots to form some
sort of “background attack noise” to which public websites
are exposed.
This paper tries to understand if these basic concepts and
components have a parallel in the Dark Web. In particular,
by deploying a high interaction honeypot in the Tor network
for a period of seven months, we conducted a measurement
study of the type of attacks and of the attackers behavior
that affect this still relatively unknown corner of the Web