INVESTIGATING ONLINE CRIME1
Q1. Consider a criminal group that is running a pharmaceutical affiliate program as we
discussed in Module 8. You've seen some of the things that can be done to automate the
gathering of information in large multi-domain investigations (such as in Mod 8 Lesson 3.) You
discover that Aleksandr Bolelov has been making counterfeit pharmaceutical websites since at
least August of 2012. (Here is a link to his Whoxy page:
https://www.whoxy.com/name/2193280). Explain how you would build a system that would
document all of the relevant evidence about these websites and store it for later use.
From the study above, it has been identified that a system needs to be created that would help
in automate the gathering of the information to formulate a larger multi domain investigation. The
idea behind the investigation program is to find out the counterfeit pharmaceutical website by
Aleksandr Bolelov since the last August 2012 1. The system would be created to help in the
documentation of the relevant evidences form the website and further store the information
accumulated about these websites for later use.
The system would be created in 3 states or phases as identified which would hold the process
of creating the system including the phases of identifying the scope of the investigation, expanding
the search to gather data from the website and refining the results of the findings2.
The first step would include the implementation of the WHOIS query that mostly helps as a
response protocol to query for the databases for storing the registered users or assigning the people
using a particular internet source. This would include the domain name, the autonomous system or the
IP address block. This can also be used for capturing the data about other information as well. The
WHOIS query would be used for the identifying the affiliated program. One email address would be
identified through the WHO IS data even for multiple domains and the historical WHOIS queries
1 Martens, Marijn, Ralf De Wolf, and Lieven De Marez. "Investigating and comparing the predictors of the
intention towards taking security measures against malware, scams and cybercrime in general." Computers in
Human Behavior 92 (2019): 139-150.
2 Oerlemans, Jan-Jaap. Investigating cybercrime. Diss. 2017.

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