Research Article

CBR-Based Decision Support Methodology for Cybercrime Investigation: Focused on the Data-Driven Website Defacement Analysis

Table 3

Characteristics and metadata of several different clusters derived from the clustering processing.

Cluster numberRatio (%)DescriptionRepresentative hacker (group)

07.84The group uses Central European languages. They principally attacked against the profit organization and Linux-based OS in Western Europe.JaMaYcKa, Super2li

18.16The group uses Arabic and Cyrillic. They principally attacked against the organization that manages the network and Linux-based and Unix-based OS. Their attack region is distributed throughout Southern Europe, South America, Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia.BI0S

210.36The group uses Central European languages. They principally attacked against the organization that manages the network and nonprofit organizations in Western Europe.JaMaYcKa

39.33The group uses Central European languages. They principally attacked against the profit organization and Windows-based OS in Western Europe.1923Turk

425.36The group uses Arabic and Chinese. They principally attacked against the profit organization and Windows-based OS in Western Europe.EL_MuHaMMeD, federal-atack.org

51.73The group uses Central European languages. They principally attacked against the profit organization and Unix-based OS in Southern Europe and Eastern Europe.d3b∼X, SuSKuN

65.24The group uses Central European languages. They principally attacked against the profit organization, the educational institution, the government and state agencies, and also Windows-based OS in East Asia.1923Turk

715.93The group uses Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. They principally attacked against the profit organization and Linux-based OS in Western Europe.Rya, iskorpitx

89.11The group uses Central European languages. They principally attacked against the profit organization and Windows-based OS in Western Europe.1923Turk

93.63The group uses Central European languages. They principally attacked against the profit organization and Linux-based OS in South America and Eastern Europe.Hmei7

101.39The group uses Central European languages. They principally attacked against Windows-based OS in South America and Southeast Asia. Their attack target is mostly the educational institution and the government and state agencies.BHS, F4keLive

111.92The group uses Arabic and Central European languages. They principally attacked against the profit organization and Windows-based OS in Southern Europe.EL_MuHaMMeD, linuXploit_cre