Improving web spam classifiers using link structure
AIRWeb '07 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Adversarial information retrieval on the web
Transductive link spam detection
AIRWeb '07 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Adversarial information retrieval on the web
Know your neighbors: web spam detection using the web topology
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
LEET'08 Proceedings of the 1st Usenix Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats
Web spam identification through content and hyperlinks
AIRWeb '08 Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Adversarial information retrieval on the web
There is no free phish: an analysis of "free" and live phishing kits
WOOT'08 Proceedings of the 2nd conference on USENIX Workshop on offensive technologies
Re: CAPTCHAs: understanding CAPTCHA-solving services in an economic context
USENIX Security'10 Proceedings of the 19th USENIX conference on Security
Link spamming Wikipedia for profit
Proceedings of the 8th Annual Collaboration, Electronic messaging, Anti-Abuse and Spam Conference
Storage cost of spam 2.0 in a web discussion forum
Proceedings of the 8th Annual Collaboration, Electronic messaging, Anti-Abuse and Spam Conference
Autonomous link spam detection in purely collaborative environments
Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
PKI as part of an integrated risk management strategy for web security
EuroPKI'11 Proceedings of the 8th European conference on Public Key Infrastructures, Services, and Applications
PharmaLeaks: understanding the business of online pharmaceutical affiliate programs
Security'12 Proceedings of the 21st USENIX conference on Security symposium
Proceedings of the CUBE International Information Technology Conference
How much money do spammers make from your website?
Proceedings of the CUBE International Information Technology Conference
Spamming for science: active measurement in web 2.0 abuse research
FC'12 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security
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Web boards, blogs, wikis, and guestbooks are forums frequented and contributed to by many Web users. Unfortunately, the utility of these forums is being diminished due to spamming, where miscreants post messages and links not intended to contribute to forums, but to advertise their websites. Many such links are malicious. In this paper we investigate and compare automated tools used to spam forums. We analyze the functionality of the most popular forum spam automator, XRumer, in details and find that it can intelligently get around many practices used by forums to distinguish humans from bots, all while keeping the spammer hidden. Insights gained from our study suggest specific measures that can be used to block spamming by this automator.