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Cripplechan is a botnet
2016-05-07 21:47:19 Post No. 54432384
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Cripplechan is a botnet
Anonymous
2016-05-07 21:47:19
Post No. 54432384
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I recently enlightened a friend of mine as to the horrors of the botnet by showing him all the cookies his browser was storing. Some of them happened to be from cripplechan.
Specifically, I found these:
> FALSE / FALSE 1467396567 HIRO_COOKIE data=&newSession=false&id=2992347269535×tamp=1437260523294
> FALSE /v/ FALSE 1467256215 ninja_adm_uid cf74da5e-4bc9-72c3-cb9e-921d06fb6e33
> FALSE /v/res FALSE 1467256327 ninja_adm_uid cf74da5e-4bc9-72c3-cb9e-921d06fb6e33
One quick search on your friendly neighborhood cookie crawler later and I get these:
https://archive.is/ei4MU#selection-1313.0-1313.13
https://archive.is/cniWx#selection-1637.0-1637.14
>ads.yahoo.jp
>ib.adnxs.com
>adm.shinobi.jp
Going to shinobi.jp reveals that it's an advertising network from Japan:
>It explains the features in the cartoon of easy installation at that time most profitable us to display the high ad-free ad-serving tool "Ninja AdMax"!
Ninja AdMax leads to an advertising and analytics company called Samurai Factory, Inc. (https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_Factory)
For those of us who don't speak machine translate, they're basically Botnet Analytics but for Japan. This means that when my friend was going to cripplechan, all his visits were being tracked and added to a Japanese marketer's profile. (Yes, they're still being loaded and checked for by the site, I imported them into a test browser and checked with uMatrix.)
What was that about "transparency", again?
