Shadow Market of Malware: Actor-Network Analysis

Theme of the diploma project: "Shadow market of malware: the actor-network analysis" The volume of the diploma project is 109 pages, it contains 18 figures, 1 table and 70 sources of literature. Key words: Darknet, shadow markets, malware, actor-network theory, theory of shadow markets. The object of research of the diploma project is the shadow segment of the Internet - Darknet. The subject of the research is the structure of Darknet, its actors and principles of functioning in general, and the trading platforms of malicious software in the shadow segment of the Internet in particular. The diploma project consists of an introduction, two chapters and a conclusion. In the introduction, the relevance of the chosen topic, the degree of the problem's development, the theoretical and practical novelty of the work are justified; the goal and tasks of the research are formulated, the object and the subject are indicated, and the research hypothesis is formed. The first chapter is devoted to the substantiation of the theories chosen for analysis, as well as to the analysis of theoretical literature on the topic. The second chapter provides a comprehensive analysis of Darknet based on data parsing. The conclusion contains the main findings and assumptions of the further development of the shadow markets.