Dark Knowledge 😈📚 A curated library of research papers and presentations for counter-detection and web privacy enthusiasts. Year Title Topics Authors 2023 A Two-Step TLS-Based Browser fingerprinting approach using combinatorial sequences Fingerprint, TLS, Combinatorics Bernhard Garn, Stefan Zauner, Dimitris E. Simos, Manuel Leithner, Richard Kuhn, Raghu Kacker 2022 AudioContext Browser Fingerprinting AudioContext, ML, Device Verification, Device Identification Josef Frola 2022 Browser-based CPU Fingerprinting CPU Fingerprinting, Timing Attacks Leon Trampert, Christian Rossow, Michael Schwarz 2022 DRAWNAPART - A Device Identification Technique based on Remote GPU Fingerprinting 2022 Phish in Sheeps Clothing Exploring Pitfalls of Browser Fingerprinting 2022 SMS PVA - An Underground Service Enabling Threat Actors to Register Bulk Fake Accounts 2021 Device Fingerprinting with Peripheral Timestamps 2021 Fingerprinting in Style - Detecting Browser Extensions via Injected Style Sheets 2021 JA3cury - A New Approach to TLS Fingerprinting by Merging Fingerprinting Methods 2021 JARM Randomizer - Evading JARM Fingerprinting 2021 ML-CB - Machine Learning Canvas Block 2021 On Reliability of JA3 Hashes for Fingerprinting Mobile Applications 2021 OS Fingerprinting and Tethering Detection in Mobile Networks 2021 Tales of FAVICONS and Caches - Persistent Tracking in Modern Browsers 2021 The CNAME of the Game - Large-scale Analysis of DNS-based Tracking Evasion DNS Yana Dimova 2021 TypeNet - Deep Learning Keystrong Biometrics 2021 Your Phone is My Proxy - Detecting and Understanding Mobile Proxy Networks 2020 3d Red Pill - A Guest-to-Host Escape on QEMUKVM Virtio Devices 2020 Accurate TLS Fingerprinting using Destination Context and Knowledge Bases 2020 Awakening the Web’s Sleeper Agents - Misusing Service Workers for Privacy Leakage 2020 BeCAPTCHA-Mouse - Synthetic Mouse Trajectories and Improved Bot Detection 2020 Browser Fingerprint Standardization Using Rule Based Algorithm and Multi-Class Entropy 2020 Carnus - Exploring the Privacy Threats of Browser Extension Fingerprinting 2020 Characterizing Anomalies in Malware-Generated HTTP Traffic 2020 Clash of the Trackers - Measuring the Evolution of the Online Tracking Ecosystem 2020 Combining Behavioural Biometrics and Session Context Analytics to Enhance Risk Based Static Authentication in Web Applications 2020 Deobfuscation, Unpacking, And Decoding of Obfuscated Malicious JavaScript For Machine Learning Models Detection Performance Improvement 2020 Don’t count me out - On the relevance of IP addresses in the tracking ecosystem 2020 EssentialFP - Exposing the Essence of Browser Fingerprinting 2020 Fingerprinting the Fingerprinters - Learning to Detect Browser Fingerprinting Behaviors 2020 Fingerprinting With Atomic Counters in Upcoming Web Graphics Compute APIs 2020 FP-Crawlers - Studying the Resilience of Browser Fingerprinting to Block Crawlers 2020 FPSelect - Low-Cost Browser Fingerprints for Mitigating Dictionary Attacks against Web Authentication Mechanisms 2020 Guess Who - Large-Scale Data-Centric Study of the Adequacy of Browser Fingerprints for Web Authentication 2020 Inside The Black Box - A Glimpse Of Google’s Internal Data Free-For-All 2020 Leveraging Frequency Analysis for Deep Fake Image Recognition 2020 Neither Denied nor Exposed Fixing WebRTC 2020 Poking a Hole in the Wall - Censorship-Resistant Internet Communications by Parasitizing on WebRTC 2020 Remote physical device fingerprinting 2020 SenCAPTCHA - A Mobile-First CAPTCHA Using Orientation Sensors 2020 Taming the Shape Shifter - Detecting Anti-Fingerprinting Browsers 2020 Timeless Timing Attacks - Exploiting Concurrency to Leak Secrets over Remote Connections 2020 TLS Fingerprinting Techniques 2020 Using Generative Adversarial Networks to Break and Protect Text CAPTCHAs 2020 Using TLS Fingerprints for OS Identification in Encrypted Traffic 2020 Web Applications Security and Privacy 2020 Web Browser Privacy - What Do Browsers Say When They Phone Home 2020 Web Runner 2049 - Evaluating Third-Party Anti-Bot Services 2019 After You, Please - Browser Extensions Order Attacks and Countermeasures 2019 An Investigation on Information Leakage of DNS over TLS 2019 Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGAN 2019 Browser Fingerprinting - A Survey 2019 Browser Fingerprinting - Exploring Device Diversity to Augment Authentication and Build Client-Side Countermeasures 2019 Even Turing Should Sometimes Not Be Able To Tell - Mimicking Humanoid Usage Behavior for Exploratory Studies of Online Services 2019 Fourier Spectrum Discrepancies in Deep Network Generated Images 2019 From IP ID To Device ID and KASLR Bypass 2019 Hacking Google reCAPTCHA v3 using Reinforcement Learning 2019 Improving the Testing Efficiency of Selenium-based Load Tests 2019 JavaScript Template Attacks - Automatically Inferring Host Information for Targeted Exploits 2019 Leveraging WebAssembly for Numerical JavaScript Code Virtualization 2019 Monsters in the Middleboxes - Building Tools for Detecting HTTPS Interception 2019 Morelian Analysis for Browsers - Making Web Authentication Stronger with Canvas Fingerprinting 2019 Passive OS Fingerprinting by DNS Traffic Analysis 2019 Preventing Browser Fingerprinting by Randomizing Canvas 2019 Rendered Private - Making GLSL Execution Uniform to Prevent WebGL-based Browser Fingerprinting 2019 Resident Evil - Understanding Residential IP Proxy as a Dark Service 2019 SoK - In Search of Lost Time - A Review of JavaScript Timers in Browsers 2019 Talon - An Automated Framework for Cross-Device Tracking Detection 2019 The Generation and Use of TLS Fingerprints 2019 Tracking Versus Security - Investigating the Two Facets of Browser Fingerprinting 2019 VisibleV8 - In-browser Monitoring of JavaScript in the Wild 2018 Browser Fingerprinting - Exploring Device Diversity to Augment Authentification and Build Client-Side Countermeasures 2018 Clock Around the Clock - Time-Based Device Fingerprinting 2018 Detecting Social Spamming on Facebook Platform 2018 Evaluating Server-Side Internet Proxy Detection Methods 2018 Fingerprinting Mobile Browsers 2018 FP-STALKER - Tracking Browser Fingerprint Evolutions 2018 Hiding in The Crowd - An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Browser Fingerprinting At Large Scale 2018 JavaScript Zero - Real JavaScript and Zero Side-Channel Attacks 2018 Pride and Prejudice in Progressive Web Apps - Abusing Native App-like Features in Web Applications 2018 Rendered Insecure - GPU Side Channel Attacks are Practical 2018 Who Changed my Browser Settings 2018 Who Left Open the Cookie Jar - A Comprehensive Evaluation of Third-Party Cookie Policies 2017 (Cross-)Browser Fingerprinting via OS and Hardware Level Features 2017 DECANTeR - DEteCtion of Anomalous outbouNd HTTP TRaffic by Passive Application Fingerprinting 2017 Deterministic Browser 2017 Fantastic Timers and Where to Find Them - High-Resolution Microarchitectural Attacks in JavaScript 2017 FpRandom - Randomizing Core Browser Objects to Break Advanced Device Fingerprinting Techniques 2017 Most Websites Don’t Need to Vibrate - A Cost–Benefit Approach to Improving Browser Security 2017 The All Seeing Eye - Web to App Intercommunication for Session Fingerprinting in Android 2017 The Security Impact of HTTPS Interception 2017 Tracking You through DNS Traffic - Linking User Sessions by Clustering with Dirichlet Mixture Model 2016 A 1-million-site Measurement and Analysis 2016 Beauty and the Beast - Diverting Modern Web Browsers To Build Unique Browser Fingerprints 2016 Browser Fingerprinting - Hraska 2016 Cloud Fingerprinting - Using Clock Skews To Determine Co-Location of Virtual Machines 2016 I Am Robot - (Deep) Learning to Break Semantic Image CAPTCHAs 2016 I’m not a human - Breaking the Google reCAPTCHA 2016 Picasso - Lightweight Device Class Fingerprinting For Web Clients 2016 The Security of WebRTC 2016 Trusted Browsers For Uncertain Times 2016 Tunneling for Transparency A Large-Scale Analysis of End-to-End Violations in the Internet 2016 Web browser fingerprinting a framework for measuring the web browser 2015 Deterministically Deterring Timing Attacks in Deterland 2015 FpGuard - Detection and Prevention of Browser Fingerprinting 2015 Mitigating browser fingerprint tracking 2015 Network-based HTTPS Client Identification Using SSL TLS Fingerprinting 2015 The Clock is Still Ticking - Timing Attacks in the Modern Web 2015 Tick Tock - Building Browser Red Pills from Timing Side Channels 2015 You Are How You Query - Deriving Behavioral Fingerprints From DNS Traffic 2014 Markov Chain Fingerprinting to Classify Encrypted Traffic 2014 Mobile Device Identification Via Sensor Fingerprinting 2014 The Web Never Forgets - Persistent Tracking Mechanisms in The Wild 2013 Cookieless Monster - Exploring the Ecosystem of Web-based Device Fingerprinting 2013 Mitigating Access-Driven Timing Channels in Clouds using StopWatch 2013 WebGL Programming Guide 2012 Combining Mouse and Keystroke Dynamics Biometrics for Risk Based Authentication in Web Environments 2012 Pixel Perfect - Fingerprinting Canvas in HTML5 2010 On the Reliability of Wireless Fingerprinting using Clock Skews 2009 Cache Missing For Fun and Profit 2008 An Improved Clock-skew Measurement Technique for Revealing Hidden Services
