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Today, @Redrum_of_Crows & I are publishing a network analysis looking at how 1291 Trump, Brexit & Russia-related domain names share ROUTE numbers (subnets). Pls click on the link below, download PDF to a desktop and view using Adobe Reader + text bookmarks https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A43748a9b-13f4-49c3-b2e8-9c3cd9d528b6
1/ If you would like some guidance on how to make the best use of this research and its limitations please read through this thread...
2/ The Table of Contents will help you to navigate this large file and kicks off with the most important sections... including an introduction, the methodology and our results. We've also outlined some technical concepts & ideas that will help you to engage with this work...
3/ INTRODUCTION
4/ INTRODUCTION continued... Domain name coverage, viewing the PDF and Appendices
5/ METHODOLOGY : Identify a) Trump, b) Brexit and c) Russia individuals, companies, campaigns associated with #TrumpRussiaBrexit; Identify related domain names and collect public Domain Name Server records from http://Robtex.com
6/ IDENTIFY public DOMAIN NAME SERVER "records" for target domain names using http://Robtex.com
7/ COLLECT public DOMAIN NAME SERVER (DNS) "records"
8/ STANDARDIZE DNS records (e.g. http://CambridgeAnalytica.net )
9/ SORT DNS records
RESULTS : CHARTING data using @cytoscape (v3.7.2) network analysis software
11/ NETWORK ANALYSIS (OVERVIEW) : 1291 domain names x ROUTE numbers (see Appendix 2 : High Resolution Master Network) #TrumpBrexitRussia
12/ NETWORK ANALYSIS (Zoomed in) : 1291 domain names x ROUTE numbers (see Appendix 2).
13/ NETWORK ANALYSIS : MINI-NETWORK for http://DEREVOMANIA.com (featuring http://WIKILEAKS.ORG and http://RUPTLY.RU )
14/ NETWORK ANALYSIS : MINI-NETWORKS (CHARACTERISTICS)
15/ CROSS-REFERENCING MINI-NETWORKS using focal domain names and bookmarks (e.g. http://FACEBOOK.COM )
16/ PRIORITY NETWORKS (1st, 2nd and 3rd)... in order to help anyone interested interested in using this research the following groups of focal domain names have been ranked 1st - 5th in terms of their possible interest:
17/ PRIORITY NETWORKS (4th)
18/ PRIORITY NETWORKS (5th)
19/ The following posts are designed to help you understand a little about the technical information included in Domain Name Server "records"...
20/ IP ADDRESSES (IPv4)
21/ IP ADDRESSES (IPv4) : Network Prefix, Host ID
22/ ROUTE numbers : RANGE OF IP ADDRESSES
CLASSLESS INTER-DOMAIN ROUTING (CIDR)
24/ ROUTE NUMBERS : SUBNET ADDRESS
25/ P.S. If you are struggling with any of these concepts, I recommend watching this video which explains things well for anyone who isn't half robot or geek. Acknowledgement to The Simple Engineer for one of the graphics used above...
26/ IP ADDRESSES (IPv6) : CIDR notation (IPv6)
27) INTERNET : ADDRESS HIERARCHY (simplified)
28/ ADDITIONAL ANNOTATIONS : it may help you to interpret specific networks if you annotate domain names with additional information about their: 1. PRINCIPLE OWNERS, 2) NATIONAL AFFINITIES, 3) PRIMARY SERVICES, 4) NEWS ARTICLES, 5) REFERENCES, 6) BEWARE of MALWARE!, etc
29/ VIEWING and USING this NETWORK ANALYSIS...
30/ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS...
31/ 1291 MINI-NETWORKS : You can download the full assessment here: https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A43748a9b-13f4-49c3-b2e8-9c3cd9d528b6. This includes i) an OVERVIEW NETWORK showing how all of the covered domain names share ROUTE numbers and ii) 1291 MINI-NETWORKS focused each domain name in turn...
32/ APPENDIX 1 : lists all of the DOMAIN NAMES included in this assessment... i) http://1individual.com - http://CLSHOLDINGS.net
37/ APPENDIX 2 : There is a high resolution OVERVIEW NETWORK covering all of the 1291 Domain names x their ROUTE numbers in the full assessment, but you can download just this PDF chart via... https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zSq0jMKnwJ9ol7LcWPJZf2WvqZqXmXXU/view?usp=sharing You can zoom in more if you download this to your computer.
This analysis is based on public information and has plenty of scope for enhancement and expansion. Please feel free to dig deeper, share your own expertise and add brain power. We don't have all the answers and are sharing this research in the public interest. #TrumpBrexitRussia
A sister analysis focused on the use of shared IP addresses by the same #TrumpBrexitRussia-related domain names was published in November 2019 and can be viewed here. More individual domain names have been separated out in the new ROUTE number assessment. https://twitter.com/mattprescott/status/1192003983033950213?s=19
